So your second chart has MA with a higher percentage of unacceptable roads but a slightly lower cost per driver...but I think the methods here probably dont capture everything. I also suspect it's somewhat difficult to make direct comparisons for the simple fact that Texas is much much larger, with huge swaths of little to no population and a large network of dirt roads, that while crappy, are only being used by farmers. At any rate, I am aware I'm just offering an anecdote here, but I've driven a lot in all these places, as has my wife, and we are constantly in awe of the number of skull rattling pot holes and rusty, run down, crumbling bridges here.