MAPPED: The sorry state of America's roads

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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio finishes filling a pothole in the Maspeth section of Queens, New York February 20, 2014.

• Infrastructure remains a major topic of debate in Washington, DC and across the country.
• Deutsche Bank's Torsten Sløk circulated a map illustrating how road quality varies across the 50 states.

Infrastructure remains a contentious topic in American discourse. Large swaths of the nation's roads, airports, power and water systems, and public transit facilities are in a sad state of disrepair, and the political debate over how to go about addressing the problem is a central theme in Washington.

One of the most visible parts of the United States' infrastructure - the quality of the roads Americans drive on every day - varies widely across the country.

Deutsche Bank's Torsten Sløk circulated a map showing road quality in each US state, based on U.S. News' ranking of states' road infrastructure. The darker states had a higher proportion of major roads in poor condition in 2016:

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As Sløk pointed out, Northeastern states like New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts fared poorly in the ranking. U.S. News noted that the proportion of poor quality roads ranged from 4% in Georgia to around half in California and Rhode Island.