Dr. David Burress, University of Kansas Researcher:

"Maintenance of roads is the most important thing in a highway program. It isn't building roads. Most of the money goes to maintenance or preservation or keeping what you have and if you don't keep what you have, you're gonna be in a lot of trouble."

Norman Nelson, Norton County Resident:

"I guarantee you, bar none, Kansas has the best roads of all we travel on. We're always happy when we get back to Kansas because we know they're going to be smooth. We're going to be able to get to where we want to go without any problems."