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Commissioner raises data problems showing South Mississippi received more resurfacing miles than North over past decade
Summary
A commissioner told the Transportation Commission that, after reworking flawed spreadsheets, South Mississippi received roughly 152 additional lane miles of paving per year from 2013–2023 compared with North Mississippi, creating a 1,500‑mile cumulative difference that needs remedying; commissioners discussed a follow‑up work session.
A commissioner at the Mississippi Transportation Commission meeting on Oct. 15, 2025, pressed staff for better data after finding what he said were errors in earlier datasets and calculations that understating differences in road reconditioning between North and South Mississippi.
"For six years, I've been mentioning the North Mississippi is 1,500 miles short of good roads than Southern Mississippi," the commissioner said, adding he had reworked the agency data and found errors such as blank columns, duplicate entries and incomplete 2024 project completions. "I want to see the data. But we got the data.…
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