Wisconsin will get a record amount of leftover federal highway funds, but it’s only one fifth of what the D-O-T requested. The agency says it will get 66-million dollars this fall in “redistribution aid” — funds originally assigned to other states but not spent. Wisconsin got almost twice what it received in the past, but it’s only a fraction of the 341-million dollars it asked for. The D-O-T hoped to get the extra money to help cover a one-billion dollar shortfall in its funding for scheduled highway work — and Governor Scott Walker and G-O-P state lawmakers hoped it would reduce what the state will borrow for road construction. Assembly G-O-P finance chair John Nygren says 66-million won’t cut it — and his panel is expected to try and set a highway funding package on Tuesday, after disputes on road money have held up approval of the state budget for two months.
State DOT To Get Record Road Aid, But Not What It Wanted
Sep 1, 2017 | 8:43 AM