Infrastructure

In 2015 the Reform Majority overhauled the transportation funding model to remove politics from infrastructure funding decisions.

The Reform Majority also ended the quarter-century old, annual raid on gas tax revenue in the Highway Fund by eliminating $216 million in transfers.

The result: $1.6 billion more for better roads and bridges.

Funding was then increased funding for the Strategic Transportation Investment (STI) law by $230 million over the next two years, bringing the net appropriation level to almost $3 billion over the biennium.  Other transportation improvements include:

• More than $23 million over the next two years in railroad infrastructure.

• Almost $530 million over the next two years in the Bridge Program. We are now under 10% deficient bridges for the first time in our state’s history.

• Provided $11 million to improve our state’s ports.