The Wisconsin Department of Transportation plans to use about $210 million worth of federal aid to close a budget deficit caused by COVID-19 and spend more on local roads and highway rehabilitation.

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President Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, was headed down a smooth path to quick confirmation, pledging to senators on Thursday to work with them to carry out the administration's ambitious goal of rebuilding the country's infrastructure.

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The massive COVID-19 relief bill passed by Congress on Monday promises to help Wisconsin's transportation fund cope revenue shortfalls brought on by the pandemic even as it provides tax relief to businesses that took out a Paycheck Protection loan earlier this year.

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Most think-tank pundits are well aware of the likelihood that their best recommendations are likely to take years, if not decades, to bear fruit. So Robert Poole of the Reason Foundation, an organization that seeks to apply free-market answers to ...

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As is true for so many aspects of modern life, the coronavirus pandemic hasn’t so much revealed weaknesses in the state’s transportation as made long-recognized faults even more apparent.

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Americans are slowly getting back on the road after hunkering down in response to the coronavirus, although traffic numbers are still well below what they were before many states issued stay-at-home orders.

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As people hunker down at home, with few places to go but the grocery store, congestion has all but disappeared from our highways and freeways.

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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that she is working on an alternative roads plan to promote in her second year in office after the Legislature rejected a proposed 45-cents-a-gallon fuel tax increase, but she did not release details.

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Republican legislative leaders announced Monday that they will work to enact a state budget without including a long-term funding plan to repair the state's deteriorating roads.

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A top Democratic lawmaker says Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's proposed 45-cents-a-gallon fuel tax increase is dead, and proposals such as raising the corporate income tax and taxing heavy trucks must be considered.

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