Constitutional Amendment Would Send More State Funds To Local Roads

1000 Friends of Wisconsin, an environmental and land use policy organization, is promoting a statewide referendum that would amend the state constitution to direct half of all state gas tax and vehicle fee collections to local roads, as they make up about 90% of the Wisconsin roadway system but get only about 30% of the funding: major highways eat up most of these revenues.

That sort of redistribution would take the pressure of local property taxes, and add ome balance to the state transportation system.

An interesting idea. We'll follow it, and you can see the group's powerpoint on the idea, here.