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Governor Rick Snyder is calling for a funding plan that would provide $1.2 billion annually for local and state road repairs. The governor and MDOT executive director Kirk Stuedle met for a roundtable discussion Friday, calling attention to Michigan’s crumbling infrastructure. Steudle says they both understand that all of Michigan’s roads need help, including ones in northern Michigan.
Governor Snyder’s plan would eliminate the current per-galleon fuel tax and replace it with a wholesale fuel tax that would gradually increase over three years. Sixty percent of the revenue would go to local municipalities for roads and bridges. Revenues would increase to 73% by 2018. Snyder says the roads have been in bad shape for long enough.
Michigan’s gas tax was last increased in 1997. More information on Governor Snyder’s road plan, click here.
