Funding Crisis
Challenge – Needs vs. Funding

Current transportation revenues provided by all levels of government – federal, state, and local – are not enough to maintain the nation’s transportation systems or to develop an infrastructure to levels that best serve the nation’s economy.

To learn more about why funding for total roadway reconstruction is needed, click here to watch MoDOT’s Life Cycle of a Highway video.

Needs:

• Deteriorating infrastructure
  • Interstate bridges exceeding life expectancy must be reconstructed
  • Bridges are outdated and failing
• Congestion is increasing

Funding:

$225 billion needed annually. Declining Revenue Sources include:

• Federal Highway Trust Fund bankrupt two years in a row
• Current U.S. transportation spending meets only
  40 percent of needs
• U.S. Funding Gap for transportation is widening

Transportation Funding Gap