Highway Funding: “When You Start Talking $160 Million, There’s an Incentive to Do Something”
State Senators Bob Onder and Joseph Keaveny discussed the results of the 2015 legislative session at a recent Show-Me Institute Policy Breakfast. Highway funding in Missouri was a major topic. The senators expressed a couple of views that are fortunately becoming more and more the consensus among policymakers: 1. Something will have to be done soon, and probably next year; 2. The solution will likely be some type of fuel tax increase or tolling.
Watch the senators handle questions on transportation funding in the video below: