State Spending On Maintenance Inadequate?; Funding Rises for Road Construction, but Officials Say Safety Will End Up Being Reduced

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MILWAUKEE (AP) - As lawmakers increased funding for road projects over the past 15 years, they've allowed the maintenance program to wane while collecting more contributions from road builders, a newspaper reported.

That has alarmed counties because they do most of the road work for the state, Marathon County Administrator Mort McBain told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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State Spending On Maintenance Inadequate?; Funding Rises for Road Construction, but Officials Say Safety Will End Up Being Reduced

"The road builders donate money to the Legislature, and the counties don't," he said. "They quite often get what they want, and the counties don...

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