During the 2023-2025 Biennial Budget Message, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers announced infrastructure initiatives to ensure Wisconsin's infrastructure is up to date, and ready to handle the challenges of the 21st Century.
Governor Evers aims to make critical investments into updated infrastructure, access to reliable, high-speed internet, and improve Wisconsins's roads, bridges, and highways.
During his first term, Evers invested in and improved over 5,800 miles of roads and nearly 1,600 bridges. Evers is proposing to make the largest investment in high-speed internet in state history to ensure the state is meeting broadband goals by the end of 2025.
The funding for these projects go directly toward helping local counties and communities repair and maintain local roads.
Evers is also proposing a push in order to build out electric vehicle infrastructure, prevent reckless driving, and bolster the supply chain while also using a portion of the state’s surplus to pay down state debt in transportation revenue bonds, ensuring less taxpayer money is being used to pay debt in order to focus on road improvements and maintenance.
“Giving working families a little extra breathing room is just one key part of our plan to bolster the middle class, maintain our economy’s momentum, reduce barriers to work, and address our state’s workforce challenges. But we have a lot of work to do together to keep building our economy from the ground up," said Governor Evers. “Let’s start with making sure our infrastructure is prepared to support a workforce and economy of the 21st Century. No administration in state history has done more to expand access to high-speed internet than we have. We’ve allocated more than $340 million to ensure more than 390,000 homes and businesses will have new or improved, reliable, high-speed internet. That’s a big deal, folks."
The governor's transportation budget proposes 2 new funding sources for the state's transportation fund and utilizing federal funding to further build out Wisconsin’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
To see a full list of initiatives, click here.
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Source: State of Wisconsin
