Quarterly payments come in for local road projects
Gov. Tony Evers, together with the WisDOT, announced that counties and municipalities across the state, received over $141 million in the first quarterly payments for 2025, for general transportation, connecting highway and expressway policing aids. The funding goes to local governments, to construct, repair and improve, local streets and roads, ensuring Wisconsinites have the safe, reliable and strong local infrastructure, in communities across the state.
“We’re working to fix the darn roads, and I’m proud we’ve improved more than 8,600 miles of roads and more than 2,000 bridges across the state, since I took office,” said Evers. “Thanks to the historic efforts I’ve signed into law as governor to restore and bolster our statewide infrastructure, we’re helping ensure our local communities have the support to keep our roads in good repair, to keep folks safe, support our local economies and ensure Wisconsin has the 21st-century infrastructure folks expect, and deserve.”
For calendar year 2025, local governments will receive more than $540 million in general transportation aids, for financial assistance to support transportation-related projects. The 2023-25 budget signed by Evers, provided a two percent increase for general transportation aids for municipalities and counties, in calendar years 2024 and 2025.
The investments in the 2023-25 state budget resulted in the largest amount of funding for the program in the state’s history, and funding for all local programs makes up almost one-third of the state transportation budget.
Quarterly payments for cities, villages and towns, are made in four installments, the first Monday in January, April, July and October. County payments are made in three installments, with 25 percent of the annual payment made the first Monday in January; 50 percent the first Monday in July; and 25 percent the first Monday in October.
“Our local roads are the first and last mile of nearly every trip Wisconsin’s residents, businesses and visitors make,” said WisDOT secretary Kristina Boardman. “Whether you’re commuting home from work, delivering a product to a doorstep or visiting one of our many tourism destinations, a safe and efficient network of local roads is critical to our quality of life, and strength of our economy.”
