Gov. Evers, WisDOT Announce Over $145 Million in Quarterly Transportation Aids to Fix Roads and Improve Local Infrastructure

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), today announced counties and municipalities across the state received more than $145 million in fourth quarter 2025 payments for General Transportation, Connecting Highway, and Expressway Policing Aids to repair, maintain, and improve local roads and connecting highways. The funding is provided by the 2023-25 Biennial Budget signed into law by Gov. Evers, which resulted in the largest amount of funding for the GTA program in the state’s history. This closes out the final payments for calendar year 2025, totaling more than $540 million to local governments to support projects to improve or repair Wisconsin’s roads and highways and make them safer for drivers.

“We’ve fought hard to secure historic increases in local transportation funding that our communities need to ensure Wisconsinites have the safe, quality roads that they expect and deserve,” said Gov. Evers. “Since Day One, my administration and I have made it a priority to fix the darn roads, and today, Wisconsinites could drive from Wausau to Disney World and back three times on the number of miles of roads fixed since 2019. We continue to work in earnest to ensure our communities have the resources they need to meet basic and unique needs alike.”

The bipartisan 2025-27 Biennial Budget, signed by Gov. Evers in July, built upon the governor’s and the Evers Administration’s good work by continuing to invest in the state’s transportation infrastructure with $1.1 billion in new funding for key transportation investments, including increasing the state’s GTA program by another three percent in each year of the biennium. All told, the most recent state budget provided municipalities with $33.2 million more over the next two years and counties with nearly $10 million over the next two years.

“The path to economic success for our state and improved quality of life for Wisconsinites starts on our local system,” said WisDOT Secretary Kristina Boardman. “Whether you’re a trucking company delivering a load of goods, or a parent picking up your child from school, local roads are the first and last mile of nearly everyone’s drive. In partnership with Gov. Evers, WisDOT is committed to doing everything it can to support safe and efficient infrastructure at the local level. Increased investment in the General Transportation Aids program demonstrates that commitment.”

The fourth quarter payments, delivered on Oct. 6, totaled $145,862,991 and included:

• General Transportation Aids (GTA): $136,848,241 to local units of government;
• Connecting Highway Aids (CHA): $4,258,775 to eligible municipalities; and
• Expressway Policing Aids (EPA): $4,755,975 to Milwaukee County.

General Transportation Aids help cover the costs of constructing, maintaining, and operating roads and streets under local jurisdiction. Connecting Highway Aids reimburse municipalities for maintenance and traffic control of certain state highways within municipalities. Expressway Policing Aids help the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department with the costs of patrolling expressways within the county.

Quarterly payments for cities, villages, and towns are issued on the first Monday in January, April, July, and October. County payments are disbursed in three installments, with 25 percent of the total annual payment on the first Monday in January; 50 percent on the first Monday in July; and 25 percent on the first Monday in October.

A complete list of fourth-quarter payments is available here.

ADDITIONAL INVESTMENTS IN THE 2025-27 BIENNIAL BUDGET TO SUPPORT WISCONSIN’S TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE

After years of neglect under the previous administration, Gov. Evers has made fixing Wisconsin’s roads and bridges and making sure the state’s infrastructure can meet the needs of a 21st-century workforce and a 21st-century economy a top priority. Since 2019, under his administration, the state has improved more than 8,600 miles of roads and 2,000 bridges statewide. In fact, Wisconsinites could drive from Wausau, Wisconsin, to Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and back three times on the number of miles of roads fixed. In each of his biennial budgets, Gov. Evers has secured historic investments in Wisconsin’s transportation infrastructure, and improving Wisconsin’s roads and bridges continued to be a priority for the governor in the 2025-27 Biennial Budget.

In addition to securing a three percent increase in General Transportation Aids, the final 2025-27 Biennial Budget signed by Gov. Evers includes:

• A historic increase of nearly $333 million over the biennium in the state highway rehabilitation program;
• $100 million for the Local Roads Improvement Program;
• Continuing support for the Agricultural Roads Improvement Program, created by Gov. Evers in the 2023-25 biennium, with a $150 million investment to continue repairing and improving Wisconsin’s rural roads to help farmers and producers and the state’s agricultural and forestry industries move products to market safely and efficiently, including $30 million specifically targeted to bridge and culvert repair;
• $244.5 million to keep key projects, such as I-41 and I-39/90, on schedule;
• A 10 percent increase to paratransit aids, increasing funding by $687,600 over the biennium;
• Improving safety on Milwaukee County expressways with $38 million in expressway policing aids; and
• $50 million for the harbor assistance program, including $15 million for the Menominee Harbor Project and $20 million for the Port of Green Bay.

The 2025-27 Biennial Budget also improves ongoing transportation fund revenues by generating nearly $200 million in additional revenue to improve the sustainability of the transportation fund.

In addition to robust investments in transportation infrastructure statewide, the final 2025-27 Biennial Budget invests in local communities to ensure that they are able to address the unique needs of their constituents and bolster local infrastructure, including $14 million through municipal service payments to ensure local communities have the resources they need to meet basic and unique needs alike.

Gov. Evers also exercised his broad, constitutional veto authority to partially veto aspects of the budget that were outside of the bipartisan budget negotiations. More information about the bipartisan budget signed by Gov. Evers is available here.

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.