A transportation lobby group is raising concerns about what it sees as a looming funding crisis for the Missouri Transportation Department (MoDOT). The Missouri Transportation and Development Council (MTD), a division of Associated Industries of Missouri (AIM), says it’s great that the General Assembly fully funded MoDOT for the 2009 fiscal year, but the MTD expresses concern about big funding problems down the road.
MTD’s Christen Jackson says MoDOT’s construction program will drop from $1.23-billion in 2008 to an annual program of $569-million in 2010, putting the state where it was before Amendment 3 was passed, ending the diversion transportation dollars.
MTD is expressing disappointment that a legislative proposal that would have allowed 10 percent of the state’s general revenue growth to go toward the State Road Fund and the State Transportation Fund never cleared the General Assembly.
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