League of Women Voters calls for more state transportation dollars to stay in counties that generate them; calls for end of rural subsidy : Post-Dispatch

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Moore encouraged legislators to consider legislation that would 90 percent of gas and auto sales taxes paid by any given county be required to be spent in that county. . . .

Moore cited figures showing that Missouri spends the vast majority of its transportation funding in the rural areas of the state, even though more than 80 percent of the state's transportation dollars from gas and auto sales taxes come from the urban regions in and around St. Louis and Kansas City.

Those tipped scales toward the rural areas have led to a situation where Missouri has the nation's seventh largest in-state highway system, though its only 18th in population. As a result, Moore said, Missouri is overfunding a network of rural roads that's far larger than needed for the state, while neglected roads and bridges in urban areas.

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League of Women Voters calls for more state transportation dollars to stay in counties that generate them; calls for end of rural subsidy : Post-Dispatch

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