Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), announced in a recent press release that municipalities across the state received more than $138 million in the first quarterly payments for 2024 for general transportation, connecting highway, and expressway policing aids.
For calendar year 2024, local governments will receive more than $536 million in general transportation aids financial assistance to support transportation-related projects, a 2% increase over calendar year 2023 allocations. Total funding for all local programs makes up almost one-third of the state transportation budget.
The first quarter payments, made in January, totaled $138,679,668.93 and included:
- General transportation aids of $134,164,869.44 to local units of government;
- Connecting highway aids of $4,258,824.49 to 116 eligible municipalities; and
- Expressway policing aids of $255,975.00 to Milwaukee County.
