Posted: 06.29.2010

 More than two dozen business and
transportation groups have formed a coalition to push a
constitutional amendment that would require money in the state's
transportation fund be used only for transportation.

The Finding Forward Coalition says transfers from the fund to
help balance perennial state budget deficits has hurt the state's
infrastructure, jeopardizing commerce and costing jobs.
The Legislative Fiscal Bureau calculates the transportatioin
fund has lost about $307 million through transfers over the last
four biennial budgets.

Wisconsin is in line to receive about $529 million in federal
stimulus dollars for highway and bridge improvements, but coalition
members say that's one-time money.

A spokesman for Gov. Jim Doyle, who has signed all four of the
last budgets, had no immediate comment.

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