Kansas transportation officials want to help local governments pay for repairs to bridges. “This is really to address what I consider one of the big issues that will be coming to our state in the coming decades, and that is the backlog of bridges on the local system that will need to be addressed,” said Calvin Reed, acting secretary of the Kansas Department of Transportation. … Through a new federal program in the bipartisan infrastructure law, Kansas has been allocated $45 million a year to address bridges. State officials decided the best way to spend the money is on local bridges. But local officials won’t actually get the federal money, Reed said. Instead, KDOT is doing an internal funds swap, with the state agency using the federal money on state-owned bridges while displacing an equal amount of state funds to go to the local bridge improvement program.
Source: Salina Journal
