Thompson on right road at WisDOT

If you’re looking for a sign of the need for more road money in Wisconsin, here it is: The Wisconsin Department of Transportation recently sought applications from local governments for one-time grants to improve infrastructure.

The DOT made a total of $75 million available. Individual grants are capped at $3.5 million a project.

So how many applications did WisDOT receive? A total of 1,600 eligible applications.

The total sought: $1.4 billion. Goodness knows, we’d love to see some of that grant money come to western Wisconsin...

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Ken Notes: Communities have been deferring these projects for a while now so it logical that there a number of them in the hopper. What we need to develop is a state scoring system so that we can fund those with the highest priority. For the record most communities already have this system in place.