WFYI By VIOLET COMBER-WILEN September 1, 2023
How are rural roads evaluated and maintained? Several listeners inspired this question.
Jamie Palmer is a senior policy analyst at the Indiana University Public Policy Institute. Palmer co-authored an analysis of rural roads and bridges which looked at how increased state funding affected this infrastructure.
She said it looked at how two major contributors – the state’s gas tax and a grant program – affected rural road and bridge conditions
“One thing the General Assembly did that was awesome is they created the Community Crossing Grant program,” she said. “And so that gave smaller places the chance to sort of get a few more resources to upgrade what they were doing.”
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