WTBA poll: 64 percent oppose transfers from transportation fund
A poll of 400 Wisconsin residents shows 64 percent oppose using transportation funds for non-transportation spending.
Gov. Jim Doyle has proposed taking $243 million from the transportation fund to help plug a $525 million budget deficit the state faces this biennium. Doyle's plan wold backfill the borrowing with bonding. The Assembly and Senate budget adjustment plans did not include the transportation fund transfer.
Thirty-one percent of those polled responded that taking money from the fund was OK, as long as it was repaid.
The poll, commissioned by the Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association, was conducted March 27 through April 2.
See the press release and poll question here.
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