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Transportation Board, which sets the state’s transportation budget, will use about $230 million in newly appropriated funds to pay off more debt, which frees up more money for planned construction.
Before the state budget was approved, the transportation board was expecting to cut nearly half of the funding for planned road construction projects. Increased maintenance requirements and the rapidly
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