road funding

Local leaders are celebrating a bipartisan bill sent to Gov. Mike Braun's desk that would provide more funding for Indianapolis infrastructure while making significant modifications to other funding methods.

A House committee unanimously advanced a bill Monday that aims to address Indiana’s road funding needs — but not before eliminating multiple provisions that would have generated new revenue.

Indiana House Roads and Transportation Committee Chair Jim Pressel (R-Rolling Prairie) proposed a bill Monday that provides a variety of new or expanded options for state and local road funding.

A long-term plan for funding Indianas roads is still to come, after a legislative task force dedicated to developing that plan wrapped up the first half of its work Wednesday.

A number of measures passed by Indiana lawmakers during the 2023 session will impact Indianapolis and Marion County.

A fix to the road funding formula in Marion County is moving through the state legislature. The measure includes three townships in the total county population.

The additional funding will allow the Department of Public Works to address some of the worst roads in Marion County.

The grants, announced last week, benefit 218 government entities chosen after they submitted applications in January for a call for projects.

Indiana first awarded the local road funding grants in 2016. Larger counties, cities and towns must match 50 percent of the money the state sends, while smaller communities only have to come up with 25 percent.

A recently discovered error in the state's road-funding distribution formula means officials will shift millions of dollars to the city of Indianapolis at the expense of other cities and towns.