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The new state budget puts a lot more money into repairing New York’s tattered roads and bridges and creates a new program to repair city streets and fill potholes.
For politicians, highway money is a big deal because that’s how most people get around, driving their motor vehicles on roads. The new budget adds $350 million to what was spent last year and much of it can be spent immediately.
State Senate Transportation Committee Chairman Tim Kennedy said a new program is the $100 million bridge and highway program for localities called City Touring Roads. City Touring Roads is going to allow for funding specifically designed to help with our aging infrastructure in our cities, like Buffalo and other Upstate cities, that really get hit hard with that inclement weather, year in and year out, Kennedy said. This is a new program. It’s never been done before. It’s just the beginning of millions and millions of dollars flowing to our community.