Report estimates up to $3.9B funding gap for Michigan roads, floats tax increase

Michigan has an annual funding gap of roughly $2.1 billion to $3.9 billion when it comes to money to maintain the state's crumbling roads and bridges — even after record federal aid and state bonding is taken into account, according to a new study of the state's infrastructure costs. And the options for filling that gap are less than savory, with one option exceeding a tax increase proposal from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that was soundly rejected four years ago. The funding gap is based on new assessments that put Michigan's...