By AP/KWMU
Jefferson City, MO. – Missouri's transportation chief says things are getting smoother on the state's roads.
Pete Rahn used his State of Transportation speech today to tout the largest highway construction program ever undertaken by the state's Department of Transportation.
But he also says people need to start thinking now about ways to boost highway funding in the future.
Under the department's current five-year program, it's spending an average of more than $1.4 billion a year on roads and bridges.
But by 2010, that will drop to just $800 million a year.
Rahn offered no recommendations about how Missouri should come up with additional money for roads.