Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers recognizes the importance of infrastructure investment to his state, but he expressed concerns about one funding strategy recently implemented in nearby states.
"I am very much opposed to a gas tax (increase)," Stivers, CSG 2018 national chair, told attendees Jan. 18 at the Kentuckians for Better Transportation conference in Lexington, Kentucky. "I am very much for building roads because roads bring jobs and opportunity, but it's not going to be on an antiquated tax system that we currently have in place. … You're going to have to come up with a different structure where you're capturing use on the road, not gallons burned, because that is going to continue to be the shrinking base."