Michigan’s roads and bridges are expected to get a long-requested funding boost.

State lawmakers included additional annual road funding streams exceeding $1 billion when they passed the Fiscal Year 2026 spending plan late last week.

The deal, hailed as the largest transportation funding increase in decades, reconfigures tax revenue without raising taxes at the pump.

Below are five takeaways from the adopted spending plan and its effects on the state’s transportation budget. MLive has a more detailed story on road funding, here .

A historic funding increase

The new road funding package is expected to generate approximately $1.1 billion in new revenue for the transportation budget in Fiscal Year 2026, a figure that could grow to over $1.8 billion annually by 2029.

Lawmakers reache

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