SALEM, Ore. — Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has signed a long-delayed transportation funding measure that provides enough revenue to stave off major cuts at the Oregon Department of Transportation as well as county and city transportation departments.

The signing was announced Monday morning along with the release of a signing letter , although the letter says she signed the bill on Friday.

The bill includes a 6-cent gas tax hike, plus various DMV fee hikes and a mandatory pay-per-mile program for electric and high-efficiency vehicles intended to offset lower gas tax payments, and a revised weight-mile tax system to address overpayments by truckers. The package will raise $4.3 billion in new funding over 10 years, mostly for road maintenance.

"This bill helps us to keep state highways and

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