State funding for public transit faces cut in proposed budget
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Missouri's state transportation spending reached high levels, bolstered by federal biills. Now, Gov. Mike Kehoe has proposed cutting state transportation spending from $6.7 million to $1.7 million, an 85% reduction.
A bar chart showing the history of Missouri's spending on public transit from 2000-2026. It mostly plateaus around $4 million in the 2000s, falls to under $1 million in the 2010s, before rising to over $10 million in the early 2020s. A proposed value for 2026 is just under $2 million.
