A village main street in Western New York, the kind of local route where more transportation work is now concentrated.

What $73 Million in Withheld Highway Funds Actually Means for Western New York

On April 16, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced it was withholding $73,502,543 in federal highway funding from New York State over a dispute about how the state’s DMV issued commercial driver’s licenses. Most of the coverage has focused on the political fight between Albany and Washington. That’s not what this post is about. …