Or perhaps they're realizing that, as EVs become more popular, the roads still need to be maintained and want to get ahead of the problem.
- 2½¢/gallon to the State Construction Account Fund.
- $420,000/month for boating safety
- $350,000/month to improve railroad crossings
- A "sufficient" amount to legal fees
- A "sufficient" amount for the administrator and supervisor
- $30 million/year for vehicle inspection
- "Amounts ordered paid by the Court of Claims"
- Fuel tax payments to other states
Then, of what's left...
- 17% to road construction
- 28% to a road and bridge program
- 27% to all municipalities, divided by population
- 9% to Cook County (Chicago)
- 10% to counties other than Cook, based on the number of drivers licenses issued
- 9% to the townships and road districts, based on the number of miles of road
Sounds like Illinois to me.
[1] https://idot.illinois.gov/Assets/uploads/files/Transportatio...
Unless I missed something, this number is incorrect according to https://www.icc.illinois.gov/railroad/
> Each month $3.5 million in state motor fuel tax receipts is transferred from the Motor Fuel Tax (MFT) fund to the Grade Crossing Protection Fund. This amount provides the GCPF with $39 million annually to be used for safety improvements at highway/rail crossings on local roads and streets.
Off topic, but this seemed like an enormous amount of money to me. And that doesn't seem to include crossings on state highways which come out of a different fund.
So the state of Illinois is spending at least $117,000 per day on railroad crossings. According to the same page, Illinois has 7,600 railroad crossings so that's at least $15 per day for every railroad crossing in the state.
Edit: I just reviewed your source and it is also cited at 3.5 million.
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/05/debunking-the...
More feasible would be some sort of per-mile tax based on the car’s odometer at the end of each year.