A Morning Consult survey of 10,000+ registered voters nationwide shows strong support for reauthorizing new federal highway, bridge, and transit funding before the September 30 deadline.
More than three in four registered voters want Congress to pass a new highway, bridge, and transit funding law before the current one expires on September 30 — and they back it up with urgency.
Support for passing new funding wins every time — in every state. Click on a state to see how its voters are thinking about America moving forward.
Do you support, or oppose, Congress passing a new federal highway, bridge, and transit funding law before the current law expires on September 30?
Voters don’t just want the bill passed on time — most want federal funding kept at least as strong as it is now.
Thinking about the new federal highway, bridge, and transit funding law, do you think it should provide more, less, or about the same amount of funding as the current law?
Share of registered voters who want funding at least as strong as today, by party:
It’s not just the idea of a bill that voters like — it’s what’s in it. From keeping the Highway Trust Fund focused on roads and bridges to record funding for repairs, every major provision in the package draws majority support.
Lawmakers in Congress have proposed several specific changes as part of the new highway, bridge, and transit funding law. For each one, do you support or oppose it?
Total support for each provision (strongly + somewhat):
Share of registered voters who support each provision, by party:
Voters back a simple principle — everyone who uses the roads should help pay to fix them.
Do you support, or oppose, a new annual federal registration fee on electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, set to match what drivers of gas-powered vehicles already pay in gas taxes, with the money going to fix roads and bridges?
Share of registered voters who support the EV road fee, by party:
These are not abstractions: 55% of registered voters have personally experienced at least one road, bridge, or traffic problem in the past two years. More than a quarter (27%) report vehicle damage from a pothole, and 1 in 5 have witnessed or been involved in a near-miss or crash in a highway work zone.
In the past two years, have you personally experienced any of the following because of road, bridge, or traffic conditions? Please select all that apply.
Share of registered voters who report each experience in the past two years:
Work zones are the most dangerous stretch of road for the crews who build and repair it. Voters want action — from barriers and automated speed cameras to better data and dedicated funding to keep work zones safe.
drivers report witnessing, or being involved in, a near-miss or crash in a highway work zone.
Lawmakers in Congress have proposed several specific changes as part of the new highway, bridge, and transit funding law. For each one, do you support or oppose it?
Share of registered voters who support each measure, by party:
Voters give almost none of their infrastructure top marks: just 11% rate their local streets as ‘excellent,’ with major highways at 13% and bridges at 12%. And many go further than just withholding praise: on the roads they navigate every day, large shares rate conditions outright poor.
How would you rate the quality of each of the following in your area?
Share of registered voters who rate each category poor or very poor:
Share of registered voters who rate each category poor or very poor, by party:
The roads may be gridlocked, but the politics aren’t: solid majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and independents all want Congress to pass the new funding law on time.
Do you support, or oppose, Congress passing a new federal highway, bridge, and transit funding law before the current law expires on September 30?
Total support, by registered voters and by party