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Road budget short billions less, audit says May 1, 2007 Jake Batsell, DALLAS MORNING NEWS State transportation officials have overstated Texas' shortfall for future transportation needs by billions of dollars, the state auditor's office said in a report released Monday. Texas Department of Transportation officials repeatedly have said the state is running $86 billion behind in its road-building needs for the next 25 years. But the audit found that $8.6 billion should not have been included in that figure and that another $37 billion estimated by regional authorities could not be verified. Auditors did not identify any errors in the $21.8 billion shortfall projected for needed road projects in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. None of the projected numbers include maintenance costs, which officials say would more than double the amount. Michael Behrens, the Transportation Department's executive director, said the agency would improve its estimating methods as suggested by the audit. But Mr. Behrens said the report proves that "the funding gap, no matter what anyone thinks it might be, is growing."
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State transportation officials have overstated Texas' shortfall for future transportation needs by billions of dollars |
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the audit found that $8.6 billion should not have been included in that figure and that another $37 billion estimated by regional authorities could not be verified |
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