Gov. Jerry Brown has a bigger plan to fund transportation, though a political deal remains elusive

With negotiations stuck in a traffic jam of competing priorities, Gov. Jerry Brown’s new state budget offers another effort to boost California’s transportation funding by raising the gas tax paid by the state’s drivers.

Brown’s plan unveiled on Tuesday would add $4.3 billion a year over the next decade on everything from repairs to additional public transit. The governor convened a special session of the Legislature to deal with transportation funding in the summer of 2015, but it finally fizzled out last fall.

The governor’s proposal would set the state’s gasoline excise tax at 21.5 cents per gallon, up from his proposal last year for 18 cents per gallon.