City engineers have presented a bleak outlook for London's road network.

Without a massive infusion of tax dollars, the Civic Works Committee is being warned the condition of city roads will continue to deteriorate.

The report highlighted what many drivers already suspected, currently 25 per cent of London's roads are rated as being in either poor or very poor condition.

The cost to maintain and expand London's current transportation system is far greater than the amount of money the city is spending each year to address the situation and the infrastructure funding gap is only growing.

In a decade, it is predicted to reach $272 million.

To make up the difference, homeowners would have to accept a 1.5 per cent tax increase each year for the next six straight years.

London Mayor Joe Fontana puts the responsibility on upper levels of government who he says have underfunded municipalities for years.

"That's why there's a growing gap and the gap is that the federal and provincial governments believe that cities can live on nine cents of the tax pie and be able to take on the responsibility."

The issue will go to full council Tuesday.