Planned Transportation Spending

An examination of Alaska’s 2011-2013 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program* reveals that road maintenance/minor widening projects account for the largest chunk of planned spending (22 percent). Bridge capacity expansion projects follow at 19 percent of the STIP. This category includes $540 million for the Knik Arm Bridge, a planned public-private partnership. New road capacity projects make up 15 percent of the STIP’s spending; this category includes the Knik Arm Crossing access roads ($173 million) as well as the Juneau Access Project ($48 million), a project currently on hold due to litigation. Transit projects make up 12 percent of the STIP’s spending. Bridge maintenance/replacement projects and projects classified as “other” each make up 10 percent, and road and bridge maintenance projects ** comprise 7 percent of the planned spending. Safety projects account for 3 percent, and bicycle/pedestrian projects comprise 1 percent. Road or bridge projects with bicycle/pedestrian components (such as adding sidewalks when reconstructing a roadway) also make up 1 percent of the STIP. share