Planned Transportation Spending

An examination of California’s 2010-2015 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program reveals that transit projects* account for the largest chunk of planned spending (26 percent). Road capacity expansion and road maintenance/minor widening projects follow, each 24 percent of the STIP. Projects classified as “other” make up 10 percent of the planned spending.** Safety projects are 5 percent of the planned spending. Bicycle/pedestrian projects account for 4 percent,*** as do bridge maintenance/replacement projects. Bridge capacity expansion projects comprise 3 percent of the STIP. Road or bridge projects with bicycle/pedestrian components (such as adding sidewalks when reconstructing a roadway) account for less than 1 percent of the planned expenditures. share