Planned Transportation Spending

An examination of Idaho’s 2011-2014 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program reveals that road maintenance/minor widening projects make up the largest chunk of planned spending (41 percent). Bridge maintenance/replacement projects and new road capacity projects each comprise 20 percent of the STIP. Projects classified as “other” make up 6 percent of the state’s proposed spending, and include administrative costs, unspecified planning and research projects and environmental ser- vices. Transit spending also makes up 6 percent of the proposed expenditures and safety projects 5 percent. Both bridge capacity expansion projects and bicycle/pedestrian projects account for 1 percent of the state’s spending. share