Planned Transportation Spending

An examination of South Dakota’s 2011-2015 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program reveals that road maintenance/minor widening projects account for the largest chunk of planned spending (57 percent). Bridge maintenance/replacement projects comprise 17 percent of the STIP, followed by new road capacity projects (8 percent of the spending). Road or bridge projects with bicycle/pedestrian components (such as adding sidewalks when reconstructing a roadway) make up 7 percent. Safety projects account for 4 percent of the planned spending. Transit, as well as projects classified as “other,” each comprise 3 percent. Bicycle/pedestrian projects are 1 percent of the STIP, and bridge capacity expansion projects are less than 1 percent of the spending. share