Planned Transportation Spending

An examination of Missouri’s 2012-2016 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program* reveals that road maintenance/minor widening projects account for the largest chunk of planned spending (28 percent). Bridge maintenance/replacement projects follow, 24 percent of the STIP. Transit projects account for 21 percent** of the planned spending. New road capacity projects account for 12 percent and safety projects make up 5 percent. Projects classified as “other,” which include freight, information technology and planning, make up 4 percent. Bridge capacity expansion projects account for 3 percent of the planned spending. Road or bridge projects with bicycle/pedestrian components (such as adding sidewalks when reconstructing a roadway) make up 2 percent of the STIP, and bicycle/pedestrian projects 1 percent. share