Planned Transportation Spending
An examination of North Carolina’s 2009-2015 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program reveals that road new capacity projects make up the largest chunk of the state’s spending, 58 percent of the STIP.** Bridge maintenance/replacement and road maintenance/minor widening projects comprise 18 percent of the expenditures (12 percent and 6 percent, respectively). Transit follows, at 10 percent of proposed spending. Projects such as freight infrastructure, landscaping, information technology and general planning fall into the “other” category, which makes up 7 percent of the spending. Safety projects comprise 4 percent, bicycle/pedestrian projects 2 percent, and bridge new capacity projects comprise 1 percent of the state’s planned spending. share
Proposed Spending, FY 2009-2015
Project Type | Cost (Millions) | |
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Total | $12,184.70 | |
Bridge Maintenance/Replacement | $1,457.03 | |
Road Maintenance/Minor Widening | $705.11 | |
New Road Capacity** | $7,102.37 | |
Transit* | $1,237.58 | |
Bicycle/Pedestrian | $194.54 | |
Safety | $547.19 | |
Bridge Capacity Expansion | $119.38 | |
Other | $821.50 |
* TSTC received the transit total from NCDOT; TSTC did not remove any state or local-only operating assistance.
** According to NCDOT, the STIP represents half of the agency’s entire budget. The majority of the agency’s non-STIP funding is used primarily on maintenance and operations.
Percentage of STIP by project type
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bmr12
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rmmw6
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nrc58
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tran10
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bp1
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sfty5
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bce1
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othr7