Planned Transportation Spending

An examination of New Mexico’s 2010-2013 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program reveals that road maintenance/minor widening projects account for the largest chunk of planned spending (32 percent). New road capacity projects follow at 26 percent of the total funding. Transit projects* comprise 15 percent of the STIP, and bridge maintenance/replacement projects 10 percent. Projects classified as “other,” which include landscaping, intelligent transportation systems and planning for unspecified projects, make up 7 percent of the spending. Safety projects** comprise 5 percent. Bicycle/pedestrian projects and road or bridge projects with bicycle/pedestrian components (such as adding sidewalks when reconstructing a roadway) each account for 2 percent of the planned spending. Capacity expansion projects comprise 1 percent of the STIP’s funds. share