Planned Transportation Spending

An examination of West Virginia's 2011-2016 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program reveals that road maintenance/minor widening projects account for the largest chunk of planned spending (29 percent). Bridge maintenance/replacement projects follow, making up 26 percent of the STIP. New road capacity projects comprise 18 percent of the planned spending. Projects classified as “other,” which include unspecified spending and administrative projects, account for 17 percent. Safety projects make up 5 percent, and transit projects* ** 3 percent. Bicycle/pedestrian projects account for 2 percent of the planned spending. Bridge capacity expansion projects make up less than 1 percent of the STIP. No road or bridge projects with bicycle/pedestrian components (such as adding sidewalks when reconstructing a roadway) were identified. share