The Virginia Commonwealth Transportation Board has signed off on the state’s six-year infrastructure improvement plan, allocating $28.5 billion to over 4,300 transportation projects.
The program, which began July 1 and is updated annually, covers both the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Department of Rail and Public Transportation and will fund work on roads, bridges, rail, transit, and bicycle and pedestrian paths.
VDOT’s fiscal year 2027 budget is now up 6.7% year-over-year to $9 billion and will be allocated to the following areas:
- $2.8 billion, construction
- $2.5 billion, road maintenance and operations (includes city and county street payments)
- $1.6 billion, support to other agencies, tolls, administration and other programs
- $1 billion, funding dedicated to Northern Virginia, Hampton Roads and Central Virginia regions for local and regional transportation projects
- $378.5 million, debt service
The DRPT’s $1.1 billion FY 2027 budget will be spent in the following categories:
- $930.8 million, transit
- $37.7 million, rail
- $181.1 million, Virginia Passenger Rail Authority
In addition to funding projects already in progress, new areas of investment under the newly approved six-plan improvement include:
- $930 million to support public transportation programs, including transit operating assistance, paratransit, and capital expenditures as well as expenditures to the Virginia Railway Express, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and transportation demand management programs
- $500 million to improve 43 VDOT and locally maintained bridges through the State of Good Repair Bridge Program
- $78 million to improve deficient VDOT and locally maintained pavements through the State of Good Repair Paving Program
- $11 million in new innovation and technology transportation improvements
- $239 million in state funds to be matched dollar for dollar by localities for 143 projects through the Revenue Sharing Program
- $85 million for 57 nontraditional transportation projects through the Transportation Alternatives Program
- $63 million for 21 projects that received Congressionally Directed Spending through the Federal Appropriations Bill
