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DOTD outlines $1.12 billion highway priority program, emphasizes preservation and data-driven selection
Summary
At an Oct. 23 Senate Transportation hearing in Baton Rouge, DOTD highway program engineer Mary Elliott said Louisiana’s FY2025–26 Highway Priority Program is estimated at about $1.12 billion, with roughly 84% allocated to preservation, operations, safety and capacity. She described a decentralized, data-plus-stakeholder selection process and cited Revised Statute Title 48 §229.1 as governing priorities.
Mary Elliott, DOTD’s highway program engineer, told the Senate Transportation Committee on Oct. 23 that Louisiana’s proposed Highway Priority Program for state fiscal year 2025–26 is about $1,120,000,000 and will be guided by preservation, operations, safety, capacity and local public-assistance goals. The presentation outlined how DOTD balances technical metrics and stakeholder input when choosing projects.
Elliott said the state highway system includes roughly 16,000 centerline route miles, including 943 interstate miles, and thousands of fixed and movable bridges DOTD inspects and for which it administers funding. She said funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) boosted annual highway and bridge funding by about $200,000,000 — roughly a 25% increase — and created new discretionary programs for bridge rehabilitation, resiliency, and carbon-reduction projects.
Under DOTD’s proposed discretionary program Elliott listed approximate allocations: $526,000,000 for system…
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