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DOT proposes $4.5 billion 10-year transportation plan; lawmakers weigh toll increases to cover shortfalls
Summary
DOT presented a draft $4.5 billion, 2027'36 transportation plan that prioritizes maintenance and preservation but faces funding shortfalls. Officials described options including reprogramming, delaying projects and potential toll increases; public testimony pressed to keep safety and shovel-ready local projects in the plan.
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation presented the draft update of the state's 10-year transportation improvement plan (covering 2027-2036), describing a fiscally constrained $4.5 billion program that emphasizes maintenance, preservation and safety while confronting flat revenues and rising costs.
Commissioner Bill Cass and Director Toby Reynolds outlined the plan's major assumptions: federal funding reauthorization (IIJA/BIL) is uncertain after September 2026 so the draft assumes level federal funding across the ten-year horizon; project inflation assumptions were increased from 3.7% to 4.4% (adding roughly $93 million to estimates); and the DOT proposed increasing its indirect cost rate from 10% to 12% (adding roughly…
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