Analysis of MoDOT economic stimulus project list

President-elect Barack Obama and the newly elected Congress have pledged to pass an economic stimulus package early next year that includes a significant "green" component. Bloomberg reports:

"Clean energy is going to be a foundation for rebuilding the American economy," said Bracken Hendricks, an analyst at the Democratic-leaning Center for American Progress and an adviser to the presidential-transition team. Generating jobs in concert with cutting pollution will be "a major component" of any economic-recovery plan, Hendricks said.

In light of that, here is MoBikeFed's preliminary analysis of the "ready-to-go" infrastructure projects proposed by MoDOT for the economic stimulus plan:

MoDOT is proposing $800 million in road, rail, pedestrian, transit, and airport projects, of which $510 could be awarded within 180 days.

Percentage of funds proposed for:

• Roads: 94.4%
• Transit: 3.0%
• Rail: 1.4%
• Aviation: 0.8%
• Pedestrian: 0.5%
• Bicycle: 0.0%

Road projects: are they for maintenance or expansion:

• Maintenance 52.9%
• Expansion 47.1%

Road projects: Do they include any level of bicycle accommodation?

• Includes shoulder - 2.6% Includes shoulder or other facility usable by bicyclists
• No accommodation - 7% Definitely should include shoulder, bicycle lane, or separated path but definitely does not
• Unknown - 50.0% Based on location and project type, this type of project should include bicycle accommodation but no indication of whether it is included; in most cases probably not
• Interstate freeway - 44.7% Interstate freeway or other location where bicycle accommodation is generally not needed (although many freeway projects will include replacing overpasses of routes or streets that cross the freeway; almost all of these should include bicycle and/or pedestrian accommodation but no indication is given of how they will actually be handled)