Highway Planning and Construction in Virginia

Virginia’s cell on the 20.205 table

CFDA 20.205 is titled HIGHWAY PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION. Crossed with Virginia place of performance, obligations sum to $3,681,932,531.20 on 2,294 awards. The national highway-planning hub includes other states. Virginia’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this pair is reported here. $3,681,932,531.20 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of Interstate segments.

2,294 awards sits between a handful of statewide lumps and a fully fragmented project file: many instruments, still at a mean near $1.61 million. The join does not name VDOT districts, list contractors, or count bridges. Packet facts stop at $3,681,932,531.20, 2,294 awards, VA, and 20.205. Correlation is not causation. 2,294 highway instruments carrying $3,681,932,531.20 sit between Louisiana’s and Wisconsin’s 20.205 cells in this slice without ranking those road networks.

Federal-aid highways versus other Virginia transportation rows

The catalog title names Highway Planning And Construction. Transit, aviation, and rail catalogs are different rows and are not mixed into $3,681,932,531.20. Facts available: Virginia, CFDA 20.205, $3,681,932,531.20, 2,294 awards. Letting schedules, HOV-lane inventories, and contractor names are not in the facts.

Dividing $3,681,932,531.20 by 2,294 yields about $1.61 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 2,294 is not a census of construction contracts.

Questions

How much highway planning funding is obligated in Virginia?

USAspending records $3,681,932,531.20 in CFDA 20.205 obligations with Virginia place of performance on 2,294 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Highway Planning And Construction and Virginia together when citing $3,681,932,531.20. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 2,294 awards mean 2,294 Virginia highway projects?

2,294 is a USAspending award-record count, not a project, contractor, or mile census. The implied mean is about $1.61 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $3,681,932,531.20 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $3.68 billion Virginia’s full federal transportation spend?

No. $3,681,932,531.20 is only the 20.205 × Virginia cell. Other transportation catalogs appear on separate Virginia program pages. Nationwide 20.205 is not limited to Virginia. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 20.205 × VA pair. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Have these highway dollars already been spent?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. This join does not name contractors. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live highway–Virginia table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.