The Highway Safety Construction Program is a specific legislative program designation for safety projects of
types illustrated by the following recent examples:
For the reasons just described above, projects in this program make up only a portion of the overall investment in making highways safer. In this program the specific purposes are to prevent the risks of accidents occurring and
to reduce the incidence or severity of crashes at locations where they have occurred.
Highway Safety Construction Program
Bienniums 1995 - 97 through 2001 - 03
8 Year total, All Sources = $407 Million
In Millions
Funding for this program has generally been increased by the Legislature in recent biennia. (In the preceding
chart, the shrinkage of the federal share is a result of program decisions made within Washington State about
the distribution of federal aid dollars among general programs.)