NASHVILLE, TN — The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) thanks the General Assembly for dedicating $400 million in the state’s fiscal year 2027 (FY27) budget to support vital infrastructure improvements. The non-recurring dollars will support key investments in maintenance of existing assets and allow TDOT to accelerate, leverage, and add new capacity-adding projects to the department’s fiscally constrained 10-Year Plan.
These funds build on the $4 billion in investments and contracting authority granted to TDOT by the Tennessee General Assembly over the past three years. TDOT also recently released its updated 10-Year Plan to include these added funds for capacity-adding projects outlined in the FY27 budget.
The additional General Fund dollars increase TDOT’s ability to deliver a higher level of service across Tennessee while modernizing the state’s transportation network. These funds are planned for state-of-good-repair projects that ensure the state’s existing infrastructure is properly maintained for years to come, as well as critical bridge investments and additional capacity-adding projects.
The $400 million one-time, non-recurring funds will be allocated as follows:
- $50 million for maintenance
- $150 million for Bridge Preservation Program, supporting 50 off-system (locally owned) bridge replacement projects named in the 2017 IMPROVE Act
- $200 million for capacity-adding projects
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The updated 2026 10-Year Plan contains 93 site-specific projects, including 22 projects added with this update, six of which are made possible through partnership with local government agencies through TDOT’s Statewide Partnership Program. Since the advent of the 10-Year Plan in FY24, TDOT has delivered 48 capacity-adding projects across rural, suburban, and urban communities, totaling $2.73 billion of investment in Tennessee’s transportation network.
“This 10-Year Plan shows that we’re keeping our promise of what gets started, gets finished,” TDOT Commissioner Will Reid, PE, said. “TDOT is proud to deliver 100 percent of its 10-Year Plan projects for the second year in a row. We will continue to accelerate projects, improve safety, and prepare Tennessee’s transportation system for the future.”
