Each year the Transportation Planning Board adopts a Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) that outlines programmed transportation spending in the Washington region for the subsequent six year period. If you want to know what money is currently allocated (or at least officially programmed) for what projects, the TIP is the place to look.

In January the Board approved the 2008-2013 TIP, and last week released for public comment the first draft of the 2009-2014 TIP.

The document is cumbersome and the list of projects long. Most of it is taken up by the fairly mundane - $20 million for a new lane here and $15 million for a collector road there. Mundane, but expensive. That stuff adds up fast. Anyway, below are some of the not-mundane highlights, broken down by locality.

District of Columbia:

• $718 million to reconfigure South Capitol Street and replace the Frederick Douglass Bridge
• $136 million for “Great Streets” programs around the city, including $52 million to reconfigure and install streetcar tracks on H Street
• $91 million for the Union Station Intermodal Transporation Center
• $59 million for “Anacostia Riverwalk” trails
• $55 million for streetcars, including extensions across the Anacostia River
• $51 million for the K Street Transitway
• $6.5 million to finish the Metropolitan Branch trail
• $6 million for water taxis on the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers

Maryland:

• $2.17 billion for the Intercounty Connector
• $74 million for the Purple Line
• $57 million for the Silver Spring Transit Center
• $55 million to build the Montrose Parkway
• $50 million for the Corridor Cities Transitway
• $18 million to improve MARC tracks
• $2 million to study extending the Green Line north to BWI Airport

Virginia:

• $4.5 billion for the Silver Line (both phases)
• $690 million to widen the Beltway and install HOT lanes
• $372 million to convert I-395 HOV lanes to HOT lanes, and to improve bus service in the corridor
• $130 million to widen Routes 1, 29 and 50
• $61 million to widen I-66 in Arlington
• $40 million to build/widen Prince William Parkway
• $17 million for the Columbia Pike streetcar
• $1.5 million for the Potomac Yard busway