House Appropriations confirmed that over the past decade the VDOT budget has grown as much as it had in the first 60 years of our current Byrd Transportation system. Here are the transportation figures from Approps. The 1997/98 biennial transportation budget was $ 4.5 Billion. The budget just adopted the transportation budget is 9.6 Billion! The VDOT budget was $ 3.9 Billion in 1997/98 and now it is more than $ 8 Billion! Here are the figures along with the percent increase over the previous budget: Appropriations for Transportation Biennial - VDOT - % Change - Secretariat - % Change 1997/98 3,943,974,187 4% 4,546,502,766 6% 1999/00 4,881,318,615 24% 5,606,915,090 23% 2001/02 5,494,876,300 13% 6,255,912,806 12% 2003/04 5,556,372,724 1% 6,359,025,496 2% 2005/06 7,003,846,062 26% 8,104,853,260 27% 2007/08 8,022,579,914 15% 9,569,102,448 18%