New York State Department of Transportation
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| State level | New York State |
| founding | 1967 |
| Headquarters | 50 Wolf Road, Albany , New York |
| Authority management | Joan McDonald, commissioner |
| Servants | about 10,000 |
| Web presence | www.dot.ny.gov |
The New York State Department of Transportation (abbreviated as NYSDOT ) is an agency in the US state of New York that is responsible for parts of the state's transportation infrastructure. This includes the maintenance and operation of state-owned highways, railways, local transport, ports, waterways and aviation facilities. Other transportation infrastructure facilities are maintained by the New York State Thruway Authority . In the city of New York City , the New York City Department of Transportation , the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are responsible for road bridges and port operations.
The headquarters of the New York State Department of Transportation is located at 50 Wolf Road in Albany . On January 14, 2011, Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed Joan McDonald to head the agency . The agency has around 10,000 employees.
tasks
The New York State infrastructure to be managed by NYSDOT includes:
- A road network with more than 180,000 kilometers of motorways and more than 17,400 bridges.
- A rail network with more than 5600 kilometers of track.
- 485 public and private aviation institutions.
- More than 130 local public transport operating companies.
- The 12 main public and private ports.
history
In its roughly two-hundred-year history, the New York State Department of Transportation and its predecessor agencies have accompanied the construction of the Erie Canal and the planning and development of today's highways and commercial airports in New York State.
- In 1777 the Office of Surveyor General was reorganized.
- In 1810, the Erie Canal Commission was established to design and build the Erie Canal , and then to take over the maintenance of the canal.
- In 1846, the State Engineer and Surveyor took over the duties of the Office of Surveyor General .
- In 1878 the Superintendent of Public Works took over management of the canals.
- In 1907, the Public Service Commission assumed responsibility for the economic security and regulation of privately operated transportation companies.
- In 1909, the New York State Department of Highways was established to coordinate the planning, construction and maintenance of the highways.
- In 1927, the New York State Department of Public Works took over management of the state-owned freeways, canals, and public buildings, and the Public Service Commission and New York State Department of Highways merged into the new agency.
- In 1967, the New York State Department of Transportation was founded in order to combine the state tasks of transportation in one agency. The Department of Public Works went into NYSDOT.
organization
The New York State Department of Transportation is divided into 11 regional departments that are responsible for the following areas:
- Region 1 (Capital District, Schenectady Office ): Albany , Essex , Greene , Rensselaer , Saratoga , Schenectady , Warren , Washington
- Region 2 (Mohawk Valley, Utica Office ): Fulton , Hamilton , Herkimer , Madison , Montgomery , Oneida
- Region 3 (Central New York, Syracuse Office ): Cayuga , Cortland , Onondaga , Oswego , Seneca , Tompkins
- Region 4 (Finger Lakes, Rochester Office ): Genesee , Livingston , Monroe , Ontario , Orleans , Wayne , Wyoming
- Region 5 (Western New York, Buffalo Office ): Cattaraugus , Chautauqua , Erie , Niagara
- Region 6 (Central Southern Tier, Hornell Branch ): Allegany , Chemung , Schuyler , Steuben , Yates
- Region 7 (North Country, Watertown Office ): Clinton , Franklin , Jefferson , Lewis , St. Lawrence
- Region 8 (Hudson Valley, Poughkeepsie Office ): Columbia , Dutchess , Orange , Putnam , Rockland , Ulster , Westchester
- Region 9 (Southern Tier, Binghamton Office ): Broome , Chenango , Delaware , Otsego , Schoharie , Sullivan , Tioga
- Region 10 ( Long Island , Hauppauge Office ): Nassau , Suffolk
- Region 11 ( New York City , Queens Office ): Bronx , Brooklyn , Manhattan , Queens, Staten Island
NYSDOT Reference Marker
The state highways maintained by NYSDOT are provided with reference markers approximately every 10 miles showing the street number on the first line. The second row shows in column 1 the responsibility of the respective regional department (1–9), 0 stands for Long Island and X for New York City and the number of county lines this street has crossed. The third row shows a control number in the first column and then the distance in tenths of a mile from the last county boundary or the last control segment.