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Transportation director warns pavement condition trending down, cites grants and signal work
Summary
The Department of Transportation & Engineering reported that the pavement condition index is declining, pedestrian-involved crashes rose in the first half of the fiscal year, emergency outage response met targets, and the department has leveraged grant funding to support projects.
Director Long (Department of Transportation & Engineering) told the Budget & Finance Committee that the city’s transportation network requires significant maintenance resources and that the pavement-condition index has trended downward despite targeted projects and grant funding.
Director Long said DOT is responsible for roughly $5 billion in transportation infrastructure and that the department’s full-time staff complement has been steady at about 203–206 employees. The department reported average annual general capital support rising modestly and an average of about $20 million in restricted funds across aviation,…
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