New York State Department of Transportation
The New York State Department of Transportation, abbreviated NYSDOT is an agency of the U.S. state of New York, which is responsible for parts of the transport infrastructure of the state. This includes maintenance and operation of state-owned highways, railways, urban transport, ports, waterways and aviation facilities. Other transport infrastructure are maintained by the New York State Thruway Authority. In the city of New York City is the New York City Department of Transportation, the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is responsible for roads bridges and port operations.
The headquarters of the New York State Department of Transportation is in the 50 Wolf Road in Albany. The management of the Authority Joan McDonald was commissioned by Governor Andrew Cuomo on January 14, 2011. The authority has about 10,000 employees.
Tasks
The infrastructure to be managed by NYSDOT New York State includes:
- A road network with more than 180,000 kilometers of highway and more than 17,400 bridges.
- A rail network with more than 5,600 kilometers of track.
- 485 public and private aviation facilities.
- More than 130 operators of public transport.
- The 12 most important public and private ports.
History
In its two hundred year history, the New York State Department of Transportation and its predecessor authorities oversaw the construction of the Erie Canal and the planning and development of today's highways and airports in New York State among others.
- In 1777, the Office of Surveyor General was reorganized.
- In 1810, the Erie Canal Commission was established by the Erie Canal to plan and build, and then to take over the maintenance of the channel.
- In 1846, took over the State Engineer and Surveyor, the tasks of the Office of the Surveyor General.
- In 1878, the Superintendent of Public Works took over the administration of the channels.
- 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 design, construction and maintenance of highways to coordinate.
- In 1927, the New York State Department of Public Works took over the management of highways, canals and public buildings owned by the state, the Public Service Commission and the New York State Department of Highways went to the new authority.
- In 1967, the New York State Department of Transportation was established to summarize the state functions of transport in an authority. The Department of Public Works went on in the NYSDOT.
Organization
The New York State Department of Transportation is divided into 11 regional departments, which are responsible for the following areas:
- Region 1 ( Capital District office in Schenectady ) Albany, Essex, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren, Washington
- Region 2 ( Mohawk Valley office in Utica ): Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Madison, Montgomery, Oneida
- Region 3 ( Central New York, office in Syracuse ): Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, Oswego, Seneca, Tompkins
- Region 4 ( Finger Lakes, branch in Rochester ): Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Wayne, Wyoming
- Region 5 ( Western New York branch in Buffalo ): Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Niagara
- Region 6 (Central Southern Tier, Hornell branch ): Allegany, Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Yates
- Region 7 ( North Country, branch in Watertown ): Clinton, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, St. Lawrence
- Region 8 (Hudson Valley office in Poughkeepsie ): Columbia, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Ulster, Westchester
- Region 9 ( Southern Tier, office in Binghamton ): Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan, Tioga
- Region 10 (Long Iceland, branch in Hauppauge ): Nassau, Suffolk
- Region 11 (New York City, office in Queens ): Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Iceland
NYSDOT Reference Marker
The assets managed by NYSDOT State roads are ( Reference markers ), which show the road number in the first line about every 10 miles with markers. The second line shows in column 1 the responsibility of the respective regional department (1-9 ), 0 stands for Long Iceland and X for New York City and the number of Countygrenzen that has crossed this road. The third line shows in the first column of a control number, and then the distance in tenths of miles from the last Countygrenze or the last control segment.