How many regions or districts does your state's DOT or highway agencies have?

[cl94]

NYSDOT has 11:

1- Albany, extreme northern Hudson Valley/Catskills, eastern Adirondacks
2- Utica, Herkimer, southern and central Adirondacks
3- Syracuse, Ithaca, eastern Finger Lakes
4- Rochester, western Finger Lakes, Genesee Valley
5- Buffalo, Niagara Falls (Western New York)
6- Corning, Hornell, Elmira, Southern Tier
7- Watertown, Plattsburgh (North Country)
8- Hudson Valley, eastern Catskills
9- Western Catskills, Binghamton
10- Long Island
11- NYC

Region Map

Edit: NYSTA has 4:

Buffalo- West of Exit 45, I-190
Syracuse- East of 29A to 45
Albany- 18 to west of 29, Berkshire Spur
New York- South of Exit 18, I-287, GSP connector, New England Thruway/I-95

Each DOT region also has a number of residencies that store construction equipment and handle things like bridge inspections.  I get the impression that the NYSTA regions are like NYSDOT residencies.

Also: http://www.nysroads.com/regions.php

Except each Thruway "region" has several separate maintenance residencies. I can't find a list, but I know that there's a district out of Batavia, for example.

[Urban Prairie Schooner]

Louisiana has nine highway maintenance districts:

http://wwwsp.dotd.la.gov/Inside_LaDOTD/Divisions/Multimodal/Data_Collection/Mapping/Misc%20Documents/State_Map_Districts.pdf

02 - Bridge City (includes New Orleans and Houma)
03 - Lafayette
04 - Bossier City (includes Shreveport)
05 - Monroe
58 - Chase
61 - Baton Rouge
62 - Hammond
07 - Lake Charles
08 - Alexandria

The DOTD districts are based on old congressional district boundaries. Since Louisiana historically had 8 congressional districts there are up to eight DOTD districts numerically. US House District 1 comprised only the city of New Orleans historically, so DOTD absorbed it into District 2 (it is unclear if there ever was a highway district 1). As you can guess, 61 and 62 are splits of old district 6, and 58 is a split of parts of districts 5 and 8 which was created in the 1950s.

There has been talk of eliminating and consolidating some districts to save costs, particularly District 58 which includes no major cities.

[vtk]

Does the Ohio Turnpike Authority have any kind of geographical divisions?

[SD Mapman]

SD has 4
Pierre
Mitchell
Aberdeen
Rapid City

[Mr. Matté]

PennDOT has eleven, numbered beginning in the northwest corner and continuing roughly clockwise around the state to the southwest. There's no District 7 (which logically would be in the Berks-Lancaster area), and I've never found an explanation as to why. (This old Post-Gazette article basically says "Don't ask–there's no logical reason. It's PennDOT."

There was at one time a Division 7-0, but I based on this, the districts were redistricted in the 1930s and Division 7-0 just disappeared. No attempts to renumber the districts have been made.

[Bruce]

WSDOT has eight regions, arranged on county lines:

[froggie]

MnDOT has 7 Districts (numbered 1-4 and 6-8) plus Metro Division (yes, a Division instead of a District) which covers the 7-county Twin Cities metro area plus Chisago County.  Metro Division was created from Districts 5 (West Metro) and 9 (East Metro), hence the gap in current district numbering.  One can still see references to the old numbering in some documents.

Each outstate district is split into two or (in District 8) three maintenance areas, with each maintenance area having an office.  The District HQ doubles as the maintenance area office for the area it's located in.

The Districts are also known by the city their HQ is located in (such as District 1-Duluth) and some districts label both the HQ city and the other maintenance area office located in the district (like District 3-Brainerd/St. Cloud).

[hbelkins]

To echo what some others have said about how their state's districts/divisions are subdivided, Kentucky has done something similar. The current administration reorganized the district offices and combined construction and maintenance into one organizational unit. Now, each district office has four branches:

Project development (just what it sounds like, planning and designing projects)
Engineering support (equipment, traffic [signs and signals], permits, structures, roadside [spraying/vegetation/tree removal])
Project delivery and preservation I & II (two branches, each covering approximately half the district, for construction inspection and maintenance functions)

This does not include the district office staff that handles accounting, secretarial, payroll, personnel, buildings and grounds, public relations and other administrative functions.

Each county has at least one maintenance garage (Floyd County, in eastern Kentucky, has two garages; and Pike County, the largest county in the state, has three garages; there may be other counties with multiple garages of which I am unaware)

Each project delivery and preservation branch has two sections, headed by a section supervisor (section engineer) with responsibility over construction inspection and maintenance functions in the counties covered by that section.

This reorganization was opposed by many within the districts, as they felt it made no sense to combine construction and maintenance. (The old organization had five branches: Operations (maintenance), Construction, Pre-construction (project development), Planning and a fifth branch for which I cannot remember the formal title, but it handled traffic/permits/etc.)

In my district, we have one PD&P branch that covers the southernmost counties. A new section office was built at Hazard and a new section office was built adjacent to the district office in Jackson, which many feel was a waste of money. The other PD&P Branch covers the northernmost counties and the section offices are using existing facilities at Slade and West Liberty. Those section offices replaced what were called resident engineers' offices, whose responsibility was overseeing and inspecting construction and contractor jobs, and they were located at Jackson, West Liberty, Slade and Irvine. Due to politics, the Irvine office has remained open with just a couple of staffers.

If I ran things, I'd separate construction and maintenance again (if anything, I'd put construction in with project development and have the inspectors under the supervision of the developers/planners) and I'd place the traffic functions (signage and signals), roadside/agronomy and structures (bridges) in with maintenance, as it seems to me like those are the logical places for those functions.

[catch22]

Michigan has 7:  Superior, North, Grand, Bay, Southwest, University, Metro.

[vdeane]

NYSDOT has 11:

1- Albany, extreme northern Hudson Valley/Catskills, eastern Adirondacks
2- Utica, Herkimer, southern and central Adirondacks
3- Syracuse, Ithaca, eastern Finger Lakes
4- Rochester, western Finger Lakes, Genesee Valley
5- Buffalo, Niagara Falls (Western New York)
6- Corning, Hornell, Elmira, Southern Tier
7- Watertown, Plattsburgh (North Country)
8- Hudson Valley, eastern Catskills
9- Western Catskills, Binghamton
10- Long Island
11- NYC

Region Map

Edit: NYSTA has 4:

Buffalo- West of Exit 45, I-190
Syracuse- East of 29A to 45
Albany- 18 to west of 29, Berkshire Spur
New York- South of Exit 18, I-287, GSP connector, New England Thruway/I-95

Each DOT region also has a number of residencies that store construction equipment and handle things like bridge inspections.  I get the impression that the NYSTA regions are like NYSDOT residencies.

Also: http://www.nysroads.com/regions.php

Except each Thruway "region" has several separate maintenance residencies. I can't find a list, but I know that there's a district out of Batavia, for example.

Interesting.  I wonder what they actually do, given that the entire Thruway system has less roadway than a NYSDOT region.  I think they even do their pavement sufficiency from the main office (NYSDOT Main Office outsources that to the regions).

[cl94]

NYSDOT has 11:

1- Albany, extreme northern Hudson Valley/Catskills, eastern Adirondacks
2- Utica, Herkimer, southern and central Adirondacks
3- Syracuse, Ithaca, eastern Finger Lakes
4- Rochester, western Finger Lakes, Genesee Valley
5- Buffalo, Niagara Falls (Western New York)
6- Corning, Hornell, Elmira, Southern Tier
7- Watertown, Plattsburgh (North Country)
8- Hudson Valley, eastern Catskills
9- Western Catskills, Binghamton
10- Long Island
11- NYC

Region Map

Edit: NYSTA has 4:

Buffalo- West of Exit 45, I-190
Syracuse- East of 29A to 45
Albany- 18 to west of 29, Berkshire Spur
New York- South of Exit 18, I-287, GSP connector, New England Thruway/I-95

Each DOT region also has a number of residencies that store construction equipment and handle things like bridge inspections.  I get the impression that the NYSTA regions are like NYSDOT residencies.

Also: http://www.nysroads.com/regions.php

Except each Thruway "region" has several separate maintenance residencies. I can't find a list, but I know that there's a district out of Batavia, for example.

Interesting.  I wonder what they actually do, given that the entire Thruway system has less roadway than a NYSDOT region.  I think they even do their pavement sufficiency from the main office (NYSDOT Main Office outsources that to the regions).

Plowing, minor patching, striping, guard rail, mowing, emergency repairs. Each "section" does ~28 miles of highway, which, including interchanges, is likely no less than 100 lane-miles. Each "division"/region isn't much smaller than Region 11.

[SP Cook]

http://www.transportation.wv.gov/highways/districts/PublishingImages/districtmap.gif

WV has 10 districts, based strictly on county lines.   Each district is headed by either a District Engineer, who must be a PE, or a District Manager, which is a change the politicians did about 10 years ago and is bad IMHO.  Each county is headed by a County Superintendent who is in charge of all roads in the county (WV has no county roads in the sense that the term is used in most of the country) except for expressways.   Expressways (interstates, Appalachian Corridors, and US 35) are broken up into segments and operated as a de facto separate county called an "Expressway Organization" headed by an "Expressway Superintendent".  While still in a district, the borders of EOs are not the same, based on exits, rather than county lines.  (ex: I-64 EO Segment A, a part of District 2 (Huntington) and I-64 EO Segment B, a part of District 1 (Charleston) border at the Milton exit, rather than the Putnam-Cabell line.

[roadman]

Massachusetts originally had eight highway Districts, which were generally divided by county lines.  In general, District 1 covered Berkshire County, District 2 covered Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties, District 3 covered Worcester County, District 4 covered Middlesex and Norfolk Counties, District 5 covered Essex County, District 6 covered Bristol and Plymouth Counties, District 7 covered Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket Counties, and District 8 covered Suffolk County.

In 1992, as part of the reorganization under then Commissioner Jim Kerasiotes (who subsequently became Mass. Secretary of Transportation and then Mass. Turnpike Authority Chairman), which also resulted in the name change from Mass. Department of Public Works to MassHighway, the District offices were consolidated.  District 1 was expanded to include part of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties in addition to Berkshire.  District 3 was left intact.  District 4 was expanded to include Essex County and most of Suffolk County, with the exception of the Big Dig and Downtown Boston - which became part of the then-newly created Metropolitan Highway System (overseen and entirely funded by the Turnpike Authority, creation of the MHS - which was done by Legislative Act - was the means the state used to satisfy FHWA financing requirements for the Big Dig).  District 5 had its number re-assigned to an expanded district covering Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket Counties.  Districts 6, 7 and 8 were eliminated.

In 2009, as part of the MassDOT merger that eliminated the Turnpike Authority and the MHS, District 4 was shrunk to eliminate Suffolk County and part of Norfolk County - these counties because part of the new District 6.  The relevant portions of the Mass. Turnpike were absorbed into Districts 1, 2, 3, and 6 as well.

[roadman]

In response to hbelkin's post about DOT organization, as regards engineering activities, every MassDOT district has their own maintenance, traffic, structures, construction, projects, and planning sections.  All these sections are replicated in the Boston HQ office at 10 Park Plaza as well.  In addition, Boston HQ also has Project Management, Construction Management, and Construction Contracts sections, as well as the usual administrative sections you would find at a DOT (HR, Fiscal Management, and the like).

As far as the organization of these sections, most of the day to day work is done at the District level, with Boston HQ mostly providing support and policy level decisions.  The notable exceptions are for larger projects, which are designed and directly overseen through either Boston HQ Project Management or Traffic Engineering.  Once a construction project is awarded, oversight of the project is handled by the applicable District's construction office.

[roadman65]

I take that the reason why Nantucket is not part of the districts is because it has no state highways on it?

[roadman]

I take that the reason why Nantucket is not part of the districts is because it has no state highways on it?

Oops - forgot about Nantucket County, which IIRC has one (and only one) unnumbered state highway on it.  Have corrected my post - thanks.

[hbelkins]

To add to my info about Kentucky's district structure, and inspired by SP Cook's post about West Virginia, each district is headed by a person alternately known as either Chief District Engineer or Executive Director. This person is politically appointed and is in a non-merit position, not protected by civil service laws. He or she is required to be a PE.

Currently, each district also has an Administrative Coordinator who primarily handles personnel, but supervises the accounting and payroll staff. This position was created by the current administration and is also a politically appointed position. This position replaced the Deputy Executive Director position, which was first created by the previous administration and was also a politically appointed position.

Prior to that, administration and personnel were handled by a merit system employee called Administrative Manager. This is where lots of political abuse took place because the Administrative Manager was protected under civil service laws, yet they had pretty much gotten their jobs due to political patronage. And they in return handed out jobs through the patronage system. This position was not abolished under the previous administration, but many of the duties were transferred to the Deputy Executive Director. In my office, the Administrative Manager who had been there for years prior to me taking my job was notorious for playing politics with hiring. He was known to tell people that they would not be hired unless they were "the right religion," meaning a registered Democrat. I know people who actually changed their voter registration from Republican to Democrat so they would be considered for hiring. It was illegal as hell but they got away with it.

Each highway garage has a foreman who holds the title Superintendent II. This is a merit system position. There is also an assistant foreman who has the title of Superintendent I, also a civil service job.

[doorknob60]

O(regon)DOT  has 14 districts (though 2 is split into 2B and 2C, not quite sure what that means):



Detailed Map (PDF)

The headquarters are in Astoria, Clackamas (2B), Troutdale (2C), Salem, Corvallis, Springfield (Eugene), Roseburg, White City (Medford), The Dalles, Bend, Klamath Falls, Pendleton, LaGrande and Ontario.

They also have 5 regions, separate form the maintenance districts. I'm not sure if they really mean anything, but here they are:

[agentsteel53]

okay, I'll bite.  why 2B and 2C?  why no 2A?  and why no 6?

[vtk]

And what's with the hole?

[agentsteel53]

And what's with the hole?

that part actually made sense to me.  Crater Lake.  NPS maintenance.

[Brandon]

okay, I'll bite.  why 2B and 2C?  why no 2A?  and why no 6?

"Forget it, Jake, it's Oregontown."

[Pink Jazz]

ADOT here in Arizona has nine districts (Phoenix, Tucson, Yuma, Flagstaff, Prescott, Kingman, Holbrook, Globe, and Safford).

http://www.azdot.gov/docs/default-source/statewide-project-management/district_map.pdf?sfvrsn=2

[WashuOtaku]

NCDOT has 14 divisions, which are further broken down into districts within' them.

[WashuOtaku]

SCDOT is broken into seven districts.