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

[roadman65]

My state of Florida has 7 general DOT districts plus the Florida's Turnpike Enterprise composing 8 DOT districts.

[on_wisconsin]

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has five:

[bzakharin]

NJDOT has 3 regions (north, central, and south), but 4 districts (north is split into 2)
NJ Turnpike has 9 maintenance districts
Don't know how many the GS Parkway or AC Expressway have if any

[hbelkins]

A dozen districts for Kentucky. Each is known by a district number rather than by a region name or city name.

http://transportation.ky.gov/Pages/Highway-Districts.aspx

[pianocello]

Iowa has 6 districts, and Illinois has 5 regions split into 9 districts. The only region in Illinois that has one district is Region/District 1 (Chicago).

[myosh_tino]

California has 12 districts.  Like Kentucky, districts are numbered.

[Thing 342]

VDOT has 9:

[cbeach40]

We have 5 in Ontario, geographically named.




Years ago we had as many as 18 districts (each both numbered and geographically named by the district office location), but consolidation has whittled it down. Some work is still geographically subdivided within the individual regions.

[Brandon]

Iowa has 6 districts, and Illinois has 5 regions split into 9 districts. The only region in Illinois that has one district is Region/District 1 (Chicago).

And each one has a number and a name.

1 - Chicago/Schaumburg (actual location)
2 - Dixon
3 - Ottawa
4 - Peoria
5 - Paris
6 - Capital/Springfield
7 - Effingham
8 - Collinsville
9 - Carbondale

[agentsteel53]

California has 12 districts.

11.  I don't recognize the secession of Orange County.

[briantroutman]

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."



Each district is further divided into sub-districts with the -0 denoting the primary engineering office for the entire district (shown as the red cross on the map) and then -1, -2, identifying secondary maintenance offices, stockpiles, etc. by county.

For example District 8 has an engineering office in Harrisburg (8-0). Any maintenance office or stockpile in Adams County would be identified 8-1; Cumberland County is 8-2.

[myosh_tino]

California has 12 districts.

11.  I don't recognize the secession of Orange County.

FWIW, there was a push a while back to split off Santa Clara County into it's own district but I haven't heard much about this lately.

[6a]

Yeah, why is Orange Co its own district?

Anyway, Ohio has twelve:

[oscar]

Alaska has Northern, Central, and Southeastern regions.  Central is Anchorage area and southwestern Alaska; Southeastern is the panhandle; Northern is the rest of the state.

Hawaii has Kauai, Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii divisions, corresponding to Kauai County, Honolulu County, Maui County, and Hawaii County (the Big Island).

[agentsteel53]

Yeah, why is Orange Co its own district?

belly-aching.

http://articles.latimes.com/1987-01-22/local/me-323_1_orange-county-office

[myosh_tino]

Every so often Orange County officials get upset with the California Department of Transportation over how much money is allocated for county projects, the delay in completing scheduled projects, or both. That's when the "let's have an office of our own" fever breaks out.

This was the gist of Santa Clara County's beef with District 4 (too much focus on San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa counties, not enough on Santa Clara).

[Jardine]

Iowa has 6 districts, and Illinois has 5 regions split into 9 districts. The only region in Illinois that has one district is Region/District 1 (Chicago).

Iowa DOT has the goal of a single district, right around Des Moines.  The rest of the state can be all gravel county roads for all they care.


Grrrr.

[vtk]

Anyway, Ohio has twelve:

To expand on this, the districts are primarily identified by number, at least on the public-facing side of things. They are also identified by the city where the district office is located, and I get the feeling this is more prominent within ODOT. However, the twiter account for district 6, rather than using that number or a reference to the city of Delaware, is called @odot_columbus .

[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

[tdindy88]

Indiana has six:

Northwest - LaPorte
Northeast - Fort Wayne
West Central - Crawfordsville
East Central - Greenfield
Southwest - Vincennes
Southeast - Seymour

It would seem that geographic name and city name (where the main office is located) are used about equally.

[Doctor Whom]

Maryland has 7.  Baltimore City is not in any of them because the SHA does not maintain any roads in the city.

[freebrickproductions]

Alabama has 9 currently. They missed the office in Marshall County just north of Guntersville on the map though.

[Rainking75]

North Carolina has 14.

http://www.ncdot.gov/travel/statemapping/download/nc_statemap_divisionmap.pdf

[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

[Eth]

Georgia has seven.

District 1 - northeast Georgia
District 2 - east central Georgia
District 3 - west central Georgia
District 4 - southwest Georgia
District 5 - southeast Georgia
District 6 - northwest Georgia
District 7 - inner metro Atlanta (Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, and Rockdale counties)