The New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) is the agency of the

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responsible for the management of much of

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's transportation infrastructure. Ydanis Rodriguez is the Commissioner of the Department of Transportation, and was appointed by Mayor

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on January 1, 2022. Former Commissioners have included Polly Trottenberg, Janette Sadik-Khan, and Iris Weinshall. The NYCDOT has a training center in eastern

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Responsibilities

The Department of Transportation's responsibilities include day-to-day maintenance of the city's streets, highways, bridges, sidewalks, street signs, traffic signals, and street lights. DOT supervises street resurfacing, pothole repair, parking meter installation and maintenance, and municipal parking facility management. DOT also operates the

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. DOT is the exclusive provider of day-to-day operations and maintenance on state-maintained roads and highways in city limits, while major repairs and capital improvements on state-owned roads are performed by the State DOT (

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). Both DOT and NYSDOT reserve the right to install signage, signals, and other roadway features on state highways, which then become maintained on a daily basis by DOT. DOT sets the speed limit on all roads and highways in the city, including those owned by NYSDOT. DOT is also responsible for oversight of transportation-related issues, such as authorizing jitney van services and permits for street construction. DOT also advocates for transportation safety issues, including promotion of pedestrian and

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. Its regulations are compiled in title 34 of the ''

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''.

Traffic and street lights

The first traffic lights in New York City originated from traffic towers installed along

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in Manhattan in the 1910s. The first such towers were installed in 1920 and were replaced in 1929 by bronze traffic signals. , the DOT oversaw 12,460 intersections citywide with traffic lights. By 2017, the DOT controlled nearly 13,000 signalized intersections, almost all of which had pedestrian signals; of these, over half (7,507) had countdown timers for pedestrians. In addition, 635 signalized intersections under the DOT's control had exclusive pedestrian phases . , the DOT maintained 548 accessible pedestrian signals for blind and visually impaired pedestrians. The first such signals were installed in 1957, but few accessible signals were added for the next half-century. In 2021, a federal judge ruled that the DOT had to install accessible signals at 9,000 intersections; the DOT plans to install these signals through 2031. All remaining intersections are planned to have accessible signals by 2036. The DOT maintains 250,000 streetlamps . Most of them are LED lamps, installed between 2013 and 2018. One of the larger groups of traffic restrictions implemented by the DOT is in

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, where the DOT maintains a system of "thru streets" and split traffic-signal phases to prevent congestion on west–east streets.

Organization

*Commissioner of Transportation **First Deputy Commissioner ***Sidewalk Inspection and Management ***Staten Island Ferry Service ***Bridges ***Transportation Planning & Management ***Roadway Repair and Maintenance ***Information Technology and Telecommunications ***Borough Commissioners ****Brooklyn Borough Commissioner ****Manhattan Borough Commissioner ****Bronx Borough Commissioner ****Queens Borough Commissioner ****Staten Island Borough Commissioner **Policy **External Affairs **Finance, Contracting, and Program Management **Human Resources and Facilities Management **Legal

Management and budget

As of 2017, DOT had the budget and staff as follows:FY 2017 City Budget
page 334E, New York City Office of Management and Budget

Bridges

The DOT operates 794 roadway and pedestrian bridges throughout New York City, including 25 movable bridges. The agency's portfolio includes most of the

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and

Harlem River The Harlem River is an tidal strait in New York City, flowing between the Hudson River and the East River and separating the island of Manhattan from the Bronx on the United States mainland. The northern stretch, also called the Spuyten Duyvi ...

bridges, as well as smaller bridges throughout the city. DOT operates two retractable bridges (the Borden Avenue and Carroll Street bridges). Other agencies that operate road bridges in New York include the MTA, the PANYNJ, and the

bridges: *

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* Manhattan Bridge * Williamsburg Bridge *

Queensboro Bridge The Queensboro Bridge, officially the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City. Completed in 1909, it connects the Long Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens with the Midtown Manhattan ...

* Roosevelt Island Bridge *

Wards Island Bridge The Wards Island Bridge, also known as the 103rd Street Footbridge, is a bridge crossing the Harlem River between Manhattan Island and Wards Island in the Manhattan borough of New York City that does not allow vehicular traffic. The vertical lif ...

bridges: * Willis Avenue Bridge * Third Avenue Bridge *

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* 145th Street Bridge * Macombs Dam Bridge * Washington Bridge * University Heights Bridge * Broadway Bridge

References

External links

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Department of Transportation
in the Rules of the City of New York
NYC DOT Real Time Traffic Information
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* Air pollution in New York City