New York State Department of Transportation

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New York State Department of Transportation

The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) is responsible for the development and operation of highways, railroads

Rail transport

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, mass transit systems, ports, waterways and aviation

Aviation

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facilities in the U.S. state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
of New York

New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. The current Commissioner of NYSDOT is Astrid Glynn.

This transportation network includes:

history of the New York State Department of Transportation and its predecessors spans over two centuries:

department comprises 11 regional offices and 68 county transportation maintenance residencies.

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History

The history of the New York State Department of Transportation and its predecessors spans over two centuries:

In 1781, the Office of Surveyor General
New York State Engineer and Surveyor

The New York State Engineer and Surveyor was a state cabinet officer in the State of New York between 1848 and 1926. During the re-organization of the state government under Governor Al Smith, the office was abolished and its responsibilities transferred to the Department of Public Works which was absorbed in 1967 by the New York State Depart...
was reorganized from its colonial Dutch and English beginnings to survey lands that had been vested in the state during and following the Revolutionary war.
In 1810, the Erie Canal Commission
Erie Canal Commission

The New York State Legislature appointed in 1810 a Commission to Explore a Route for a Canal to Lake Erie, and Report which became known as the Erie Canal Commission....
was established to build the Erie Canal
Erie Canal

The Erie Canal is a man-made waterway in New York state that runs about 365 miles from Albany on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes....
, and afterwards the canal commissioners oversaw maintenance and enlargement of the canals
In 1848, the Office of State Engineer and Surveyor
New York State Engineer and Surveyor

The New York State Engineer and Surveyor was a state cabinet officer in the State of New York between 1848 and 1926. During the re-organization of the state government under Governor Al Smith, the office was abolished and its responsibilities transferred to the Department of Public Works which was absorbed in 1967 by the New York State Depart...
succeeded the Surveyor General's Office.
In 1878, the Superintendent of Public Works
New York State Department of Public Works

The office of Superintendent of Public Works was created by an 1876 amendment to the New York State Constitution. It abolished the Erie Canal Commission and established that the Department of Public Works execute all laws relating to canal maintenance and navigation except for those functions performed by the New York State Engineer and...
took over the competences of the canal commissioners.
In 1907, the Public Service Commission assumed responsibility for the economic and safety regulation of privately operated transportation; railroad and bus safety inspection; and, approval for the installation of protection for or elimination of at-grade rail highway crossings.
In 1909, the New York State Department of Highways was established by the Highway Act.
In 1927, the Department of Public Works
New York State Department of Public Works

The office of Superintendent of Public Works was created by an 1876 amendment to the New York State Constitution. It abolished the Erie Canal Commission and established that the Department of Public Works execute all laws relating to canal maintenance and navigation except for those functions performed by the New York State Engineer and...
took over the competences of the State Engineer and Surveyor, unifying responsibility for highways, canals and public buildings,
In 1967, the New York State Department of Transportation was formed to deal with the state's complex transportation system, and absorbed among others the Department of Public Works.

Organization

The department comprises 11 regional offices and 68 county transportation maintenance residencies. Columbia and Tioga Counties were moved to adjacent regions in August 2006, Wayne County was moved from Region 3 to Region 4 in the late 1990s.

NYSDOT regions and the counties they serve are:

Region 1 (Capital District): Albany
Albany County, New York

Albany County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, and is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name is from the title of the Duke of York and Albany, who became James II of England....
, Columbia
Columbia County, New York

Columbia County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 63,094. The county seat is Hudson, New York....
, Essex
Essex County, New York

Essex County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 38,851. Its name is from the England county of Essex, England....
, Greene
Greene County, New York

Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Its name is in honor of the American Revolutionary War general, Nathanael Greene....
, Rensselaer
Rensselaer County, New York

Rensselaer County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 152,538. Its name is in honor of the family of Killiaen Van Rensselaer, the original Netherlands owner of the land in the area....
, Saratoga
Saratoga County, New York

Saratoga County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 200,635. It is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area....
, Schenectady
Schenectady County, New York

Schenectady County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 146,555. It is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area....
, Warren
Warren County, New York

Warren County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the Glens Falls, New York, Glens Falls metropolitan area. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 63,303....
, Washington
Washington County, New York

Washington County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the Glens Falls, New York, Glens Falls metropolitan area. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 61,042....
(Offices in Schenectady)
Region 2 (Mohawk Valley): Fulton
Fulton County, New York

Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 55,073. Its name is in honor of Robert Fulton, inventor of the first commercially-practical steamboat....
, Hamilton
Hamilton County, New York

Hamilton County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is named after Alexander Hamilton, the only member of the New York State delegation who signed the United States Constitution in 1787 and later the first United States Secretary of the Treasury....
, Herkimer
Herkimer County, New York

Herkimer County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It was created in 1791 out of part of Montgomery County. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 64,427....
, Madison
Madison County, New York

Madison County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 69,441. It is named after James Madison, fourth President of the United States of America....
, Montgomery
Montgomery County, New York

Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 at the Battle of Quebec ....
, Oneida
Oneida County, New York

Oneida County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 235,469. The county seat is Utica, New York....
(Offices in Utica)
Region 3 (Central New York): Cayuga
Cayuga County, New York

Cayuga County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It was named for one of the tribes of Native American in the Iroquois Confederation....
, Cortland
Cortland County, New York

Cortland County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, named after Pierre Van Cortlandt, president of the convention at Kingston, New York that wrote the first New York State Constitution in 1777, and first lieutenant governor of the state....
, Onondaga
Onondaga County, New York

Onondaga County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 458,336. The estimated population for 2004 is 459,805, an increase of 0.3%....
, Oswego
Oswego County, New York

Oswego County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of 2005, the estimated population was 118,560. The city of Oswego, New York serves as the county seat....
, Seneca
Seneca County, New York

Seneca County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 33,342. Two villages share the duty as the county seats: Ovid , New York and Waterloo , New York....
, Tompkins
Tompkins County, New York

Tompkins County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, and comprises the whole of the Ithaca, New York metropolitan area. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 96,501....
(Offices in Syracuse)
Region 4 (Finger Lakes): Genesee
Genesee County, New York

Genesee County is a county located in Western New York New York, United States. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 60,370....
, Livingston
Livingston County, New York

Livingston County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 64,328. It is named after Robert Livingston , delegate to the 1775 Continental Congress, member of the committee that drafted the United States Declaration of Independence, and father-in-law of Richard Montgomery, afte...
, Monroe
Monroe County, New York

Monroe County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 735,343. It is named after James Monroe, fifth President of the United States of America....
, Ontario
Ontario County, New York

Ontario County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. The county seat is the city of Canandaigua , New York. "Ontario" is a corruption of the Iroquois word meaning "beautiful water." The population of Ontario County in the United States Census 2000 was 100,224, up from 95,101 at the United States Census, 1990....
, Orleans
Orleans County, New York

Orleans County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 44,171. The county seat is Albion , Orleans County, New York....
, Wayne
Wayne County, New York

Wayne County is a County#United States located in the U.S. State of New York. It is part of the Rochester, New York metropolitan area and lies on the south shore of Lake Ontario, forming part of the northern border of the United States with Canada....
, Wyoming
Wyoming County, New York

Wyoming County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. At the United States Census 2000, the population was 43,424. The county seat is Warsaw , New York....
(Offices in Rochester)
Region 5 (Western New York): Cattaraugus
Cattaraugus County, New York

Cattaraugus County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 83,955. The county seat is Little Valley , New York....
, Chautauqua
Chautauqua County, New York

Chautauqua County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 139,750. Its name may be a contraction of a Seneca tribe Native American word meaning "bag tied in the middle"....
, Erie
Erie County, New York

County of Erie, commonly referred to as Erie County, is a Political subdivisions of New York State#County located in the U.S. state of New York....
, Niagara
Niagara County, New York

Niagara County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 219,846. The county seat is Lockport , New York....
(Offices in Buffalo)
Region 6 (Central Southern Tier): Allegany
Allegany County, New York

Allegany County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 49,927. Its name derives from a Lenape word, applied by settlers of Western New York State to a trail that followed the Allegheny River....
, Chemung
Chemung County, New York

Chemung County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the 'Elmira, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses all of Chemung County....
, Schuyler
Schuyler County, New York

Schuyler County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 19,224. The county seat is Watkins Glen, New York....
, Steuben
Steuben County, New York

Steuben County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 98,726. Its name is in honor of Baron von Steuben, Germany general who fought on the United States side in the American Revolutionary War, though it not pronounced the same....
, Yates
Yates County, New York

Yates County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 24,621. The county seat is Penn Yan, New York....
(Offices in Hornell)
Region 7 (North Country): Clinton
Clinton County, New York

Clinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 79,894. Its name is in honor of the first Governor of New York as a state, George Clinton ....
, Franklin
Franklin County, New York

Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 51,134. Its name is in honor of Benjamin Franklin, a notable man of the eighteenth century in the United States....
, Jefferson
Jefferson County, New York

Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 111,738. It is named after Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America, and president at the time the county was created in 1805....
, Lewis
Lewis County, New York

Lewis County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 26,944. It is named after Morgan Lewis , Governor of New York when the county was established....
, St. Lawrence
St. Lawrence County, New York

St. Lawrence County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 111,931. The county seat is Canton, New York....
(Offices in Watertown)
Region 8 (Hudson Valley): Dutchess
Dutchess County, New York

Dutchess County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. The United States Census 2000 lists the population as 280,150, but the United States Census Bureau gives an estimate of 292,706 residents for the 12-month period ending July 1, 2007....
, Orange
Orange County, New York

Orange County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the Poughkeepsie , New York–Newburgh , New York–Middletown, Orange County, New York, NY Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown metropolitan area and is located at the northern reaches of the New York City–Newark, New Jersey–Bridgeport, Connecticut...
, Putnam
Putnam County, New York

Putnam County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, in the lower Hudson Valley. Putnam county formed in 1812, when it detached from Dutchess County....
, Rockland
Rockland County, New York

Rockland County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, north-northwest of New York City. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area....
, Ulster
Ulster County, New York

Ulster County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, USA. It sits in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 177,749....
, Westchester
Westchester County, New York

Westchester County is a primarily suburban Political subdivisions of New York State#County located in the U.S. state of New York with about 950,000 residents....
(Offices in Poughkeepsie)
Region 9 (Southern Tier): Broome
Broome County, New York

Broome County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 200,536. It was named in honor of John Broome , who was lieutenant governor in 1806 when Broome County was established....
, Chenango
Chenango County, New York

Chenango County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 51,401. Its name is from an Oneida language word meaning "large bull-thistle." Its county seat is Norwich , New York....
, Delaware
Delaware County, New York

Delaware County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 48,055. The county seat is Delhi , New York....
, Otsego
Otsego County, New York

Otsego County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. The 2003 population estimate was 62,196, a 2.9% increase from 1990. The county seat is Cooperstown, New York....
, Schoharie
Schoharie County, New York

Schoharie County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. At the time of the United States Census 2000, the population was 31,582. It is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area....
, Sullivan
Sullivan County, New York

Sullivan County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. According to the 2007 estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau, the county's population was 76,303....
, Tioga
Tioga County, New York

Tioga County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 51,784. Its name derives from an Native American word meaning "at the forks," describing a meeting place....
(Offices in Binghamton)
Region 10 (Long Island): Nassau
Nassau County, New York

Nassau County is a suburban Political subdivisions of New York State#County in the New York Metropolitan Area east of New York City in the U.S....
, Suffolk
Suffolk County, New York

Suffolk County is a Political subdivisions of New York State#County located in the U.S. state of New York on the eastern portion of Long Island....
(Offices in Hauppage)
Region 11 (New York City): Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond (Offices in Long Island City, Queens)

New York State Department of Transportation

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