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Department of Transportation facts

All statistics are for 2008 unless otherwise noted

Overall department facts

2008-2009 total biennial operating budget: $1.4 billion
Employees: 5,930 FTE

Service area
King County, Washington
2,134 square miles (1,755 square miles unincorporated)

Population served: more than 1.8 million

Road Services Division

Operations revenues:$110 million
Operations expenditures: $78 million
Capital improvement program revenues: $48 million
Capital improvement program expenditures: $55 million
Employees: 632 FTE
Miles of paved roads managed: 1,707
Miles of unpaved roads managed: 51
Traffic signals maintained: 114
Traffic signs maintained: more than 50,000

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Transit Division (Metro Transit)

Operations revenues: $510 million
Operations expenditures: $550 million
Capital program revenues: $216 million
Capital program expenditures: $101 million
Employees: 4,138 FTE
Bus operators: 2,694 FTE (included in 4,138 FTEs; approximately 70% of operators are full time)
Bus routes 212 (excluding Metro-operated Sound Transit and school routes)

Passenger boardings
Buses (Metro only): 118.8 million
Vanpools/Vanshares: 2.8 million
Access: 1.2 million

Vehicles: In 2008, Metro Transit operated a fleet of 1,508 buses and vans, including 115 Sound Transit buses.

Bus stops: 9,549 (active stops; does not include layover stops)

Commuter vanpools/vanshares
Vanpools in operation: 1,031
Vanshares in operation: 176
Total: 1,207

Learn more on Metro's current Facts and Figures page

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Airport Division (King County International Airport - Boeing Field)

Operations revenues: $17 million
Operations expenditures: $16 million
Capital program revenues: $21 million
Capital program expenditures: $13 million
Employees: 47 FTE
Take-offs, landings: more than 300,000
Tenants: 135
Total based aircraft: 438
Tie-downs: 181
Cargo moved: 123,000 tons
Fuel sold: 27 million gallons
Runways: 2
Runway length: 10,001 feet and 3,710 feet

Fleet Administration Division

Revenues: $24 million
Expenditures: $22 million
Employees: 76 FTE
Supply items issued: 63,112

Vehicles maintained
County vehicles: 2,439
Other agencies’ vehicles: 598

County fleet by type
Off-road: 590
Light-duty: 384
Medium duty trucks: NA
Heavy duty trucks: 200
Passenger vehicles: 1,265
Hybrid-electric vehicles: 182
Plug-in electric vehicles: 5

Annual vehicle miles driven: 19.8 million
Gallons of fuel consumed: 1.7 million

Public auctions conducted: 17
Gross auction revenue: $1 million

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