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Department of Transportation facts for 2007

Overall department facts

2007 total operating budget: $607 million
Employees: 4,232 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

2007 operating budget :$76 million
Employees: 653 FTE
Miles of paved roads managed: 1,795
Miles of unpaved roads managed: 54
Miles of contract roads managed: 763
Traffic signals maintained: 127
Traffic signs maintained: more than 47,000

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Transit Division (Metro Transit)

2007 operating budget: $503 million
Employees: 3,421 FTE
Bus operators: 2,178 FTE (included in 3,421 FTEs; approximately 70% of operators are full time)
Bus routes 222 (excluding Metro-operated Sound Transit and school routes)

Passenger boardings
Buses (Metro only): 110.6 million
Vanpools/Vanshares: 2.3 million
Access: 1.1 million

Vehicles: In 2007, Metro Transit operated a fleet of 1,429 buses and vans, including 115 Sound Transit buses.

Bus stops: 9,510 (active stops; does not include layover stops)

Commuter vanpools/vanshares
Vanpools in operation: 845
Vanshares in operation: 179
Total: 1,024

Learn more on Metro's current Facts and Figures page

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Airport Division (King County International Airport - Boeing Field)

2007 operating budget: $13.5 million
Employees: 46 FTE
Take-offs, landings: more than 305,000
Tenants: 150
Total based aircraft: 489
Tie-downs: 206
Cargo moved: 129,000 tons
Fuel sold: 22 million gallons
Runways: 2
Runway length: 10,001 feet and 3,710 feet

Fleet Administration Division

2007 operating budget: $27.1 million
Employees: 76 FTE
Supply items issued: 64,646

Vehicles maintained
County vehicles: 2,386
Other agencies’ vehicles: 614

County fleet by type
Off-road: 582
Light-duty: 278
Medium duty trucks: 145
Heavy duty trucks: 150
Passenger vehicles: 1,231
Hybrid-electric vehicles: 167
Plug-in electric vehicles: 1

Annual vehicle miles driven: 18.6 million
Gallons of fuel consumed: 1.6 million

Public auctions conducted: 20
Gross auction revenue: $1.2 million

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