King County Road Services - Facts and figuresMission: Maintain, preserve, and improve the unincorporated King County road and bridge system for the safe and efficient movement of people, goods, and services, and quickly respond to storms, floods, and other emergencies. Vision: Road Services Division - A skilled, efficient, and innovative provider of quality roads in collaboration with unincorporated King County residents and all users of the unincorporated road system. Service area: Road Services is responsible for all county-owned road and bridge infrastructure in the unincorporated areas of King County, and also provides services to several cities and other agencies by contract. 2010 / 2011 Adopted Biennial Budget:
- $171 million Operating Budget
- $262.4 million Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Budget
Employees: 559 positions authorized in budget. Division Director: Paulette Norman, P.E. The numbers listed below are for the year 2009 unless otherwise indicated. Please note that they reflect a snapshot in time and are ever-changing.
| General information |
| Total King County area, square miles |
2,134 |
| Square miles served in unincorporated King County |
1,734 |
| Population of King County |
over 1.9 million |
| Population of unincorporated King County |
343,300 |
| Miles of paved roads managed |
1,691 |
| Miles of unpaved roads managed |
51 |
| Total county bridges (including five co-owned with cities) |
184 |
| County bridges replaced |
4 |
| City bridges inspected under contract |
139 |
| Requests for road maintenance service |
5,600 |
| Lane miles of road plowed/sanded |
15,069 |
| Lane miles of road swept |
11,870 |
| Linear feet of drainage ditch cleaned |
119,856 |
| Utility permits processed |
3,157 |
| Drainage projects completed |
126 |
| Catch basins cleaned |
5,738 |
| Traffic collisions analyzed |
2,130 |
| Traffic control signs maintained |
44,386 |
| Traffic signals maintained |
116 |
| Traffic counts performed |
1,330 |
| Traffic field investigations performed (citizen requests investigated) |
981 |
| Linear feet of guardrail installed |
14,850 |
| Total linear feet of county guardrail inventory (as of 2010) |
593,606 (112 miles) |
| Linear feet of road striping installed |
2,050 |
| New traffic cameras installed |
13 |
| Total traffic cameras operated |
52 |
| Ongoing contract services to cities |
Burien, Covington, Federal Way, Kenmore, Lake Forest Park, Maple Valley, Newcastle, Sammamish, SeaTac, Shoreline, Woodinville |
| As-needed services to cities/other agencies |
Algona, Auburn, Bellevue, Black Diamond, Bothell, Carnation, Des Moines, Duvall, Enumclaw, Issaquah, Kent, Kirkland, Medina, Mercer Island, Milton, Normandy Park, North Bend, Pacific, Redmond, Renton, Seattle, Snoqualmie, Tukwila, Sound Transit, and King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks |
| Capital improvement projects under active design |
61 |
| Projects under construction |
29 |
| Customers served by Map and Records Center (phone and walk-in) |
3,541 |
| Road Alert service subscribers |
3,901 |
| Road vacation applications processed |
13 |
| Archeological/historic project reviews |
84 |
| Adopt-A-Road volunteer groups |
268 |
| Miles of road adopted for litter control |
484 |
| Adopt-A-Road volunteer hours contributed since 1991 |
over 79,000 |
| Environmental reviews (SEPA/NEPA) completed |
33 |
| Local/state/federal permits applied for |
97 |
| Sensitive area mitigation sites monitored |
55 |
| Environmental studies performed (i.e., biological assessments, stream and wetland studies, fish and wildlife evaluations, vegetation surveys, geotechnical studies) |
106 |
Information from the Road Services Division's website is available to people with disabilities in alternate formats upon request by calling 206-263-6482 or 711 for the TTY relay service.  = External link
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