The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) is a state government organization in charge of maintaining public roadways of the U.S. state of Kansas.
Organization
Secretary of Transportation
Deputy Secretary of Transportation and State Transportation Engineer
Like the majority of state government agencies, Caltrans is headquartered in Sacramento.
History
The earliest predecessor of Caltrans was the Bureau of Highways, which was created by the California Legislature and signed into law by Governor James Budd in 1895. This agency consisted of three commissioners who were charged with analyzing the state road system and making recommendations. At the time, there was no state highway system, since roads were purely a local responsibility. California's roads consisted of crude dirt roads maintained by county governments, as well as some paved roads within city boundaries, and this ad hoc system was no longer adequate for the needs of the state's rapidly growing population. After the commissioners submitted their report to the governor on November 25, 1896, the legislature replaced the Bureau with the Department of Highways.
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT or WashDOT) was established in 1905. The agency, led by a Secretary and overseen by the Governor, is a Washington governmental agency that constructs, maintains, and regulates the use of the state's transportation infrastructure. WSDOT is responsible for more than 20,000 lane-miles of roadway, nearly 3,000 vehicular bridges and 524 other structures. This infrastructure includes rail lines, state highways, state ferries (considered part of the highway system) and state airports
History
WSDOT was originally founded as the Washington State Highway Board and the Washington State Highways Department on March 13, 1905, when then-governor Albert Mead signed a bill that gave $110,000 USD to fund new roads that linked the state. The State Highway Board was managed by State Treasurer, State Auditor, and Highway Commissioner Joseph M. Snow and the Board first met on April 17, 1905 to plan the 12 original state roads. The first state highway districts, each managed by a District Engineer, were established in 1918. During this period, the construction of highways began.
The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) is an agency of the state government of Utah, United States; it is usually referred to by its initials UDOT (pronounced "you-dot"). UDOT is charged with maintaining the more than 6,000 miles (9,700km) of roadway that constitute the network of state highways in Utah. The agency is headquartered in the Calvin L. Rampton state office complex in Taylorsville, Utah.
The Executive Director is Carlos Braceras and the Deputy Director is Shane Marshall. Project priorities are set forth by the independent Utah Transportation Commission, which coordinates directly with the UDOT's executive director.
Structure
UDOT maintains over 6,000 miles (9,700km) of highways. The department strategic goals include preserve infrastructure, optimize mobility, zero fatalities and strengthen the economy. While the agency has maintenance stations throughout the state, for organizational purposes they are grouped into four regions.
Kansasi/ˈkænzəs/ is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind", although this was probably not the term's original meaning. Residents of Kansas are called "Kansans". For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. Kansas was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue.
When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists eventually prevailed, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland. Today, Kansas is one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans. Kansas is the 15th most extensive and the 34th most populous of the 50 United States.
The Kansas River (also known as the Kaw; via French Cansez from kką:ze, the name of the Kaw (or Kansas) tribe) is a river in northeastern Kansas in the United States. It is the southwestern-most part of the Missouri Riverdrainage, which is in turn the northwestern-most portion of the extensive Mississippi River drainage. Its name (and nickname) come from the Kanza (Kaw) people who once inhabited the area. The state of Kansas was named for the river.
The river valley averages 2.6 miles (4.2km) in width, with the widest points being between Wamego and Rossville, where it is up to 4 miles (6.4km) wide, then narrowing to 1 mile (1.6km) or less in places below Eudora. Much of the river's watershed is dammed for flood control, but the Kansas River is generally free-flowing and has only minor obstructions, including diversion weirs and one low-impact hydroelectric dam.
Course
Beginning at the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers, just east of aptly named Junction City (1,040 feet or 320 metres), the Kansas River flows some 148 miles (238km) generally eastward to join the Missouri River at Kaw Point (718 feet or 219 metres) in Kansas City. Dropping 322 feet (98m) on its journey seaward, the water in the Kansas River falls less than 2 feet per mile (38cm/km). The Kansas River valley is only 115 miles (185km) long; the surplus length of the river is due to meandering across the floodplain. The river's course roughly follows the maximum extent of a Pre-Illinoian glaciation, and the river likely began as a path of glacial meltwater drainage.
The Emerald City of Oz is shown in the background.
In the Characters' Past
In the Emerald City of Oz, Zelena watches Rumplestiltskin train Regina through the portal, as she plots her scheme to destroy her half-sister. Glinda then arrives to tell Zelena about her true destiny, and wants her to meet her real sisters, who then offer her a chance to become the Witch of the West after she is introduced. Glinda tells them that Zelena doesn't have to be wicked, but believes that she can be good, if she can put aside her vengeance against Regina. However, the sisters tell Zelena of a book that Glinda keeps that foretells the arrival of a person to Oz in a cyclone, and Zelena is led to believing that she was the one they were looking for. Glinda, on the behalf of her sisters, then give Zelena the light pendant that will harness and protect her as it grows her powers, but tells her that once it is removed she will be powerless. After she takes the pendant her green skin disappears. Moments later after Glinda shows her the land she is giving to Zelena, both Glinda and Zelena witness a green cyclone arriving and it reveals debris being left behind and along with it, a young girl from the outside world, who Zelena finds among the rubble. She tells them that her name is Dorothy Gale and when they ask her where she is from, Dorothy tells them she is from Kansas but wants to know where she is and their names. When Glinda suggests that they take Dorothy to meet the sisters, Zelena's jealousy starts to reemerge.
California Department of Transportation removes homeless encampment near Highway 140 in Merced
California Department of Transportation employees and the California Highway Patrol, work to remove a homeless encampment near the Bradley Overpass and Highway 140 at Kelly Avenue, in Merced, Calif., Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. Residents of the encampment were given notice to vacate the property owned by the California Department of Transportation, four days ago.
published: 27 Jan 2015
Caltrans HQ-On the Job with Caltrans-Maintenance Operations
In our latest installment of the "On the Job with Caltrans" series, we focus on what it takes to keep state highways moving safely for travelers. Director Malcolm Dougherty shadowed Caltrans crews in Los Angeles and recognized the incredible work that the 6,000 men and women in the state's Division of Maintenance do when responding to emergencies, clearing snow, fixing guardrail and potholes, changing lightbulbs and keeping traffic signals operable -- in other words, ensuring motorists' safety!
published: 10 Dec 2013
Jesse Iwuji - Clean California PSA :30
published: 19 Mar 2024
California Department of Transportation Ferguson Project Kick-off
The California Department of Transportation held a Ferguson Project Kick-off ceremony to announce plans to re-open a section of Highway 140 covered by the Ferguson Rockslide in Mariposa County, Calif., Friday, March 13, 2015. Construction of the $133 million project is expected to begin in 2016.
published: 14 Mar 2015
California Dept. of Transportation issues 'notice to vacate' at homeless encampment in National City
Fed up over the growing homeless encampments in San Diego's South Bay along the 805 freeway, National City Mayor Alejandra Sotelo-Solis said the city has done clean-ups and tried to provide resources to those living in tents, seen visibly from both sides of the 805.
Full story at CBS8.com: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/california-dept-of-transportation-issues-notice-to-vacate-at-homeless-encampment-in-national-city/509-07df547f-a36c-4291-9c87-1e82fd21841d
published: 19 May 2021
Transport crew blows up boulders blocking California road
An explosives crew from the California Department of Transportation blew up boulders blocking a section of a highway near Lake Tahoe after a rockfall. #shorts
published: 05 Jan 2023
Clean California - Odiseo Castrejón PSA :30
published: 10 Sep 2024
Get the Facts: Third Mode of Transportation
High-speed rail is a solution in search of a problem? Get the facts from the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California about why there is a need for a third mode of transportation in this state. Get more facts at https://buildhsr.com/get_the_facts/
published: 17 May 2018
Caltrans, LA Invests Millions In Jobs Programs For Former Convicts
The program will give people who were behind bars training to get a job maintaining and cleaning roads. Suzanne Marques reports.
California Department of Transportation employees and the California Highway Patrol, work to remove a homeless encampment near the Bradley Overpass and Highway ...
California Department of Transportation employees and the California Highway Patrol, work to remove a homeless encampment near the Bradley Overpass and Highway 140 at Kelly Avenue, in Merced, Calif., Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. Residents of the encampment were given notice to vacate the property owned by the California Department of Transportation, four days ago.
California Department of Transportation employees and the California Highway Patrol, work to remove a homeless encampment near the Bradley Overpass and Highway 140 at Kelly Avenue, in Merced, Calif., Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. Residents of the encampment were given notice to vacate the property owned by the California Department of Transportation, four days ago.
In our latest installment of the "On the Job with Caltrans" series, we focus on what it takes to keep state highways moving safely for travelers. Director Malco...
In our latest installment of the "On the Job with Caltrans" series, we focus on what it takes to keep state highways moving safely for travelers. Director Malcolm Dougherty shadowed Caltrans crews in Los Angeles and recognized the incredible work that the 6,000 men and women in the state's Division of Maintenance do when responding to emergencies, clearing snow, fixing guardrail and potholes, changing lightbulbs and keeping traffic signals operable -- in other words, ensuring motorists' safety!
In our latest installment of the "On the Job with Caltrans" series, we focus on what it takes to keep state highways moving safely for travelers. Director Malcolm Dougherty shadowed Caltrans crews in Los Angeles and recognized the incredible work that the 6,000 men and women in the state's Division of Maintenance do when responding to emergencies, clearing snow, fixing guardrail and potholes, changing lightbulbs and keeping traffic signals operable -- in other words, ensuring motorists' safety!
The California Department of Transportation held a Ferguson Project Kick-off ceremony to announce plans to re-open a section of Highway 140 covered by the Fergu...
The California Department of Transportation held a Ferguson Project Kick-off ceremony to announce plans to re-open a section of Highway 140 covered by the Ferguson Rockslide in Mariposa County, Calif., Friday, March 13, 2015. Construction of the $133 million project is expected to begin in 2016.
The California Department of Transportation held a Ferguson Project Kick-off ceremony to announce plans to re-open a section of Highway 140 covered by the Ferguson Rockslide in Mariposa County, Calif., Friday, March 13, 2015. Construction of the $133 million project is expected to begin in 2016.
Fed up over the growing homeless encampments in San Diego's South Bay along the 805 freeway, National City Mayor Alejandra Sotelo-Solis said the city has done c...
Fed up over the growing homeless encampments in San Diego's South Bay along the 805 freeway, National City Mayor Alejandra Sotelo-Solis said the city has done clean-ups and tried to provide resources to those living in tents, seen visibly from both sides of the 805.
Full story at CBS8.com: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/california-dept-of-transportation-issues-notice-to-vacate-at-homeless-encampment-in-national-city/509-07df547f-a36c-4291-9c87-1e82fd21841d
Fed up over the growing homeless encampments in San Diego's South Bay along the 805 freeway, National City Mayor Alejandra Sotelo-Solis said the city has done clean-ups and tried to provide resources to those living in tents, seen visibly from both sides of the 805.
Full story at CBS8.com: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/california-dept-of-transportation-issues-notice-to-vacate-at-homeless-encampment-in-national-city/509-07df547f-a36c-4291-9c87-1e82fd21841d
An explosives crew from the California Department of Transportation blew up boulders blocking a section of a highway near Lake Tahoe after a rockfall. #shorts
An explosives crew from the California Department of Transportation blew up boulders blocking a section of a highway near Lake Tahoe after a rockfall. #shorts
An explosives crew from the California Department of Transportation blew up boulders blocking a section of a highway near Lake Tahoe after a rockfall. #shorts
High-speed rail is a solution in search of a problem? Get the facts from the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California about why there is a n...
High-speed rail is a solution in search of a problem? Get the facts from the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California about why there is a need for a third mode of transportation in this state. Get more facts at https://buildhsr.com/get_the_facts/
High-speed rail is a solution in search of a problem? Get the facts from the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California about why there is a need for a third mode of transportation in this state. Get more facts at https://buildhsr.com/get_the_facts/
California Department of Transportation employees and the California Highway Patrol, work to remove a homeless encampment near the Bradley Overpass and Highway 140 at Kelly Avenue, in Merced, Calif., Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. Residents of the encampment were given notice to vacate the property owned by the California Department of Transportation, four days ago.
In our latest installment of the "On the Job with Caltrans" series, we focus on what it takes to keep state highways moving safely for travelers. Director Malcolm Dougherty shadowed Caltrans crews in Los Angeles and recognized the incredible work that the 6,000 men and women in the state's Division of Maintenance do when responding to emergencies, clearing snow, fixing guardrail and potholes, changing lightbulbs and keeping traffic signals operable -- in other words, ensuring motorists' safety!
The California Department of Transportation held a Ferguson Project Kick-off ceremony to announce plans to re-open a section of Highway 140 covered by the Ferguson Rockslide in Mariposa County, Calif., Friday, March 13, 2015. Construction of the $133 million project is expected to begin in 2016.
Fed up over the growing homeless encampments in San Diego's South Bay along the 805 freeway, National City Mayor Alejandra Sotelo-Solis said the city has done clean-ups and tried to provide resources to those living in tents, seen visibly from both sides of the 805.
Full story at CBS8.com: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/california-dept-of-transportation-issues-notice-to-vacate-at-homeless-encampment-in-national-city/509-07df547f-a36c-4291-9c87-1e82fd21841d
An explosives crew from the California Department of Transportation blew up boulders blocking a section of a highway near Lake Tahoe after a rockfall. #shorts
High-speed rail is a solution in search of a problem? Get the facts from the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California about why there is a need for a third mode of transportation in this state. Get more facts at https://buildhsr.com/get_the_facts/
The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) is a state government organization in charge of maintaining public roadways of the U.S. state of Kansas.
Organization
Secretary of Transportation
Deputy Secretary of Transportation and State Transportation Engineer
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