DIVISION OF
TRAFFIC ENGINEERING
Some of the many activities performed by Traffic Engineering include:
- Maintenance and daily operation
of the city's computerized traffic control system,
- Issuing permits to contractors and others whose
activities require lane blockages,
- Street lighting plans for pole placement,
- Technical assistance
investigation and layout for signs and markings, including site determination, sizing, and placement
reviews of new subdivision and commercial development plats and plans to ensure that easements are properly
located and adhered to first-line response for emergency signal repair
- Signs and pavement markings
- Handling pavement markings for street lanes, edging, parking, intersection control and curbs.
In addition, the division works with neighborhoods to address quality of life issues that are the result of traffic-related
problems such as speeding and cut-through traffic in efforts to alter driver behavior by focusing on psychological
and physical changes to residential roadways. A wide menu of traffic calming options are available, and professional
staff in the Division of Traffic Engineering are available to work directly with interested neighborhoods.
Traffic Engineering consists of three distinct operations:
New Development
Redevelopment, new development,
streetlighting, and signals-related
construction.
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Computerized signal system
Traffic signal timing, traffic information,
cameras, and electronic repairs.
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Neighborhood Traffic Management, Signs, Markings
Signs, pavement markings and traffic calming.
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Today's Traffic Briefing - Lexington and Central Kentucky
T-M-C Hotline - (859) 258-3611:
Phone from home, work, or from your vehicle, while in traffic. Check current traffic conditions
during drive times (6-9AM and 4-6 PM), Monday through Friday. Hear lane blockage information
24/7. And, select from a menu of choices which follows the initial recording.
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