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#KnoxvilleJobDone: City Engineers Build and Maintain Miles and Miles of Infrastructure

Did you know that the City’s Engineering Department each year oversees the paving of about 50 miles of streets and the repair and new construction of about 3.2 miles of sidewalk?

This week is National Public Works Week, so it’s an appropriate time to salute the accomplishments of the City’s hard-working public works employees. Today, we’re highlighting the Engineering Department.

City engineers are currently managing 23 infrastructure construction projects, funded at $42.4 million, with 43 additional projects in the engineering design stage.

From left: Daniel Dyer, Cody Reagan and Craig Pryputniewicz perform construction surveying for a sidewalk project

Did you also know that the City’s Engineering Department maintains 392 signalized traffic signals, 1,200 parking meters, 1,100 miles of street markings, 50,000 roadway signs and 30,000 streetlights?

In addition, Engineering has rehabilitated or replaced more than 2,600 linear feet of storm sewer pipe this fiscal year.

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Martin Bradley inspects one of the 2020 resurfacing projects.

Pictured above: Martin Bradley inspects one of the dozens of 2020 resurfacing projects

Traffic Systems crew members Logan Haynes and Casey Long performing visual and technical inspections of the new traffic signals on the TDOT Western Avenue Project.

Above: Traffic Systems crew members Logan Haynes and Casey Long perform visual and technical inspections of the new traffic signals on the TDOT Western Avenue Project

For more details, visit the Engineering Department’s webpage:

www.knoxvilletn.gov/engineering

Or click here for thumbnails of the Engineering Department’s Capital Improvement Projects.

Posted by evreeland On 24 October, 2024 at 11:01 AM