The Public Works Department manages and maintains over...

• 642 miles of sanitary sewer lines? 
• 927 miles of water lines?
• 78,000 street trees?
• 25,000 park trees?
• 64 buildings?
• 40 neighborhood parks?
• 135 miles of storm drain lines?
• 129 drinking water wells?
• 56 lift stations?
• 545 miles of streets?
• 72 miles of right-of-way, walls and medians?
• 763 miles of sidewalk?
• 19,900 traffic signs?
• 10,000 rockwells?
• 280 traffic signals?
• 12,700 street lights?
• $12 million in Capital Improvement Projects annually?

The City and Public Works Department ....

• control the traffic signals by a state-of-the-art advanced traffic management system known by the acronym A.T.M.S?
• operates the first publicly owned airport in the United States?
• has had continuous scheduled air service since 1947?
• Transit system carried over 3.2 million passengers last year?
• is in the midst of an expansion of the sewer treatment and wastewater collection system that will provide the sewer capacity needed for the next 10-20 years of anticipated growth in the community?
• initiated a program that enabled it to collect and recycle over 14,000 tons of waste from over 52,000 single family homes in the first year?
• launched a 'Two can' recycling program to aid in increasing diversion of recyclables and allow all residents and businesses to participate in recycling?
• contracts garbage collectors who pick up over 115,000 tons of burnable garbage each year?  And that burnable garbage is burned at the City/County Waste-to-Energy Plant to produce over 59.5 million kilowatt hours of electricity?

Other interesting facts:

• Dial-A-Ride carries 95,000 passengers per year.
• In October 1998, a review of large transit systems in the United States, conducted by the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, the City of Modesto's MAX Transit System was ranked 27th most cost effective, out of 135.
• MAX Transit System now provides bus service connecting Modesto and the Dublin/Pleasanton BART Station and also, Modesto and the Manteca/Lathrop ACE train station.
• In 1996, the Airport's contract tower controllers received the first perfect rating given by the Federal Aviation Administration Western Region,