The primary responsibility of the Road and Bridge Department is to provide and maintain a safe roadway network for the traveling public. At the present time, this includes the maintenance of 1,439 miles of paved roads ranging from residential to urban arterial and 208 miles of unpaved roads. Along with the above tasks, 42 bridges, over 2,400 miles of roadway, drainage ditches and swales, drainage control structures, over 50,000 traffic control and informational signs, Thermo-Plastic roadway striping, and right-of-way mowing are under this department's jurisdiction. The right-of-way enhancement program adds and maintains a variety of trees, plants, bushes, shrubs, and other ground cover to selected medians on arterial and collector roadways.

Road and Bridge will continue to act as a support service for paving assessment and programmed maintenance and will assist with the construction and reconstruction of roads during Fiscal Year 2005. As in the past, the Department will continue to provide in-house services for Utilities Services, Parks and Recreation, Emergency Services, Emergency Management, Engineering Services, and Solid Waste/Resource Recovery. The infrastructure management (road inventory) program will continue to document and compile detailed information on all roadways, bridges, drainage structures, railroad crossings, and traffic control devices. This compilation of data is designed to document the County's infrastructure and produce detailed data for use as a management tool. Much of this information is available by accessing the County's mainframe computer system.

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