Toronto Transportation Services Division

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The Toronto Transportation Services Division is a department of the Toronto municipal government. It is responsible for all public and non-provincially maintained roadways in Toronto. The department was called Metro Toronto Roads and Works.

Transportation Services is divided into 4 service divisions: Toronto & East York, North York, Scarborough and Etobicoke & York. The Transportation Services Division is responsible for:

road maintenance (approximately 10,033 different streets and 5,365km of roads)
Over 2,000 traffic signals
7,100 km of sidewalks
55 km of bike lanes, 15 km of bike trails, and 30 km of bike routes.
530 bridges
600 pedestrian crossovers
over one million signs
4100 bus shelters
5556 kilometres of roads
124 kilometres of expressways
1089 kilometres of main roads
814 kilometres of collector roads
3236 kilometres of local roads
293 kilometres of laneways
9500 streets
7100 kilometres of sidewalks

[edit] Snow Removal

The TTSD is responsible for snow removal on public roads, sidewalks and other public areas:

Total kilometres of ploughed sidewalks: 6,000

Total number of opened driveways: 262,000

There is a mix of city and contract staff/equipment used for snow removal:

592 Road ploughs
1 Melting machine - Metromelt
296 Sidewalk ploughs
211 Salt trucks
City Staff: 536
Contracted Staff: 1,068

Average Snowfall in city is 130 cm per year with 40 to 50 days of de-icing events per year

The city uses 10,220 tonnes of salt used in one storm and and average of 146,275 tonnes of salt is used each year (based on a ten-year average). The city's now removal budget is over $60 million a year (2006 Winter Operations Budget: $62.5 million)

Other duties the Transportation Services is also responsible for a wide variety of activities include: