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June 6, 2007

DOT experts to save $500,000 on consolidation

The state Department of Transportation says in a news release today it will save nearly $500,000 per year when its merges two units -- the traffic-jam monitoring Transportation Management Center and the Maintenance Dispatch section -- into one.

They will be consolidated on July 2.

The transportation department "did a cost-benefit analysis as well as a pilot program earlier this year,” said Jerome F. Williams, the DOT director. “Once combined, the Department will save $498,000 by reducing the current 16 positions that perform these services down to 11.”

The Transportation Management Center alerts the media and others to accidents and other situations that have occurred so the public knows areas of various roads to sidestep because of delays.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 3:47 PM | Permalink

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