City of Kingsport Public Works

Transportation Dept Traffic Division

Traffic Sign Department

Maintains about 30,000 street name signs

The traffic division has the city divided into 20 areas, and changes all the signs in 2 areas every year. This gives us our full Warranty on our signs that are guaranteed for 10 years. This allows us to keep New Signs up at all times.

We set up all Work Zones and Road Closings thru out the City of Kingsport

We do all the blockings for all road races, and race walks every year. ( not to mention the City of Kingsport holds the Worlds Record in the men and women's 8k

We do all the blocking for fun fest, car shows, Broad St Bashes etc

We take our old signs and have the faces sanded down and Re-use the metal, so that makes us Recyclable friendly.

We pull all signs from the City's Right of Way to keep the Right of Way clean

We Block for all the parades such as Fun Feat, Christmas, 4^th of July, Martin Luther

Markings

We paint all of the city's parking spaces in all of the lots and all the on street spaces, handi cap, loading zones, yellow curbs, etc

We install all the Crosswalks, School Crossings, Arrows only, Yields and Stop Bars

We Paint about 250 miles of roadway every year.

We use 3M materials, Thermoplastic materials and Pre-Mark materials and paint

Traffic Signals

We maintain about 105 Traffic Signals

We Re-Lamp half of these signals every year which gives us 2 years of life for our Traffic signal bulbs

We maintain about 10 Closed Loop Systems in the City of Kingsport

We do new Traffic Signal Installations and Up-grades

We hang all Flags, Banners, and Christmas decorations here in the city which includes but is not limited to Fun Fest, Volunteer Kingsport, United Way, and 8 different flag occasions, Christmas banners, etc

Street Lights

We maintain all the parking lot lights and High Mast Lights @ I-81 and Ft Henry Dr.

City Of Kingsport has over 9,000 street lights

Performance Indicators

Performance Measure	01-02	01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05
Work orders received	129	125	125	100	100
Work orders completed	120	125	125	100	100
Traffic count performed	64	175	139	85	85
Traffic signs installed	160	250	250	100	200
Traffic signs maintained	984	1200	1200	610	1000
Street miles painted	71	65	58	60	65
Traffic signals install/upgraded	18	8	8	2	8
Traffic signal maintenance calls	425	425	425	685	600
Street lights maintained	8400	8500	8700	8800	8900
Street lights Installed	131	80	69	80	120
Work Zone Request	210	210	220	200	220

All THE ABOVE IS DONE EACH YEAR WITH 10 EMPLOYEES:

Tony Dingus (Traffic Maintenance Technician)

Randy Williams (Traffic Maintenance Technician)

Dave Falin (Traffic Maintenance Technician)

Trevor Bellamy (Traffic Maintenance Technician)

Rick Harris (Traffic Maintenance Technician)

Kevin Long (Traffic Maintenance Technician)

Mike Corder (Traffic Maintenance Technician)

Richard Page (Traffic Control Technician)

Ray Hensley (Traffic Control Technician)

Supervisor Andy Hobbs

Traffic Engineer Mike Thompson

Traffic Engineer Tech. Jimmy Hensley

Compliant Numbers are 423 224-2427 423 224-2424

Hours are from 7:30-4:00 pm

You may request service/report problem from our Traffic Department. Each request will be answered as promptly as possible.