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(PROFILE) Fort Worth Transportation and Public Works Department Fort Worth’s Transportation and Public Works Department maintains 7,000 miles of street surface. Top Team W Fort Worth TPW’s employees strive to enhance lives in their work for the city. by Alan Dorich crossings, and 20,000 storm drains and inlets. “[Our] staff routinely analyzes and recommends transit and roadway projects that will reduce congestion, improve air quality and move traffic,” the city says. “We do all the planning and management of the capital improvement projects for all those different systems,” Simmons adds. “We also are responsible for the maintenance of most city buildings as well as the management of capital Fort Worth Transportation and Public Works Department www.fortworthgov.org 2011 budget: Approx. $83 million Headquarters: Fort Worth, Texas Employees: 600 Greg Simmons, acting director: “[My] people are interested in finding better ways to do things.” ith a population of 740,000, the city of Fort Worth, Texas, needs to keep its roads properly maintained so that people can easily get to their destinations. And that is the primary role of its Transportation and Public Works (TPW) Department, Acting Director Greg Simmons says. In the city, TPW maintains 7,000 miles of street surface, 700 miles of sidewalks, 500 miles of storm water channels, 17,000 street lights, 200 rail 66 (energy + infrastructure) winter/spring 2011 projects for new city buildings,” he says, adding that the TPW has an environmental management system that monitors the water and air quality issues for Fort Worth. Gratifying Work Simmons, who joined the TPW in 2001, holds a long background in this field. Previously, he was in the Civil Engineer Corps of the U.S. Navy, which manages public works functions for the Navy and Marine Corps. 

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Energy & Infrastructure - Winter/Spring 2011

Energy & Infrastructure - Winter/Spring 2011
Editor’s Page
Contents
Infrastructure Needs
Financing HSR
Nationwide Green
Unstable Scenario
News
Natural Solution
CARIBBEAN/PACIFIC ISLAND REGIONAL FOCUS
The National Gas Co. of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd.
Guam Power Authority
Jamaica Public Service
Belize Electricity Ltd.
Wärtsilä in the Caribbean and Puerto Rico
Port of Houston Authority
Oklahoma City Public Works – Project 180
Oak Creek Energy
Tres Amigas LLC
Northwest Territories Power Corp.
American Bituminous Power Partners
Fort Worth Transportation and Public Works Department
Environmental Dynamics
Paducah Power System
Last Look

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