Orange Cone Updates
Project List
Mayor Sheila Dixon Presents...
OPERATION ORANGE CONE 2008!
On April 2, 2008, Mayor Sheila Dixon and Department of Transportation Director, Al Foxx announced the start of the Operation Orange Cone 2008, a major citywide campaign designed to highlight the increased number of construction projects earmarked this season. In 2007, the campaign helped set a record for completed construction projects by more than doubling the total lane miles repaved and repaired in 2006.
DOT Maintenance crews pose for
the photographer preparing milled
32nd St at St Paul St for the day’s
resurfacing.
The campaign will focus on resurfacing, milling and paving city roads, bridges and footways as well as creating streetscapes. Last year, the city paved an impressive 139 lane miles with an additional 51 lane miles underway at the end of the year. This year, the city has set a goal to complete 200 lane miles of repaving, representing the most significant capital improvement season in years and the most substantial increase of milling and paving projects ever.
“Last year, Operation Orange Cone was a major success for Baltimore,” said Mayor Dixon. “Challenging ourselves to do better required finding a new way of coordinating our resources to make road construction more efficient. This year we are going to build on our success and take Orange Cone to another level.”
The Zamboni just exited camera
frame left – 295 is as smo-o-o-o-oth
as ice.
In April 2007, Mayor Dixon announced Operation Orange Cone and the goal of doubling the number of lane miles that were repaved and repaired the previous year. By the end of the 2007 construction season, DOT completed more than 180 lane miles, more than doubling the construction total from 2006 and setting a new standard for future road construction campaigns.
“From day one, we have been working to build a cleaner, greener, safer and healthier Baltimore,” added Mayor Dixon. “I hope that with the success of Operation Orange Cone, I can now add ‘smoother’ to the list.”
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Charles St Streetscape is taking
shape! Look at all that ORANGE!
As long as the temperatures stay
warm, we’ll keep working.
Updated OOC information for 2008:
We Exceeded Our Goal!!!!
We have completed “220” Lane Miles this construction season which thrust Baltimore into a league of its own making this road improvement project the biggest in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
Bike Markings topped off at 10.85 lane miles. This is a double digit improvement. Our sidewalk revitalization project has repaired a total of 544,695 square feet. This effort has closed out approximately 4, 016 Service Requests!
And with a tip to Greening Baltimore and TreeBaltimore, we’ve de-‘pervioused’ 20,081 square feet for 343 Tree Pit locations.
With this upcoming construction season, the
Utility construction underway for the
Charles St Streetscape at Eager St.
improvements.
What a way to go Baltimore!!!
Please view photos of some of our OOC projects.