Aurora / Colorado / United States
Aurora Public Works Department provides a variety of transportation services for the City of Aurora in Aurora, Colo. The public works department is responsible for providing safe, effective transportation within the City of Aurora through planning, design, construction and maintenance of the city roadways. The department employs people in various capacities to achieve the goals of the department. Service divisions under the management of Public Works are: administration, engineering, streets, traffic, real property, public improvement inspections and the materials laboratory. One of the department s special projects was a "Don t Drink and Drive" signing program in cooperation with the Colorado Department of Transportation. Aurora, a suburb of Denver, is Colorado s third largest city with a population of nearly 300,000 residents. In recent years, the city s steady growth has been responsible for an exponential increase in motor vehicle traffic.
