Department
Transportation





The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) is responsible for public way infrastructure, including planning, design, construction, maintenance and management.
CDOT handles:
- street, alley, sidewalk, and curb and gutter construction and maintenance
- bridge and viaduct construction and maintenance
- public way inspections and permitting
- signs and pavement markings
- traffic signals and streetlights
- red-light camera enforcement
- planter and median construction and maintenance
- bicycle and pedestrian programs
- ground-transportation planning