American Dream

VDOT paves way for access to performance
BY PETER BACQUE
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Quotes:

Is that road-widening down the street ever going to be finished?

How about if your subdivision street's up for repaving -- and when's it going to happen?

Are our roads any safer these days? Does VDOT care about the environment? And what's all this going to cost?

Now you can find out.

And if you don't like it, you can tell VDOT's top brass just exactly what you think about it.

Outgoing state Transportation Commissioner Philip Shucet introduced his legacy to the public yesterday -- a much-expanded performance reporting system for VDOT's work, now openly available on the Internet.

When the Virginia Department of Transportation put its first Dashboard version on the Internet two years ago, "It scared a whole lot of us, including me," Shucet said.

But VDOT gets almost $3 billion in taxpayer money a year and "that situation demands the highest level of accountability," Shucet said at his last meeting with the department's senior staff.

VDOT's Dashboard