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Clean & Safe Streets
The streets system in Philadelphia totals 2,575 miles - 2,180 miles of city streets, 35 miles of Fairmount Park roads, and 360 miles of state highways.
The Highway Division builds and maintains 2,040 miles of this system.
The Sanitation Division collects and disposes of approximately 790,000 tons of rubbish a year.
The Highway and Sanitation Division work together in salting and plowing 2,290 miles of streets.
The Bureau of Survey & Design is responsible for legal plan records and engineering services for the street system and 320 bridges.
The Traffic Engineering Unit has 2,800 signalized intersections, 15,000 conventional stop intersections, and 3,000 all-way stop
intersections under its jurisdiction.
The Street Lighting Division is responsible for 100,000 street lights and 18,000 alley lights.
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