Department of Transportation

noun

1. the department of the U.S. federal government that coordinates and institutes national transportation programs. DOT

Department of Transportation

1. A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the national highways and for railroad and airline safety. It also manages Amtrak, the national railroad system, and the Coast Guard.

Example Sentences

The city’s chronic underfunding of the Department of Transportation and street safety programs, exacerbated by budget crises, demonstrates misplaced priorities that treat traffic fatalities as an acceptable “cost of doing business.”

From Los Angeles Times

An order to boil water before drinking or using continued Thursday for some residents of Malibu following bridge construction work at Solstice Creek, according to the California Department of Transportation and Los Angeles County Waterworks.

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In Sawtelle, Los Angeles’ Department of Transportation removed the unsanctioned DIY project about two months after the first stripe was painted, prompting an outcry among community members.

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Twelve California Department of Transportation employees are facing disciplinary action following allegations that they attended a wild retirement party for a co-worker that involved heavy drinking and a hired stripper during work hours.

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Flores and a dozen others occupied empty homes owned by the California Department of Transportation, which the agency acquired by the hundreds a half-century ago for a freeway expansion that never happened.

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