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Ken Bibens

Ken Bibens

Kenneth Bibbins is Assistant Commissioner for Operations at New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) in Albany, a role he has held since May 1989.

Jul 14, 2026

12:26
What have been some of the other real world challenges that you can share with us that, you know, without giving any secrets away, but, um, that, that have happened where it was a hiccup and you had to scramble and, and folks were really working tight together?
12:41
So I, I'll use an example from last night that's a, you know, it's a good learning opportunity for us.
12:46
Uh, as you know, very, you know, dense mileage in the city of New York with, um, a unique way of completing maintenance tasks there.
12:56
We generally rely on contracting with the city DOT to do maintenance on our roads in addition to their roads.
13:03
So there's always transition points where their maintenance stops and our maintenance picks up.
13:08
Uh, last night with the weather coming, we had a, a question come up about a couple of drainage features, uh, on one of the, the heavier volume roadways, and it caused a very quick, uh, you know, research if you will, to say, "Well, yes, this is beyond this point.
13:23
It is ours to, to deal with," and then you, you hit the ground running on getting the issue dealt with.
16:29
Yeah

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