Kitrans

Kitrans, ( short for Kokomo Islands Department of Transportation ) is a transportation department developing and maintaining public infrastructure at the Kokomo Islands. Established in 1974 as a successor to the previous infrastructure department, Kokomo Islands Road Agency.

Kokomo Islands Road Agency
Before the independance of the Kokomo Islands, the only roads on the islands were local private roads around mobile homes and a road on Paradise Key known as Veterans Road, which connected the mobile home parks with a convenience store / gas station. After the independance, the government established the road development and maintaining department, Kokomo Islands Road Agency. The KIRA would plan, design and build the roads that were to be built on the Kokomo Islands. Funding came directly from the government.

In 1974, the roads that had been made by KIRA, had been bottlenecked with traffic, and many of the roads were already of bad quality. That's when the government decided to re-group the KIRA and rename it Kitrans, and change the position of the department from only Road Agency, to be in charge of all transportation on the Kokomo Islands. Funds now came from a temporary tax filed on hotel brands, known as the "Hotel Investment Tax", where hotels and resorts paid 10% taxes of all earnings to Kitrans. Along with the tax and general government funding, the Kitrans also started to rebuild bridges and widen roads using toll charges, which paid up to 50% of the costs of new projects.

Projects

 * New McConnell Bridge, finished 1982.
 * Widening of Coconut Road, finished 1980.

Road differences from the U.S
There are very few differences between the road layouts used in the United States and on the islands, simply because the government didn't want to spend too much money on creating a different styling. Road markings use the same coloring system as well as many of the basic traffic signs and devices. There are however some small differences, including lack of raised pavement markers, which is used in Florida. Some signs are also different.

Until 1976, the government bought all its signs except destination signs, from Florida. A contract with a company in Nassau, Bahamas was established afterwards and now construct all the signs.