Report on the 120 Bypass (Part 3 of 5)

Today we are going to look at Scenario Three which is a 4 lane Arterial/Boulevard By-pass

NOTE: Please read part one for an explanation of the terms I am using in this post.

Scenario 3: 4 lane Arterial/Boulevard By-pass

One caveat on these scenarios, is that they have been adjusted to take in the planned road improvements over the next 22 years, so for example Peterson's eventual widening to 4 lanes is taken into account. So using the same bullet points and spots we looked at in the earlier posts we see the following I am going to bold my observations on the changes.

• Look at the number for 120 at 83, 17,700 in 2008 but in 2030 the number is 19,200 indicating that the stretch of road is as full as it can be right now. So in 22 years the entire 4 lane 120 is as congested as a 4 lane road can be! But we add in the new 4 lane arterial concept and at 120 bypass and 83 we have 46,200 on a four lane road. In addition we have 19,700 on old 120. Which does demonstrate that lots of people want to drive east west in the county!
  
• Interstate 94 has 113,000 ADT in 2008. The new number is 163,100 in 2030. Very little change between the scenario 1, 2 and 3 here! Huge number increase however from 2008.
  
• Peterson Road has 9,400 ADT between 60 and Alleghany in 2008. With the widening the road is heavily congested at 19,800 ADT in 2030. Scenario 3 reduces the traffic here by 2,000 ADT the road.
  
• 60 has 14,200 just past Fremont Center in 2008. Now the traffic flows onto Peterson and not down 60 so the ADT is reduced to 10,200. In other words this traffic will be the same as it is today.
  
• Fairfield has 10,500 at Gilmer in 2008. The number here is 15,000 (serious congestion) in 2030. The number drops in scenario 2 to 12,300 and in scenario 3 it drops to 10,200. Not much change here
  
• Washington has 15,800 at 83 in 2008. The number in scenario 1 is 19,100 in 2030. In scenario 2 its now 17,100, still very serious congestion. Now in scenario 3 the traffic is 16,100.
  

This is the first scenario where we look at actually have built a road separate from existing 120, and we can start seeing reductions in traffic flow at various intersections that we are spotlighting. If you look at this scenario you see that the bypass concept works and it does reduce traffic.