Highway 371 North Improvement Project

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Hwy 371 North September 27, 2004 Page 2 of 11 half of the traffic on TH 371 are through trips and a little less than half of the present traffic is local. Thus, this highway needs to be designed to allow the through trips to get "in and out" without causing congestion for the local trips. The origin-destination survey was performed by MnDOT for Pequot Lakes on August 12 and 13, 2002. A video system monitoring license plates was set up on TH 371 north of town, on TH 371 south of town, and on CSAH 11 east of town. The video system monitored traffic into and out of town. The data was time-stamped. All this data was then analyzed to see where, what direction, and when a vehicle entered town and where, what direction, and when this same vehicle exited town. The data was broken into observations between two stations no more than ten minutes apart (straight thru trip),between ten minutes and one hour(extended thru trip),and not observed `leaving' (local traffic). The following summary showed that at least half of the traffic entering Pequot Lakes from each direction is thru traffic. Traffic coming in from the north Straight thru trip towards Nisswa=63% Straight thru trip towards Breezy = 7% Extended straight thru trip towards Nisswa= 6% Extended straight thru trip towards Breezy = 2% Local traffic = 22% Traffic coming in from the south Straight thru trip towards Pine River= 34% Straight thru trip towards Breezy= 11% Extended straight thru trip towards Pine River= 5% Extended straight thru trip towards Breezy = 3% Local traffic =47% Traffic coming in from the east Straight thru trip towards Nisswa=28% Straight thru trip towards Pine River= 14% Extended straight thru trip towards Nisswa= 7% Extended straight thru trip towards Pine River= 3% Local traffic=48% CADocuments and SettingAAdministratoALocal SettingATemporary Internet File§OLKB\Comments for Council to consider sending to MnDOT 092704-memo.doc