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Pequot Lakes-Hwy 371 North <br /> October 8, 2004 <br /> Page 2 of 13 <br /> roads be completed before any Trunk Highway construction/access interruption begins. <br /> 2. MnDOT should install pre-emption equipment on any stoplights as part of the project. <br /> 3. The City would like to know of the County's comments to MnDOT and would like to have <br /> more interaction with the County and MnDOT(I believe there is a concern that MnDOT gets <br /> separate comments from the City and then separate comments from the County, instead of <br /> joint comments from both when it is a City/County issue). <br /> 4. FYI: Generally speaking, as described in an origin-destination report mentioned below, at <br /> least half of the traffic on TH 371 are through trips and a little less than half of the present <br /> traffic is local. <br /> Thus, this highway needs to be designed to allow the through trips to get "in and out" <br /> without causing congestion for the local trips. <br /> The origin-destination survey was performed by MnDOT for Pequot Lakes on August 12 and <br /> 13, 2002. <br /> A video system monitoring license plates was set up on TH 371 north of town, on TH 371 <br /> `.. south of town, and on CSAH 11 east of town. The video system monitored traffic into and <br /> out of town. The data was time-stamped. <br /> All this data was then analyzed to see where, what direction, and when a vehicle entered <br /> town and where, what direction, and when this same vehicle exited town. <br /> The data was broken into observations between two stations no more than ten minutes apart <br /> (straight thru trip),between ten minutes and one hour(extended thru trip),and not observed <br /> `leaving' (local traffic). <br /> The following summary showed that at least half of the traffic entering Pequot Lakes from <br /> each direction is thru traffic. <br /> Traffic coming in from the north <br /> Straight thru trip towards Nisswa= 63% <br /> Straight thru trip towards Breezy = 7% <br /> Extended straight thru trip towards Nisswa=6% <br /> Extended straight thru trip towards Breezy =2% <br /> Local traffic=22% <br /> CA\My DocumentsWity ClerMIGHWAY 371\Comments to MnDOT-100804-memo.doc <br />