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Malone, Walter
From: Casey Covington [covington@metroplan.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 1:38 PM
To: Malone, Walter
Cc: 'Rebecca Barkley'
Subject: RE: Traffic Volumes on downtown streets
Walter,
Below are 2030 forecast we did for the bridges last fall
We took several methods for projecting trips, include scenarios were we keep the same number of trips
across the river and others were the number of trips across the river increased. Most of the work we
did was related to the Broadway Bridge closing, I do not remember doing the same level of analysis on
the Chester Bridge.
I will get with Rebecca and we will send you a summary of the impact on side streets in LR. Normally
at that level of detail we have to do some massaging of the data.
Casey
From: Malone, Walter [mailto:WMalone@littlerock.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 12:16 PM
To: covington@metroplan.org
Subject: FW: Traffic Volumes on downtown streets
Casey,
When you modeled the volumes for the three bridges and then with four river crossings, did you get
counts for the affects on the surrounding roads? If so, could I get those as well. (i.e. volume on Chester
beyond LaHarpe, volumes on Markham and LaHarpe between the bridges? ) And is the model just
redistributing the trips that would have already been there or are there new trips due to the connection?
If you do not have this from the work you have already done, I am not trying to ask for you to do a lot of
new work. Just let me know what you can get me relatively easily.
Thanks
Walter Malone, AICP
Planning Manager
-----Original Message -----
From: Malone, Walter
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:31 AM
To: 'Casey Covington'
Subject: RE: Traffic Volumes on downtown streets
2/2/2012
2010 Volume
2030 Forecast
2030 Forecast
(with widening 1-30)
Broadway Bridge
24,000
30,000
25,000
Main Street
11,000
20,000
15,000
1-30
124,000
135,000
155,000
Total Downtown
159,000
185,000
195,000
We took several methods for projecting trips, include scenarios were we keep the same number of trips
across the river and others were the number of trips across the river increased. Most of the work we
did was related to the Broadway Bridge closing, I do not remember doing the same level of analysis on
the Chester Bridge.
I will get with Rebecca and we will send you a summary of the impact on side streets in LR. Normally
at that level of detail we have to do some massaging of the data.
Casey
From: Malone, Walter [mailto:WMalone@littlerock.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 12:16 PM
To: covington@metroplan.org
Subject: FW: Traffic Volumes on downtown streets
Casey,
When you modeled the volumes for the three bridges and then with four river crossings, did you get
counts for the affects on the surrounding roads? If so, could I get those as well. (i.e. volume on Chester
beyond LaHarpe, volumes on Markham and LaHarpe between the bridges? ) And is the model just
redistributing the trips that would have already been there or are there new trips due to the connection?
If you do not have this from the work you have already done, I am not trying to ask for you to do a lot of
new work. Just let me know what you can get me relatively easily.
Thanks
Walter Malone, AICP
Planning Manager
-----Original Message -----
From: Malone, Walter
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:31 AM
To: 'Casey Covington'
Subject: RE: Traffic Volumes on downtown streets
2/2/2012
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Thanks but you also talk about 2030 in the memorandum - what the total cross river volume is and how much
might be removed from each bridge to a new bridge. But you did not give the projected volume of each bridge in
2030 (just the new bridge). I got the numbers from your website on 2010 and before.
Thanks
Walter
-----Original Message -----
From: Casey Covington [mailto:covington@metroplan.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:39 AM
To: Malone, Walter
Subject: Traffic Volumes on downtown streets
Walter
The most recent traffic volumes for downtown river crossings are 24,000 Broadway, 11,000 Main, and
124,000 1-30. The year before it was 24,000 Broadway, 12,000 Main, and 120,000 for 1-30.
Casey R. Covington, P.E., AICP
CARTS Study Director - Transportation Engineer
Metroplan - A Council of Local Governments
501 West Markham - Suite B
Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: (501) 372-3300
Fax: (501) 372-8060
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