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I I I I I I I I I ! I I I I .I March 1995 Enterprise Park Traffic Study Anoka, Minnesota Background The area which now comprises the Anoka Enterprise Park Industrial Development Area was. relatively isolated-with access only indirectly to major roadways. A residential development is bet-ween the Enterprise Park area and Highway 47. Sunfish Lake Blvd. was quite far west and out of the way for most of the trips which the Enterprise area would generate. Highway 47 and Sunfish Lake Blvd. were the only two Burlington Northern railroad crossings in the area and the only connections to Highway 10. Figure 1 shows the location of Enterprise Park and the surrounding street system. To provide additional access into the area, two major roadways were developed. County Road 116 was extended across the Rum Kiver and connected to Bunker Lake Blvd. This prpvides an alternate to Highway 24.2/County Road 14 as an east/west roadway across mu.ch of Anoka County. It provides a continuous route connecting Lexington Avenue, Highway 65, Hanson Blvd., Round Lake Blvd., I-Iighway 47 and Ramsey Blvd. The other major road project was the constx'uction of Thurston A. venue from Highway 10 to County Road 116. This involved consb-uction of a bridge over the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks (the only grade separated railroad crossing between the Rum River and Elk River). This new bridge and road connection to H. ighway 10 provided direct access to Enterprise Park. County Road 116 and Thurston Avenue are also shown in Figure 1. The original concept was also to extend Thurston Avenue north to Nowthen Blvd. and an ultimate connection to St. Francis Blvd. This v-as a concept and was never formalized (See Figure 2). The A-ANOKA9501.00 Page 1