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from t-Iighway 47 to use Thurston Avenue. The travel time is longer . <br /> <br />Enterprise Park Traffic Study <br /> <br />via Thurston Avenue, and will increase when Ente~rise Park is <br />totally compIeted. This could be influenced by major changes in the <br />orientation of Highway 47 and County Road 116 intersection. <br /> <br />The Anoka Hermepin Technical College is located adjacent .to <br />Thurston Avenue and Highway I0. Much of the traffic uses <br />Thurs~n Avenue and the frontage rOad to reach the parking areas. <br />This traffic creates op.':.rational problems at the Thurston Avenue <br />intersection. Traffic control now favors the movement to and from <br />the college, but will change with tr~ 6qc growth on Thurston Avenue. <br /> <br />Highway 10 <br /> <br />Traffic volumes on Highway 10 are steadily growing. However, a <br />long range pa~ern is d~cult to establish because of changes in road <br />systems. The opening of Interstate 94, the completion of the <br />Highway 10 bypass around Anoka and the problems and proposed <br />corus'truCdon of Highway 101 all influence the volume growth_ Table <br />A-2 and Figure A-4 in the Appendix shows the growth over the past <br />30 years. 1992 volumes on Highway 10 west of Thurston Avenue are <br />31,000 vehicles per day. <br /> <br />Future Volumes <br /> <br />The A_noka County Comprehensive Transportation P/an Projected <br />average daily traffic (ADT) volumes for Flighway 10 in the year 2010 <br />at 32,500 just west of the Main Street interchange. This was <br />compared with an estimated 1986 ADT of 32,000. Current traffic <br />volumes are 39,000, indicating that there will be changes in the road <br />system impacting the volumes on Highway 10. The changes include <br />Cae completion of Highway 610 from the Mississippi River west to <br />Interstate 94 in Hennepin Count, the upgTading at Highway 101 <br />from Interstate 94 to Elk River, construction of a new river crossing <br />bridge near Ramsey Blvd. and completion of several other state and <br />court ,fy road projects. Figure I6 from the Anoka Plan is reproduced <br />in the .4.ppendix as Figure A-5. <br /> <br />Future Thurston Avenue Volumes <br /> <br />Future traffic volumes on Thurston Avenue wiLl come from several. <br />sources. The primary source is Anoka Enterprise Park. P.M..peak <br />hour "Ultimate Build Out" volumes are shown in Figure A-3. <br />.Although there is no time line with "Ultimate Build Out," these <br />volumes should be used since the potential to generate the volumes <br />exists. <br /> <br />A-ANOKA9501.00 <br /> <br /> I <br /> I <br /> I <br /> I <br /> <br />I' <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />A_noka, Minnesota <br /> <br />Page 4 <br /> <br /> <br />