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Two corridors rank high using this criterion. They are Minneapolis West/Southwest and St. Paul North/Northeast. The routes which are deficient in capacity with the existing number of lanes are TH 12 (I-394) west of Minneapolis and 1-35E north of downtown St. Paul. The other corridors do not have a serious capacity deficiency and can all be ranked about equal except the Minneapolis Northeast corridor which analyses show has unused capacity on many of the arterials north of the Minneapolis CBD. That corridor should be ranked lowest in the measure for capacity deficiency. SUMMARY OF THIRD CUT EVALUATION The corridors which were selected from the Second Cut Evaluation were evaluated using the Third Cut Criteria as summarized in Table 4. The corresponding numerical ranking in which each corridor is ranked high, medium or low for each criteria is shown on Table 5. The numerical values were derived by assigning 3 points to a high ranking, 2 to a medium ranking and 1 to a low ranking for each of the criteria. The numerical ranking and the final high, medium and low categories of corridors for analysis, as summarized on Table 5 are: .~igh Rank Corridors St. Paul West-Minneapolis East St. Paul North/Northeast Minneapolis West/Southwest Medium Rank. Corridors Minneapolis Northwest Minneapolis South Low Rank Corridors Minneapolis Northeast Minneapolis North Staff availability and target'dates for completion limit the number of alignment options or even the number of~corridors for which reliable user forecasts and detailed information for evaluating feasibility can be developed. The Project Management Team concluded that staff and resources are adequate to analyze four LRT corridors but that the level of detail or the number of options tested may differt by corridor. It is recommended, therefore, that the corridors selected be assigned a priority number indicating which analyses are to be emphasized. A less thorough or detailed analysis of the lowest priority corridor would be performed as more resources are required in the higher priority corridors. l!