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CSAH 57 Reconstruction COMMENT: The reconstruction of CSAH 57 should not occur until it is needed. RESPONSE: With the duration of a roadway project's planning, environmental, design, and property acquisition processes taking several-years to complete, County and City staff rely on projected traffic volumes to schedule roadway reconstruction projects and select appropriate roadway designs. Using projected traffic volumes generated as part of the City of Ramsey's AUAR for the Ramsey Town Center project, it was' determined that afour-lane roadway section for Sunfish Lake Boulevard will meet the future needs of the corridor in addition to increasing the roadway's current level of service. COMMENT: Closing the median on Sunfish Lake Boulevard will increase the number of westbound customers using the western (TH 10) entrance to Sunfish Commons. These customers will be trying to slow down from 65 mph while avoiding. merging westbound traffic that is trying to accelerate to 65 mph. This will be more dangerous than trying to cross the southbound lanes. RESPONSE: The southbound CSAH 57-to-westbound TH 10 movement will not be designed as a "MERGE" or "ACCELERATION LANE," but instead will be designed as a "YIELD" movement, where southbound CSAH 57 traffic will be required to yield to TH 10 traffic in order to enter into the westbound TH 10 traffic stream. Positive guidance will be provided with the reconstruction project to aid trafficflow in this area through standard regulatory signing (for example; "YIELD," "RIGHT TURN LANE"), combined with appropriate pavement markings (for example, white edgeline, white lane lines, pavement marking arrows) to effectively separate the southbound CSAH 57-to-westbound TH 10 traffic movements from the westbound TH 10 right turn movements into the Sunfish Commons development access. http://www.tkda.com/anoka/csah57 cmnts.htm Page 3 of 3 -291- 11 /7/2007