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UH, WE'LL BRING THIS, UH, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS MEETING TO ORDER.
UM, AND THIS MEETING WAS POSTED AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW.
NOW WE'LL STAND FOR A MOMENT OF SILENT PRAYER AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
OKAY, WE'LL LOOK AT THE, UH, MINUTES FROM THE LAST MEETING IF YOU HAD A CHANCE TO LOOK AT 'EM.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CHANGES OR ANYTHING THAT NEED TO BE MADE? OKAY.
SEEING NONE WILL ACCEPT THEM AS THEY ARE.
AND THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO DISCUSSION ITEMS. NOW WE'RE GONNA GO IN A DIFFERENT ORDER THAN WHAT'S ON THE SHEET HERE.
SO WE WILL START WITH THE TRANSIT RIDERSHIP REPORT.
HELLO, MY NAME IS CHARLES UFTON.
I'M THE TRANSIT MANAGER FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY.
UH, ATTACHED YOU HAVE THE, THE RIDERSHIP REPORT.
UH, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE REPORT? OH, AND OF COURSE THEY'RE NOT IN ORDER OF THE
[d. Transit Ridership Report]
IT'S ALL THE WAY AT THE BOTTOM.
IT'S ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM.
I SHOULD HAVE ZOOMED DOWN THERE FIRST.
I LOOKED AT 'EM THIS WEEKEND MYSELF.
SO, EH, SEEMS TO BE HOLDING THEIR OWN DOWN A LITTLE BIT YET.
ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE RIDERSHIP REPORT OTHER THAN WE'LL JUST KEEP ON MONITORING AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS AND MAKE ADJUSTMENTS IF NECESSARY.
AND NOW WE'LL MOVE ON TO, UH, HIGHWAY QUARTERLY REPORT.
HELLO, I'M JOSH GLASS FROM THE ASSISTANT HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER.
NICE TO, UH, BE BEFORE YOU TODAY.
ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE HIGHWAY QUARTERLY REPORT? I BELIEVE THIS IS THE FIRST TIME SEEING THESE,
[c. Highway Quarterly Report]
AND SO WE'LL JUST DO A LITTLE, A QUICK SYNOPSIS, UH, IF WE COULD PLEASE.SO YOU'LL SEE THREE, THREE IN YOUR PACKET.
UH, THE FIRST ONE IS THE 2050 TRANSPORTATION NETWORK.
SUSTAINABILITY PLANS FOR ALL PARTICIPATING MUNICIPALITIES.
AND SO WE'VE GOT SEVERAL MUNICIPALITIES THAT ARE DONE, BUT WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON THE CITY OF HARTFORD, IN TOWN OF FARMINGTON.
UH, SO WE'LL HELP GET THOSE DONE WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH OR SO.
UH, SO THEY CAN USE THAT FOR THE NEXT BUDGETING PROCESS.
THAT'LL BE ONTO THE NEXT MUNICIPALITIES, I BELIEVE, TOWN OF ADDISON, AND MAYBE IT WAS JACKSON THAT ASKED US TO BE NEXT ON THE LIST.
SO, UH, WE'VE GOT A COUPLE MORE, UH, COMING THERE.
UH, JERRY, SIMILAR TO OUR TRANSPORTATION NETWORK SUSTAINABILITY PLAN, WE LOOK AT THEIR ROADWAYS AND THEIR PAST HISTORY, THEIR FUTURE AND, AND GIVE 'EM A, A, A ROADMAP TO THE FUTURE, WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, UH, FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES, STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO, UH, WE'LL BRING THOSE BEFORE YOU AS WELL.
YOU'LL SEE THE, THE TOWNS AND CITIES, UH, BEFORE YOU.
UH, THOSE ARE AGAIN, UH, DOCUMENTS VERY SIMILAR TO THE LENGTH THAT YOU SEE HERE TODAY.
UH, WE DON'T EXPECT YOU TO TO REVIEW EVERY SINGLE PAGE OF THOSE DOCUMENTS 'CAUSE THEY ARE BEING LOOKED OVER BY THE, THE TOWNS AND THE CITIES, UH, IN IN GREAT DEPTH.
UH, BUT JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE, UH, PERFORMING THOSE, UH, GOING FORWARD.
OH, REAL QUICK QUESTION BEING THAT I HAVE THE TOWN OF ADDISON MEETING TONIGHT.
AND DO YOU KNOW ABOUT WHEN YOU'D BE STARTING WITH THEM ONCE WE GET THESE TWO FINISHED AND, UH, PROBABLY FALL THIS YEAR? PROBABLY FALL AGAIN.
FINISH USUALLY TAKES SEVERAL MONTHS TO DO.
UH, SO AGAIN, I HAVE IT READY FOR THEIR NEXT BUDGET CYCLE.
YEAH, NO, I'M OKAY WITH BEING REAL VAGUE WITH THEM SOMETIME IN FALL.
IS THAT, IF I PINPOINT IT, WE'LL BE WRONG AND THEN WE'LL BE IN TOUCH WITH THEM THIS FALL.
THE NEXT ONE'S WHAT YOU'RE GONNA SEE TONIGHT THAT YOU, WE, AGAIN, WE'RE DOING, UH, THE COUNTY'S ONES FIRST.
IT'S, AGAIN, I WON'T, UH, GOING TO A, THE JOSH EXPLAINED TO LATER ON, BUT, UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT DOING THE COUNTIES FIRST, BUT THEN ALSO EXTENDING THIS TO MUNICIPALITIES WHO WANT THAT IS DONE FOR THEM AS WELL.
SO AGAIN, THIS IS KIND OF OUR SECOND GO AT IT.
AND THEN, UH, AFTER THIS NOW, UH, WE'LL BE THEN
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PROVIDING THAT SAME ANALYSIS TO ANY MUNICIPALITY THAT WANTS IT.AGAIN, THEY'LL BE HAVE TO REQUEST IT FOR US.
WE'RE NOT JUST GONNA DO THAT IF THEY DON'T WANT IT, BUT, UH, IT'LL BE A LITTLE MORE ABBREVIATED VERSION, UM, THAN WHAT YOU SEE HERE, COUNTYWIDE.
UH, BUT IT'LL BE VERY SIMILAR IN NATURE.
ARE YOU GOOD? ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS ONE DOOR? IS THIS SOMETHING THAT'S ONGOING? WELL, WE, WE DID THE INTERSECTION ONE FIVE YEARS AGO AND NOW WE'RE REDOING IT AGAIN.
AND THEN A CHECK TO SEE HOW THE IMPROVEMENTS WE MADE FIVE YEARS AGO, HOW THEY, IT DID, DID THEY MAKE ANY IMPROVEMENTS? HOPEFULLY THEY DID.
AND JOSH WILL GO THROUGH THOSE WITH YOU.
UH, BUT THEN NOW UPDATING OURS FOR THE, THE NEXT GROUP OF INTERSECTIONS.
BUT WE HAVE NOT DONE THEM FOR THE TOWN, CITY, OR VILLAGE YET.
BUT WE'RE GONNA LIKE, EXTEND THAT TO THEM AS WELL, BECAUSE THERE'S STILL INTERSECTIONS IN OUR COUNTY AND SAFETY IS IMPORTANT TO US.
SO THERE'S NO HISTORY OF WHO TAKES YOU UP ON THIS
WE, WE'VE PROVIDED OVERALL MAPS FOR MUNICIPALITY, UH, USING THE DATA.
JOSH WILL SHOW YOU, WE GIVE THEM THE MAPS AND GO, OKAY, HERE'S WHERE YOUR HEAVY CRASHES ARE HERE, YOUR LIGHT CRASHES ARE, AND THAT'S ALL WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST.
AND IF THEY HAD QUESTIONS, THEY COULD CONTACT US INTERSECTION BY INTERSECTION, BUT THIS WILL BE MORE OF A IN DEPTH ANALYSIS.
MUNICIPALITY TAKES UP ON THAT.
WE HAVE HEAT MAPS ON OUR MAP, RIGHT? YEAH, KIND OF.
BUT, AND THEN THE LAST ONE IS THE, UH, HIGH RISK RURAL ROAD PROGRAM.
SO AGAIN, WE'VE LOOKED AT THE INTERSECTIONS, AND AGAIN, THAT'S ABOUT WITHIN 250 FEET OF THE INTERSECTION.
BUT NOW THE HIGH RISK RURAL ROADS IS ANYWHERE OUTSIDE THOSE INTERSECTION.
WHERE ARE THOSE CRASHES HAPPENING? AND WHAT CAN WE DO TO MITIGATE THOSE? SO WE'RE NOT JUST LOOKING AT THE INTERSECTIONS, BUT TECHNICALLY IT'S THE AREA OUTSIDE OF THE INTERSECTION.
SO I FIGURED, UH, WE LOOKED AT OUR INTERSECTIONS AND WE MADE SOME GREAT IMPROVEMENTS, WHICH JOSH WILL TALK ABOUT.
BUT ALSO LET'S LOOK IN THOSE OTHER AREAS TO SEE WHAT IMPROVEMENTS WE CAN MAKE OUT IN THE MORE RURAL AREAS WHERE IF YOU HAVE A CRASH ON A 55 MILE HOUR HIGHWAY, IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE MORE, UM, DANGEROUS AND, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, SEVERITY.
THEN YOU DO IT ON HIGHWAY IQ, FOR INSTANCE, WHERE IT'S A 25 MILE HOUR SPEED LIMIT.
AND THEN AGAIN, ONCE WE COMPLETE OURS, WE GOTTA GET THAT ONE DONE FIRST.
WE'LL EXTEND THAT ALSO TO THE MUNICIPALITIES TO DO ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NOPE.
THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO, UM, INTERSECTION SAFETY PLAN.
UH, THE BIG, UH, BIG ONE OF THE DAY.
UM, AGAIN, THANKS FOR HAVING ME.
SCOTT ALREADY ALLUDED TO, UM, SOME OF THE FOUNDATION THAT WE HAVE GOING BEHIND THIS PLAN.
UM, SO IF I THINK, I BELIEVE EVERYBODY'S GOT A HARD COPY IN FRONT OF YOU, SO I JUST WANNA WALK THROUGH
[a. Intersection Safety Plan]
A LITTLE BIT OF THE HISTORY ON THIS.UM, KIND OF MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY'S GOT A PRETTY GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE IT CAME FROM AND WHY, UM, HOW THE PLAN CAME TOGETHER.
AND THEN ALSO I'M GONNA GET INTO SOME OF THE ACTION WE'VE TAKEN.
THIS IS THE SECOND EDITION OF THIS PLAN THAT, THAT WE'RE DEVELOPING.
SO WE WANNA LOOK AT SOME OF THE THINGS WE'VE DONE BECAUSE OF THE FIRST EDITION.
UM, AND HOPEFULLY YOU GUYS CAN SEE IMPROVEMENTS MADE THAT WAY.
AND THEN WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT SOME OF THE INTERSECTIONS THAT ARE NOW ON OUR RADAR, UM, THAT WE'RE GONNA BE TRYING TO TACKLE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE YEARS.
UM, I'M ALSO GONNA TALK ABOUT THE THREE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF HOW WE BREAK DOWN THE INFORMATION, THE CRASH DATA, UM, AND GO FROM THERE.
SO, LITTLE BIT OF THE INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY, UM, LIKE RIGHT AFTER THE COVER PAGE, YOU CAN SEE AN EXPLANATION.
IT CAME THROUGH THE STRATEGIC PRIORITY PROCESS, UH, BACK IN 2017 AND 2019 FROM THE COUNTY BOARD.
UM, THAT'S WHERE IT REALLY ORIGINATED.
I DUNNO IF YOU CAN BRING IT UP ON THE SCREEN, I'LL WORK ON THAT.
UM, SO WE'RE DIRECTED BY THE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
UM, THAT'S ALSO EXPLAINED ON PAGE TWO.
IF YOU WANNA LEARN A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THAT HISTORY.
THE FIRST BIG STEP OF PUTTING THIS TOGETHER WAS TO BUILD THE INVENTORY OF COUNTY CONTROLLED INTERSECTIONS.
UM, SO WE WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH OUR GIS DEPARTMENT, SPECIFICALLY MIKE VAN SANDEN, WHO DOES AN OUTSTANDING JOB FOR, WITH US VERY CLOSE PARTNERSHIP, UM, ON A LOT OF THE WORK THAT WE DO AND THE MAPPING THAT GOES ALONG WITH IT.
UM, FIRST THING WE DID WAS GATHER THAT INFORMATION AND MIKE CAN RUN THESE MAGICAL ANALYSES THAT PUT TOGETHER ALL THESE PRETTY PICTURES, PRETTY MAPS, YOU CAN SEE IT ALL.
UM, THEN IT WAS A MATTER OF DETERMINING JURISDICTIONAL AUTHORITY.
SO WE NEED TO DETERMINE WHICH INTERSECTIONS WE'RE ACTUALLY COUNTY CONTROLLED AND WE HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO ACTUALLY MAKE CHANGES ON.
UM, SO THEY GET INTO THAT ON PAGE FOUR.
IN SECTION TWO, YOU KINDA SEE.
SO IT, WHAT I MEAN BY A COUNTY CONTROLLED INTERSECTION, IF WE HAVE A STATE HIGHWAY AND A COUNTY HIGHWAY THAT INTERSECT, IT ALWAYS GOES TO THE HIGHER LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT FOR ITS CONTROL.
SO IF WE HAVE A COUNTY AND A TOWN ROAD, THAT'D BE A COUNTY CONTROLLED INTERSECTION.
UM, WE'VE GOT SOME VISUALS ON THERE ON PAGE FIVE.
UM, SO THEN IT'S A MATTER OF FILTERING OUT ALL OF THE COUNTY, ALL
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OF THE INTERSECTIONS IN THE COUNTY.AND THEN WE FIGURE OUT WHICH ONES ARE COUNTY CONTROLLED.
MIKE CAN DO THAT BEHIND THE SCENES, PUT TOGETHER THE MAPS, LIKE ON MAP ONE, YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF ROADS WERE, UM, A LOT OF MILEAGE WAS GAINED AND LOST THROUGH JURISDICTIONAL TRANSFERS SINCE OUR FIRST PLAN.
SO THAT'S ONE THING THAT I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT AS FAR AS DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, LEVELS OF CONTROL CHANGING THROUGH THE JURISDICTIONAL TRANSFERS.
SO WE CAN GET ON NOW, I CAN BRING IT UP ON THE SCREEN FOR YOU TOO.
YOU CAN SEE ON THIS MAP HERE IF YOU WANT ME TO ZOOM IN ON ANYTHING I CAN.
UM, BUT THE DIFFERENT COLORS REPRESENT MILEAGE THAT WAS GAINED OR LOST.
AND EVERY DOT ON THE MAP IS AN INTERSECTION.
UH, THEN WE, UM, WE DID THE FINAL INVENTORY OF, OF COUNTY CONTROLLED INTERSECTION.
SO IF YOU GO TO MAP TWO ON PAGE EIGHT, THAT'S REALLY SHOWING EVERYTHING THAT WAS ON OUR RADAR WITHIN OUR CONTROL TO MAKE CHANGE.
SO EVERY GREEN DOT ON THERE IS AN COUNTY CONTROLLED INTERSECTION.
YOU'LL SEE SOME RED DOTS ON THERE TOO.
SO THOSE ARE COUNTY HIGHWAYS THAT ARE BORDER HIGHWAYS.
UM, SO LIKE ONES THAT ARE ALONG HIGHWAY Q, FOR EXAMPLE, ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER, YOU KNOW, THOSE COME UP IN OUR INVENTORY BECAUSE THEY ARE A COUNTY HIGHWAY.
BUT THOSE SEGMENTS OF Q ARE NOT UNDER OUR COUNTY'S JURISDICTION.
SO THEY HAVE THE CONTROL, UM, DOES LEAD TO POTENTIAL CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM IF IMPROVEMENTS SHOULD BE MADE, EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT OUR INTERSECTION PER SE.
NEXT THING WAS JUST TO RUN THE ANALYSIS.
WE USE IT, WE BREAK IT DOWN THREE DIFFERENT WAYS.
SO WE LOOK AT THE OVERALL NUMBER OF CRASHES THAT HAPPEN AT AN INTERSECTION.
UH, WE ALSO BREAK IT DOWN BY THE CRASH RATE, SO ADJUSTING THAT PER AVERAGE, DAILY AMOUNT OF VEHICLES GOING THROUGH THE INTERSECTION.
AND THEN WE ALSO LOOK AT CRASH SEVERITY.
SO EVEN IF IT HAS A VERY LOW NUMBER OF CRASHES, BUT THEY ARE SEVERE, IF THERE'S FATALITIES AND MAJOR INJURIES, THAT'S ALSO AN IMPORTANT WAY OF EVALUATING THE INFORMATION.
SO THAT'S HOW WE BREAK IT DOWN.
THE FIRST PLAN, THE FIRST EDITION THAT WE DID LOOKED AT DATA FROM 2013 TO 2017.
THAT FIVE YEAR WINDOW, THE SECOND EDITION THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT NOW IS THE NEXT FIVE YEAR WINDOW.
AND THEN WE ALSO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S JUST SO WE CAN LOOK AT TRENDS IN THOSE FIVE YEAR BLOCKS JUST TO KEEP THAT CONSISTENT.
AND WE ALSO TOOK INTO CONSIDERATION THINGS THAT HAPPENED SINCE 2022.
SO WE GOT ANOTHER YEAR AND A HALF AFTER THAT.
THAT ALSO FACTORED IN TO OUR DECISION MAKING.
UM, THE INFORMATION THAT WE, THAT WE GOT, THAT WE UTILIZED IN THE DATA SOURCE COMES FROM THE WISCONSIN TRANSPORTATION PORTAL THAT'S MAINTAINED BY UW MADISON AND THE TRAFFIC OPERATIONS AND SAFETY LAB.
SO EVERY TIME THERE'S A CRASH OUT THERE THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONDS TO AND THEY FILL OUT THEIR CRASH REPORT, THAT'S ALL LOGGED AND TRACKED INTO THIS PORTAL.
SO THERE'S PUBLIC INFORMATION OUT THERE, AND I CAN BRING THAT UP TO YOU SO YOU CAN GET A VISUAL.
YOU CAN JUST GOOGLE COMMUNITY MAPS.
IT'S THE FIRST LINK THAT POPS UP FOR ME.
AND JUST GO ENTER COMMUNITY MAPS AND THIS IS WHERE ALL THAT INFORMATION GOES.
THEN YOU CAN GO OVER ON THE LEFT PANEL HERE.
YOU CAN SORT OUT DIFFERENT TIMEFRAMES.
YOU CAN SELECT DIFFERENT FORMS OF CRASHES.
UM, WE EXCLUDE DEER CRASHES FOR THIS.
THAT'S JUST KIND OF A NATURAL THING THAT WE DON'T FACTOR IN.
IT'S NOT REALLY A HUMAN CONTROL TYPE THING.
SO WE TAKE THOSE, WE EXCLUDE THOSE IN OUR ANALYSIS.
UM, I HAVE SOME ADVANCED, UH, APPROVALS FOR, FOR GETTING INFORMATION OFF THE WEBSITE.
THIS IS NOT PUBLIC FACING PER SE, BUT YOU CAN, I GOT SOME SETTINGS PRESET.
UM, YOU CAN LOOK AT THE TIMELINE AND I'M JUST GONNA SHOW YOU ONE OF THE CRASH RECORDS HERE 'CAUSE YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY SEE THE REPORTS ON THE, ON THE PUBLIC SIDE.
BUT IF YOU, IF YOU ZOOM INTO ONE OF THE DOTS UP TO NOW, THIS IS WHAT EVERYBODY IN THE PUBLIC COULD SEE.
YOU CAN SEE EXACTLY WHERE THE CRASHES HAPPENED BASED ON THE YEARS THAT YOU SELECTED.
SO EVERYBODY HAS ACCESS TO THIS, BUT EACH INDIVIDUAL CRASH IS ONE LITTLE DOT.
THE MAPS WE USUALLY PROVIDE TO THE MUNICIPALITIES HAVE WHAT'S CALLED A HEAT MAP.
THE MORE CRASHES AND INTERSECTION, THE MORE LARGER THE CIRCLE IS.
LEASE CRASHES, SMALLER THE CIRCLE IS, BUT THIS SHOWS EVERY INDIVIDUAL CRASH IN THE COUNTY FOR THE TIME PERIOD THAT JOSH SELECTED.
CAN YOU TOUCH BASE ON WHY YOU HAVE SOME IN BLUE, SOME IN YELLOW, SOME IN GREEN.
WE GOT, SO IF YOU SEE RED DOTS, THOSE INDICATE THAT THERE WAS A FATALITY.
UM, EITHER AT LEAST ONE FATALITY INVOLVED WITH THE INTERSECTION CRASH.
UM, EVEN IF, SO, IF THERE EVEN WAS MORE THAN ONE, IT'D STILL BE A RED DOT OR IF THERE WAS A FATALITY RESULTING.
SOMETIMES IT'S NOT AN IMMEDIATE THING.
UM, AND THEN IT'S ALSO COLOR CODED.
YOU CAN SEE UP HERE ON THE TOP LEFT PART,
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UM, DEPENDING ON THE LEVEL OF INJURIES INVOLVED OR IF THERE'S NO INJURIES AND JUST PROPERTY DAMAGE, THAT WOULD BE A GREEN.SO RED IS BAD, THAT'S FATALITY.
UM, THEN YOU GOT ORANGE, YELLOW, BLUE.
THOSE ARE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF INJURY.
AND THEN GREEN IS PROPERTY DAMAGE ONLY.
SO IF THEY HIT A SIGN OR GUARDRAIL OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THINK OF IT THIS WAY.
IF IT'S AN A INJURY, THAT MEANS THEY PROBABLY GOT TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL.
IF IT'S A B INJURY, THEY MAY HAVE GOT TRANSPORTED.
THEY, THE OFFICERS PHYSICALLY SAW SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEM, MAYBE IF THEY HAD BLOOD ON THEIR FACE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO THAT'S THE THING ABOUT BE, BUT THEY MAYBE THEY GOT TRANSPORTED AND BE TREATED ON SITE AND RELEASED.
THE C INJURY IS THE PERSON GOES, OH, MY NECK'S SORE AND THAT'S IT.
SO AGAIN, BLUE IS PROPERTY DAMAGE ONLY.
YOU HAVE A LITTLE FENDER BENDER.
NOBODY COMPLAINS ABOUT INTER AN INJURY.
UH, THE YELLOW AGAIN IS, YEAH, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE JUST COMPLAINING ABOUT A, A SORE NECK OR GONNA BE A A B WOULD B SOMETHING BECAUSE THEY COULD SEE PHYSICALLY, BUT MAYBE DIDN'T GET TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL.
A GENERALLY SPEAKING, AS THEY GOT TRANSPORTED TO A HOSPITAL.
AND I'LL SHOW YOU ONE EXAMPLE OF A CRASH REPORT.
SO THIS, THIS LINK HERE WOULD NOT BE ON THE, THE PUBLIC FACING SIDE, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE LOOK AT, WE REVIEW.
SO THIS, I'M NOT GONNA GO PAST THE FIRST PAGE OF THIS 'CAUSE THERE'S, THERE'S NAMES AND THERE'S PRIVATE INFORMATION ON THERE.
UM, THIS IS WHAT LAW ENFORCEMENT FILLS OUT.
AND THEN THESE ARE ALL GEOTAG, THEY'RE, UH, LOCATED.
SO THEY CAN PUT THAT ON THAT MAPPING APPLICATION.
SO YOU CAN LOOK AT DIFFERENT CONDITIONS, WEATHER CONDITIONS, TIME OF DAY, AND ALL OF THAT.
UM, SO THEY PUT TOGETHER THIS DIAGRAM SO YOU CAN VISUALIZE WHAT HAPPENED.
AND THEN AS THEY PUT, THEY PUT SOME KIND OF A NARRATIVE WITH IT TO EXPLAIN THAT IN THEIR OWN WORDS, QUITE DETAIL.
AND THE LEVEL OF DETAIL AND ACCURACY THAT THE, THE LAW ENFORCEMENT PUTS INTO THIS IS DIRECTLY RELATIVE TO HOW WELL OUR PLANS COME OUT.
DOES THE LAW ENFORCEMENT UPDATE THIS? THEY DO.
AND EVEN IF, EVEN IF SOMETHING HAPPENS, SAY, SAY THERE'S AN INJURY AND SOMEBODY WOULD PASS AWAY, YOU KNOW, DAYS OR WEEKS LATER, THEY CAN GO IN AND, AND AMEND THESE AS WELL AND TRY TO KEEP THAT INFORMATION IS TRUE AS POSSIBLE.
AND THE, AND THE MORE EFFORT AND ACCURACY THEY PUT INTO IT DIRECTLY AFFECTS THE QUALITY OF PLANS LIKE THIS.
SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT THEY DO THAT CORRECTLY AND THOROUGHLY.
UM, LIKE, LIKE SCOTT SAID, UH, THE INTERSECTION PLAN, UM, LOOKS AT INTERSECTIONS, YOU KNOW, THROUGH GIS.
THEY RUN THAT 250 FOOT RADIUS OUT OF THE CENTER CROSS OF THE INTERSECTION.
UM, SO ANYTHING WITHIN THOSE BOUNDARIES WITH THOSE DOTS THAT, THAT WERE KIND OF PEGGED PHYSICALLY, UM, TO THAT INTERSECTION, LIKE THIS ONE HERE, LIKE THIS ONE WOULD FALL INTO OUR PLAN.
JUST BEING WITHIN 250 FEET OF THAT, THAT INTERSECTION, IF THERE'S ONE OUT HERE THAT WOULD FALL INTO OUR ROADWAY ANALYSIS, THAT THAT WILL BE COMING TO YOU GUYS SOON.
UM, BACK TO HOW THE PLAN WAS PUT TOGETHER, WE LOOK AT THE OVERALL NUMBER OF CRASHES, UM, CRASH RATE, CRASH SEVERITY, AND THEN WE PRODUCE A TOP FIVE LIST FOR EACH ONE OF THOSE THREE CATEGORIES.
AND THOSE ARE THE HIGHEST ONES ON OUR RADAR FOR ONES THAT NEED IMPROVEMENT.
UM, DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA DO THINGS TO OTHER INTERSECTIONS AS WE SEE ISSUES, BUT THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE, ARE PROFILED IN THIS PLAN AS POTENTIALLY NEEDING THE MOST ATTENTION AND THE MOST URGENT ATTENTION.
UM, JUST KIND OF FLIPPING THROUGH THE PLAN, YOU CAN SEE THAT LIST ON TABLE THREE, PAGE 12.
LET'S SEE IF I CAN BRING THAT BACK UP.
YOU CAN SEE THE LIST OF OUR TOP FIVE OF THE HIGHEST OR INTERSECTIONS WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF TOTAL CRASHES.
UM, AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THE PROFILE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
UM, IT'S IN THE BACK OF THE PLAN.
I'LL GET TO THAT A LITTLE BIT LATER.
UM, JUST KIND OF CONTINUING ON THROUGH THAT, UH, YOU CAN SEE THE CRASH RATE FORMULA.
YOU CAN SEE MAPS THAT, SO YOU CAN VISUALIZE WHERE THESE INTERSECTIONS ARE THAT ARE HIGHEST ON OUR RADAR.
UM, I'M NOT GONNA GO INTO ALL THE DETAIL OF THE, THE FORMULAS AND ALL THAT, BUT SEVERITY, UM, THERE IS A MORE COMPLEX FORMULA THERE.
SO IF THERE'S FATALITIES OR DEPENDING ON THE LEVEL OF INJURY, IT'S GIVEN MORE WEIGHT WITHIN THE FORMULA, UM, THAT'S GONNA PRODUCE A HIGHER SEVERITY INDEX AND BRING THAT UP TO THE TOP OF THE LIST.
YOU CAN SEE THOSE ON THE MAPS AS WELL.
SO NOW I'M GONNA JUMP A LITTLE BIT.
UM, I'M GONNA JUMP TOWARDS THE BACK OF THE PLAN AND WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT WHAT WE DID SINCE OUR FIRST ADDITION TO THIS PLAN AND KINDA SHOW YOU SOME OF THE RESULTS THAT CAME FROM IT.
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SO I'M GONNA JUMP, IT'S PAGE 1 0 4 BACK IN APPENDIX F.UH, THIS SECTION HIGHLIGHTS THINGS WE DID.
SO THE, JUST A QUICK SUMMARY, JUST A VERY QUICK SYNOPSIS OF WHAT WE, WHAT CAME UP IN OUR LAST PLAN AND WHAT WE DID.
UH, FIRST EXAMPLE I'D LIKE TO SHOW YOU IS, UH, HIGHWAY Q AND HILLSIDE DOWN ON, UH, THE COUNTY LINE VILLAGE OF RIDGEFIELD AREA.
THERE WERE SOME MAJOR CRASH ISSUES HERE, SOME SEVERE, SOME SEVERE INJURY INVOLVED WITH THAT.
UM, WE WOUND UP PURSUING HISS A FUNDS.
THAT'S THE HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PLAN.
THAT'S A 90 10 SPLIT, UH, 90 BY THE STATE FED LEVEL AND 10 LOCALLY.
AND THAT PRODUCED A NEW ROUNDABOUT, AND THAT WAS IN 2023.
AND THERE HASN'T REALLY BEEN A SINGLE CRASH SINCE 2023, SO KNOCK ON WOOD, UM, THAT WAS A, THAT'S A, THAT'S ON THE HIGHER END OF IMPROVEMENTS, UH, WHEN YOU'RE GONNA FULL BLOWN RECONSTRUCTION AND, AND ALTERING AN INTERSECTION, CONVERTING IT TO A ROUNDABOUT LIKE THIS.
UM, THERE'S A LOT OTHER THINGS THAT I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT HERE.
AND A FEW OTHER INTERSECTIONS.
NOT QUITE AS COMPLEX AS THAT ONE.
UM, HIGHWAY K, IT USED TO BE HIGHWAY K, UH, JURISDICTIONALLY TRANSFERRED SINCE NOW PART OF TURTLE ROAD, NORTH OF HARTFORD.
UM, THIS USED TO BE OUR, OUR HIGHWAY.
UM, THERE WAS SOME CRASH ISSUES THERE AS WELL THAT WAS CONVERTED, REALIGNED, CONVERTED TO A T INTERSECTION.
UM, ONE PROPERTY DAMAGE ONLY CRASHED SINCE THIS HAS BEEN REALIGNED AND, AND RECONFIGURED AND THEN SINCE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE TOWN LEVEL.
UM, HIGHWAY C, WE DID A RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN 2017.
UM, SO THERE'S ROUNDABOUTS INVOLVED THERE, JUST NORTH OF HIGHWAY 60.
TOWN OF POLK, VILLAGE OF SLINGER AREA.
UM, I REALLY WANNA HIGHLIGHT THIS INTERSECTION CHANGE AT, UM, STONY LANE.
YOU CAN SEE HERE, YOU CAN KIND OF SEE HOW THINGS WERE JUST USING AERIAL PHOTOS FROM GIS AND GOOGLE EARTH.
PHOTO ON THE LEFT IS BEFORE WE TREATED THIS INTERSECTION.
PHOTO ON THE RIGHT SHOWS YOU HOW THINGS WERE COMPLETELY REALIGNED.
UM, TRYING TO MAXIMIZE THE, THE MOST AMOUNT OF THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF SAFETY FOR POSITIONING WITH THE TURNING MOVEMENTS STOP BARS, FRESHLY PAID SURFACE TO THE RECONSTRUCTION PROGRAM.
UM, AND THERE'S BEEN NO CRASHES THERE SINCE 2017.
YES, KNOCK ON WOOD, UM, CRASH SEVERITY HAS BEEN REDUCED TO ZERO.
SO THAT, I MEAN, THERE'S A, YOU CAN SEE THERE, IT'S A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE PHYSICALLY OF BEFORE AND AFTER AND HOW THAT CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
UM, LOOKING AT HIGHWAY D I'M JUST GONNA CRUISE THROUGH A FEW OF THESE HERE.
UM, THERE'S SOME CRASHES UP AT AT D AND RUSTIC, UH, TURN LANE WENT IN THERE, CRASHES HAVE IMP THERE'S BEEN A CRASH, BUT THERE IT'S DRASTICALLY IMPROVED.
UM, H AND SANDY RIDGE ROAD, SOME OF THESE TREATMENTS MIGHT JUST BE UPGRADING ADVANCED WARNING SIGNAGE OR AN OVERSIZED STOP SIGN OR PUTTING MORE REFLECTIVITY OUT THERE SO PEOPLE SEE THE SIGNAGE BETTER CLEARING VEGETATION, UM, SO A SANDY RIDGE AND, AND H THERE WE, UM, UPGRADED THE WARNING SIGNAGE THERE FOR INTERSECTION AHEAD SEEMS TO IMPROVE SAFETY JUST FROM THAT.
KAY AND SHAMROCK, UM, THERE WAS A SEVERE CRASH THERE, BUT THAT WAS IN HUMAN ERROR THERE AND IT'S WIDE OPEN, SO SOMETIMES THERE'S, THERE'S REALLY NO ACTION THAT WE DEEM NEEDED.
UM, THERE HAS BEEN NO CRASHES SINCE THEN.
M AND HIGHLAND, UH, THIS WAS PART OF OUR RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN 2023.
UM, AS M WAS RECONSTRUCTED, THERE WERE ISSUES HERE WITH TRAFFIC APPROACHING ON HIGHLAND.
UM, JUST THE, THE ANGLE THAT THE VEHICLE SAT AT AND WHEN THEY'RE LOOKING NORTH AND SOUTH ON M THE SIGHT LINES WERE, WERE NOT GOOD.
UH, THERE'S HILLS AND VALLEYS THERE, AND THROUGH THAT RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT, WE, THE HIGHWAY M WAS, UH, LEVELED OFF.
VALLEYS FILLED, HILLS CUT DOWN, SIGHT LINES WERE OPENED UP DRASTICALLY.
AND WE ALSO ELEVATED THAT IN INTERSECTION WHERE WHEN CARS ARE STOPPED THERE, THAT WAS ELEVATED TO A DEGREE WHERE IT'S, THEY HAVE A BETTER POSITION FOR VISION INSTEAD OF DRIVING UP A RAMP, THEY'RE STARTING IN A MORE LEVEL POSITION.
UM, ANY OTHER ONES YOU WANNA HIGHLIGHT HERE, SCOTT? OTHER, I WANNA KEEP ON CRUISING THROUGH THERE.
THERE'S MORE IN THERE, BUT AGAIN, WE, FOR THE INSTANCE OF TIME, CERTAINLY TAKE, TAKE A LOOK THROUGH THOSE.
BUT I JUST WANT TO, UH, THANK JOSH FOR HIS LEVEL EFFORT ON THAT AS WELL AS OUR, OUR SIGN GUYS, OUR HIGHWAY CREW, AND, AND BRAD ABRAHAM, OUR, OUR PROJECT ENGINEER FOR REALLY TAKING THE LEAD ON ALL THESE PROJECTS AND LOOKING AT THEM, UM, ONE BY ONE INDIVIDUALLY AND, AND MAKING IMPROVEMENTS THAT OBVIOUSLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
SO THAT'S JUST A, A QUE A QUICK, UM, SNAPSHOT OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID RESULTING FROM THE FIRST EDITION OF THE PLAN.
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PROVED TO BE A VERY, UH, VALUABLE TOOL FOR US TO HAVE, UM, TO REFERENCE AND IDENTIFY THE HIGHEST PRIORITIES.NOW LOOKING AT THIS ADDITION OF THE PLAN, I'M GONNA JUMP INTO THE PROFILES THAT WE PUT TOGETHER FOR THE CURRENT ISSUES THAT REMAIN OUT THERE.
SO, LIKE I SAID, OUTTA THOSE, THE, THE FOR CRASH FOR A NUMBER OF CRASHES, CRASH RATE AND CRASH SEVERITY, WE DEVELOPED A TOP FIVE LIST FOR EACH ONE OF THOSE.
AND THEN WE PROFILED THOSE INTERSECTIONS AS YOU CAN SEE NOW ON THE SCREEN.
KINDA LOOKING BACK AT THE DATA THAT WE HAD, UH, FROM 2013 TO 17, AND THEN WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE GOING INTO 18 TO 2022.
SO THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF CRASHES, AS YOU MAY EXPECT, ARE DOWN ON HIGHWAY Q, DOWN IN THE MORE URBANIZED AREA.
THAT'S THE HIGHEST AREA OF TRAFFIC VOLUME ON ALL OF OUR COUNTY SYSTEM.
UM, WHAT PAGE YOU'RE ON, THIS IS ON PAGE 26 IF YOU'RE FALLING ON THE HARD COPY.
UM, SO NOT SEVERE CRASHES, HOPEFULLY IT STAYS THAT WAY, BUT A LOT OF FENDER BENDERS.
UM, A LOT OF INATTENTIVE DRIVING, FALLING TOO CLOSELY.
UM, JUST PEOPLE REAR END ACCIDENTS, IT'S A LOT OF THEM, BUT WE'VE LOOKED AT DIFFERENT IMPROVEMENTS.
SO WE LOOK AT HIGHWAY Q AND RIVER CREST, THAT IS, THAT WAS NUMBER ONE BY FAR ON THE FIRST PLAN.
AND IT IS AGAIN NOW, UM, YOU CAN GET INTO SOME OF THE REMEDIES THAT WE'VE LOOKED AT AND SOME OF THE PICTURES YOU CAN SEE ON THE AERIAL PHOTOS.
UM, YOU CAN SEE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO PHOTOS.
LEMME SEE IF I CAN GET A BETTER, YOU SEE SOME OF THE PAINTING THAT WE DID.
SO 2017 ON THE SOUTH LEG, PARTICULARLY ON THIS INTERSECTION, WE TRIED TO REALIGN TRAFFIC, ESPECIALLY MAKING THAT EASTBOUND TURN FROM THE SOUTH BY PAINTING DIFFERENT DELINEATIONS, UH, DOING DIFFERENT PAINT MARKINGS AND CLEAR PAINT MARKINGS.
WE ALSO SHIFTED THE POSITION OF THAT STOP SIGN.
THERE'S A LOT OF REAR END, THERE'S HESITATION AS, AS CARS WERE TURNING OFF THAT MOVEMENT HERE.
UM, SO WE'RE TRYING TO POSITION THEM A LITTLE BIT BETTER TO REDUCE SOME OF THOSE ACCIDENTS.
SO THERE'S THINGS LIKE THAT THAT WE, THAT WE'RE FINDING.
YOU CAN SEE SOME PICTURES OF, OF THE STOP SIGN.
WE PUT REFLEXIVITY ON THAT STOP SIGN.
WE MOVED IT BACK PROBABLY 20 FEET CLOSER TO THE INTERSECTION OR SO.
UM, CRASH NUMBERS HAVEN'T REALLY GONE DOWN A LOT THERE, BUT AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC CONTINUES TO CLIMB.
THERE'S ALWAYS GONNA BE ACCIDENTS THERE.
WE'RE JUST TRYING TO KEEP, KEEP OUR FINGER ON THE PULSE PER SE AND TRY TO STAY AHEAD OF IT ANY MORE SEVERE ISSUES.
SO WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT Q, CAN YOU ALSO LET THESE PEOPLE KNOW, ESPECIALLY THE NEW ONES HERE, THE CONUNDRUM YOU HAVE WHEN IT COMES TO LINING UP THE STOP AND GO LIGHTS BECAUSE OF THE DIFFERENT MUNICIPALITIES THAT CONTROL 'EM AND IF THAT AFFECTS THE CRASH AS WELL? IT DEFINITELY, IT DEFINITELY IS A FACTOR THAT WHOLE CORRIDOR, UM, SCOTT, YOU CAN SPEAK ON IT MUCH BETTER THAN I CAN.
HE WAS, HE WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT, THAT DISCUSSION.
THAT WAS A LOT OF COORDINATION WITH THE LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES AND THE DOT TO GET THAT WHOLE CORRIDOR IN SYNC TO MAXIMIZE TRAFFIC FLOW.
YEAH, JUST REAL QUICKLY, THE, THE SIGNALS ARE, ARE COORDINATED BETWEEN THE STATE OF WISCONSIN OWNS THE SIGNALS BY THE ON AND OFF RAMP, THEN GOING DOWN THE ROADWAY.
THEY'RE EITHER OWNED BY THE VILLAGE OF GERMANTOWN OR THE VILLAGE OF NOMINEE FALLS.
THE COUNTY DOESN'T OWN ANY OF THOSE.
AND SO THE DOT, WITH THE HELP OF THOSE MUNICIPALITIES TOOK ON A SEVEN YEAR PROJECT TO ACTUALLY COORDINATE ALL THOSE TRAFFIC SIGNALS TOGETHER.
AND THE DOT HELPS MONITOR THOSE TRAFFIC SIGNALS.
SOME OF THEM WERE GOING BACK TO LIKE, YOU GO TO THE SYSTEM, RIGHT? AND THEY'RE LIKE, ONE WOULD NOT COMMUNICATE WITH THE OTHER.
NOW THEY'RE ALL COMMUNICATING AND THEY GET ADJUSTED BY THE DOT.
SO YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO ONE SIGNAL GOING, I CAN'T DRIVE FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER WITHOUT STOPPING 13 TIMES.
THEY WEREN'T COMMUNICATING AT ALL.
SO WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS MAKE SURE WITH THIS CORRIDOR THAT NOW YOU STOP AND GO STOP AND GO STOP AND GO.
SO TIMES IN THE MORNING, TIMES A DAY THAT THEY ACTUALLY GO TO A FLASHING SIGNALS.
IF YOU'VE BEEN EARLY IN THE CITY, WEST BEND, THAT'S BEFORE 6:00 AM AND I THINK IT'S 11:00 PM AT NIGHT, THEY DO A LOT OF FLASHING SIGNALS.
SEE, SAME THING DOWN HERE NOW WE'RE DOING.
AND SO IT JUST TOOK A LOT OF COORDINATION TO GO THROUGH AND DO THAT, THAT MODIFICATIONS DOWN THERE.
BUT WE'RE REALLY HAPPY THAT, UH, THEY'RE ALL ABLE TO WORK TOGETHER.
UH, WE PROVIDED A LITTLE INPUT HERE AND THERE WHEN WE COULD, UH, BUT WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY APPRECIATIVE OF THE DOT TAKING THE LEAD ON THAT.
IT WAS A, A LONG AND LENGTHY PROJECT AND TO CONNECT THOSE SIGNALS WITH DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES AND EACH OF THEM WAS, UH, QUITE AN UNDERTAKING.
UH, BUT I DO WANNA POINT OUT THAT MOVEMENT THAT JOSH WAS MENTIONING, UH, SINCE WE DID THAT REALIGNMENT, THERE'S BEEN A 62% DECREASE IN THAT, THOSE CRASHES.
SO IN THE SECOND PAGE OF THAT REPORT THAT JOSH HAS UP, YOU'LL SEE WHEN THOSE CRASHES ACTUALLY OCCURRED TOO.
THERE'S NOT JUST WHEN THEY ARE, BUT EVERY NUMBER HAS A DATE ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THAT ACTUALLY WAS REDUCED BY 62% AFTER WE DID THAT BECAUSE A LOT OF
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THOSE CRASHES BEFORE WE ACTUALLY MADE THOSE IMPROVEMENTS.SO, UH, THAT LOCATION IS BETTER.
BUT THEN OF COURSE YOU LOOK AT OTHER THIS, OH, NOW WE GOT A PROMINENT NORTH LAKE FOR SOME REASON.
SO, UH, IT, IT DOES MOVE AROUND A LITTLE BIT ON THOSE.
BUT AGAIN, AS JOSH POINTED OUT, UH, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE LIST OF CRASHES ON THAT SECOND PAGE OF THAT, YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF PDL PROPERTY DAMAGE ONLY.
AGAIN, NOT A LOT OF A CRASHES, NO FATALITIES.
SO AGAIN, IT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THEIR CELL PHONES NOWADAYS NOT PAYING ATTENTION AND, UM, IT HAPPENS.
UM, AND SO WE'RE CERTAINLY GONNA LOOK FOR KEEP IMPROVEMENTS, BUT, UH, SOMETIMES YOU JUST KIND OF HAVE TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT INTERSECTION LIKE JOSH WILL DO NOW.
SO, UM, AS PART OF THE INTERSECTION PROFILES, WE SEND THE INFORMATION TO SEWER PACK, SO SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION.
AND THEY PUT TOGETHER THESE NICE DIAGRAMS, WHICH ARE, I THINK, VERY HELPFUL.
UM, SO THEY, THEY CAPTURE ALL THAT DATA AND THEN THEY, THEY PUT IT INTO THIS.
SO WE TO VISUALIZE THE ISSUES.
SO YOU CAN SEE DIFFERENT SYMBOLOGY INDICATES REAR END CRASHES OR ANGLE CRASHES, AND THEN THERE'S A NUMBER TO EVERY ONE OF THESE ARROWS.
THEY REPRESENT A, A CRASH, AND THEN THE NUMBER CORRELATES TO THE TABLE AFTER IT.
SO YOU CAN SEE IN THE TABLES THAT FOLLOW, YOU CAN SEE TRENDS IF THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF FOLLOWING TOO CLOSE.
AND, UH, INATTENTIVE DRIVING IS A VERY, VERY COMMON THEMES, AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE AS YOU TRAVEL AROUND IN SOCIETY THESE DAYS.
AS SCOTT WAS SAYING, A LOT OF DISTRACTIONS, A LOT OF IMPATIENCE.
UM, SO YOU'LL SEE THAT THROUGHOUT NUMEROUS INTERSECTIONS THAT ARE PROFILED IN THE PLAN.
UM, SO I'M GONNA JUMP OVER, I'M GONNA GO TO THE NEXT ONE, HIGHWAY Q AGAIN, UH, FOR HIGH CRASH NUMBER AND FALLS PARKWAY AND, AND EMER ROAD INTERSECTION.
SO A LITTLE FURTHER TO THE EAST IN THAT VILLAGE OF GERMANTOWN, AREA OF HIGHWAY Q.
SO I'M GONNA JUMP TO THAT PROFILE ON PAGE 35.
YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBERS THERE.
UM, NUMBER OF CRASHES AGAIN, HASN'T CHANGED A LOT, BUT THE A DT AGAIN CONTINUES TO CLIMB AND IT ACTUALLY BROUGHT THE CRASH RATE DOWN SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID THERE IN THAT CORRIDOR.
YOU CAN LOOK AT THE, THE AERIAL PHOTOS.
UM, WE DID A LOT OF, UH, UPGRADES TO THE PAINTING AND THE DELINEATIONS IN THAT AREA.
UM, SO NOT EVERYTHING IS NECESSARILY TABBED TO, YOU KNOW, JUST ONE TURNING MOVEMENT.
IT'S SOMETIMES THE TRAFFIC FLOW IN AND AROUND WITHIN THAT 250 FOOT RADIUS OF THE INTERSECTIONS.
UM, WE ALSO DID SOME SIGN ADJUST ADJUSTMENTS THROUGH, UH, COORDINATION WITH THE DOT.
UM, ADDING, YOU KNOW, CLARIFICATION, YOU GOT A RIGHT TURN, MUST TURN RIGHT, UH, RIGHT LANE MUST TURN RIGHT SIGN.
UH, AS YOU'RE HEADING EASTBOUND APPROACHING THAT INTERSECTION, THERE'S CONFUSION, THERE'S A LOT OF MOVEMENT, A LOT OF CONGESTION IN THAT AREA.
UH, SO WE'RE HOPING THAT CONTINUES TO HELP THE TREND.
IF I COULD HAVE YOU JUST TURN TO PAGE 35 REAL QUICK.
UH, I, I, I DON'T WANNA GLOSS OVER THE, THERE'S A NICE, UH, UH, CHART THAT JOSH PUT TOGETHER.
BASICALLY SHOWING THE 2013 TO 2017 DATA YOU'LL SEE UP ABOVE, IT'S THE, THE SPREADSHEET BASICALLY RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE, THE THING.
AND THAT SHOWS THE TRA CURRENT TRAFFIC CONTROL, THAT DAILY TRAFFIC, THAT WAS IN 2013 TO 2017, PROJECTED TRAFFIC SPEED LIMIT.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, DOWN BELOW THERE, IT HAS REPORTED CRASHES IN 13 TO 17.
SO YOU CAN SEE THE TOTAL CRASHES IN 13 TO 17 WAS 53, WHICH RANKED SECOND IN TOTAL CRASHES.
THE CRASH RATE WAS 20TH AND THEN SEVERITY WAS 29TH.
OUT OF ALL THE INTERSECTIONS IN THE COUNTY, YOU PAGE LOOKED DOWN.
THE NEXT ONE IS 2018 THROUGH 22.
YOU CAN SEE THE TRAFFIC WENT FROM 30,600 TO 31,700.
THE NUMBER OF CRASHES WENT FROM 53 TO 50.
UH, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE CRASH RATE, HOW MANY CRASHES, YOU KNOW, PER MILLION VEHICLES ENTERING THAT, UH, WAS, WAS 20 NOW 25TH.
SO AGAIN, THE CRASH RATE WENT DOWN AND THE SEVERITY WENT FROM 29TH TO 39TH.
SO AGAIN, THE NUMBER OF SEVERE CRASHES WENT DOWN AS WELL.
SO AGAIN, WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT, THOSE TRENDS, AND AGAIN, WE'LL LOOK AT THIS ANOTHER COUPLE YEARS, BUT THAT'S REALLY THE TWO THAT ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO US.
THOSE TWO SPREADSHEETS THAT YOU SEE RIGHT THERE GOING, OKAY, THIS IS WHERE IT WAS BEFORE, THIS IS WHERE IT'S NOW, OH, IT'S NOT INCREASING, IT'S DECREASING.
SO MAYBE SOME MORE MODIFICATIONS.
WE CAN KEEP PUSHING THAT NUMBER DOWN A LITTLE BIT MORE.
THEN THE THIRD PROFILE STARTS ON PAGE 42, LOOKING AT HIGHWAY Q AND UM, PILGRIM, ANOTHER HIGH VOLUME INTERSECTION DOWN THERE IN THE VILLAGE OF GERMANTOWN AREA.
THIS IS REAL CLOSE TO THE NEW, RELATIVELY NEW FEDEX FACILITY.
SO TRAFFIC CHANGED DRASTICALLY AS THAT WAS INTRODUCED TO THE COMMUNITY.
UM, SO OBVIOUSLY WITH THAT ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC, WHICH IS SIGNIFICANT, UM, CRASHES AGAIN WENT UP IN THAT AREA, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE.
UM, SO WE LOOKED AT, UM, TRIED TO IDENT IDENTIFY SOME TRENDS THERE.
YOU CAN LOOK AT THE, AT THE DIAGRAM, PAGE 45, KIND OF CAPTURING THE ISSUES THERE, SOME ANGLE
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CRASHES, REAR ENDS.WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DO A LOT AT THIS ONE YET, BUT THERE COULD, THERE IS POTENTIAL THERE WHERE WE COULD ENHANCE, UM, MAYBE DO SOME OVERHEAD TRAFFIC SIGNALS, UM, UH, CHECKING THE WARNING SIGNS, APPROACHING THE INTERSECTIONS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
UM, SO THERE HASN'T BEEN A LOT DONE THERE, BUT, UM, SOME OF THOSE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'RE IDENTIFYING IS GONNA TAKE COORDINATION WITH OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.
I JUST A QUICK QUESTION ON THAT.
UM, YOU IDENTIFY AN INTERSECTION, UM, WHAT'S THE PROCESS TO IDENTIFY WHAT COULD BE CHANGED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, TO MAKE IT BETTER? MM-HMM,
JUST, JUST FOR MY OWN, YOU KNOW, MAKES SENSE.
I, I THINK TO START WITH IT, IT'S A, THAT, UH, JOSH AND I HAVE, YOU KNOW, UH, BEEN AROUND THE I DEPARTMENT FOR A LITTLE WHILE.
SO IT'S ONE, IT'S OUR EXPERIENCE.
UH, TWO, IT'S TAKING CLASSES ON IT AND LEARNING FROM THERE.
UH, BEING PART OF THE TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMISSION, GOING TO DIFFERENT SEMINARS ON TRAFFIC CONTROL AND HOW IT'S DONE READING ABOUT IT.
UH, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY IS WE IN THE PAST WE'VE RAN THESE BY THE STATE DOT SAFETY ENGINEERS AS WELL AS SEWER PACK.
SO WE'VE GOT LOCAL BUY-IN AS WELL AND SAYING, OKAY, WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR THIS IF IT WAS YOUR INTERSECTION, DOT OR SEWER PACK'S HELP.
SO THAT WE KIND OF TAKE ALL THAT STUFF EXPERIENCE AND LOOK AT IT AND GO, OKAY, THAT, UH, THESE INTERSECTIONS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ON HIGHWAY QUEUE WILL WORK WITH THE NEIGHBORING MUNICIPALITIES.
UH, THIS ONE FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU SEE UP HERE ON PILGRIM, YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF THOSE ANGLE CRASHES, RIGHT? YOU SEE THAT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING TO THE WEST ARE TRYING TO TURN SOUTH.
THEY GET HIT BY THE PERSON COMING OUTTA THE WAY.
ONE THING WE COULD DO IS A PROTECTED ARROW.
WHAT THAT IS LIKE THE GREEN, THE GREEN ARROW, RIGHT? SAYING THOSE PEOPLE CAN ONLY MAKE THAT TURNING MOVEMENT IF THERE'S A GREEN ARROW RIGHT NOW, THEY CAN JUST GO THROUGH IF THEY WITHOUT A GREEN ARROW RIGHT TURNS, YOU KNOW, THEY TURNS GREEN AND IT'S CAN GO BOTH, BOTH WAYS.
AND SO WE LOOK AT THAT GOING, WELL, HOW BAD IS THAT? AND WE LOOK AT 'EM ALL AND GOING, YEAH, THERE'S FIVE OF 'EM, BUT THEY'RE ALL PROPERTY DAMAGE ONLY.
AND SO IF WE LOOK AT THAT GOING, WELL, DO WE WANT EVERYBODY TO SIT THERE AND WAIT NOW AND CAUSE THEM TO BE DELAYED AND MAYBE THEY'LL TAKE A CHANCE THEN TRYING TO GET THROUGH THAT, YOU KNOW, GREEN LIGHT 'CAUSE THEY KNOW THAT ARROW'S COMING AND THEY'LL SHUT 'EM DOWN.
SO IT'S KIND OF A, A BALANCING ACT THERE THAT, THAT WE DO.
AND, AND INTERNALLY WE WORK WITH THOSE LOCAL VILLAGES GOING, WELL, FIVE CRASHES IN FIVE YEARS, ONE YEAR.
THEY'RE ALL PROPERTY DAMAGE ONLY.
ALRIGHT, LET'S JUST, LET'S JUST KEEP MOVING ON.
UM, OR IF THERE'S MORE SEVERE ONES WE COULD GO, IT'S TIME TO DO IT.
OKAY, I'M GONNA GO TO THE NEXT ONE.
UM, PROFILE NUMBER FOUR STARTING AT PAGE 48.
UH, THIS IS HIGHWAY Q AND HIGHWAY Y, ALSO KNOWN AS LANDON ROAD.
UM, SO AGAIN, WE'RE STILL IN THAT SAME GENERAL AREA JUST FURTHER WEST NOW ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FREEWAY, UM, IF YOU LOOK AT THE DIAGRAM ON PAGE 51, BIGGEST ISSUE ON THIS ONE WAS THAT NORTH LEG AS SOUTHBOUND TRAFFIC IS APPROACHING, UH, A LOT OF REAR ENDS REAR END CRASHES HERE.
UM, ESPECIALLY WITH THE TRAFFIC TURNING EASTBOUND.
SO WE LOOKED AT THAT, YOU CAN SEE SOME PICTURES IN THE PLAN AS WELL.
UM, WE'RE TRYING TO ALIGN TRAFFIC AS THEY'RE COMING SOUTHBOUND, TURNING, TURNING WEST, UM, TRYING TO PUT 'EM IN A BETTER POSITION FOR, FOR SIGHT.
UM, AND JUST SAY FOR ALIGNMENT HERE.
SO WE DID ADJUST THAT STOP SIGN.
UM, THERE'S SOME OTHER POTENTIAL THERE TOO THAT AGAIN, COULD INVOLVE TRAFFIC SIGNALS.
UM, SO WE'RE GIVING THIS ONE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TO SEE IF THIS IS GONNA HELP.
PREVIOUSLY THERE WAS A LOT OF THAT.
YOU SEE THAT ON THE UPPER PART OF THE SCREEN, THE TWO ARROWS THAT ARE KIND OF AN ANGLE.
BEFORE WE HAD A LOT OF THOSE CRASHES THAT WERE PEOPLE MAKING A TURN AND JUST NOT, SO WE MADE SOME IMPROVEMENTS THERE.
BUT NOW THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING THROUGH THE INTERSECTION FOR WHATEVER REASON THE LAST FIVE YEARS NOW, THOSE PEOPLE KEEP BUMPING INTO EACH OTHER.
AND SO IF YOU GO UP TO THE, THE PICTURE RIGHT ABOVE THAT JOSH AND POINT TO THE UPPER PICTURE, UM, YOU'LL SEE YOU'RE KIND OF COMING AROUND A CORNER THERE A LITTLE BIT AND YOU KNOW, GOING, YEAH, IF TRAFFIC'S BACKED UP BECAUSE WE'VE GOT MORE CARS THERE, WE'RE GONNA DO SOME MORE ADVANCED WARNING SIGNS.
MAKE SURE THEY KNOW THAT THAT INTERSECTION IS UP THERE AHEAD OF TIME.
THE OTHER OPTION IS TO PUT THE TROMBONE ARMS UP ABOVE THE INTERSECTION WITH THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS TO MAKE 'EM UP AND HIGHER, UH, OR PUT ANOTHER POST RATE IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT MEDIAN.
SO THAT'S JUST KIND OF THE OPTIONS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THERE GOING, ALRIGHT, I THINK WE, WE CAN, YOU LOOK AT THOSE, THAT CRASH DIAGRAM AND YOU, THE BIG IS ALL THOSE PEOPLE HEADING SOUTHBOUND AND BUMPING INTO EACH OTHER.
AND SO HOW CAN WE SOLVE THAT? SO WE GOT SOME IDEAS THERE.
NEXT ONE I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT IS, UH, NUMBER FIVE ON PAGE 54, HIGHWAY COUNTY HIGHWAY M, ALSO KNOWN AS MASAKI ROAD AND FORMERLY COUNTY HIGHWAY F.
UH, THIS WAS A TWO-WAY STOP WITH HAD IT HAD A SIGNIFICANT CRASH HISTORY WITH WITH THAT ONE.
UM, A LOT OF IMPROVEMENTS MADE AGAIN IS KIND OF TIMING IT
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WITH OUR 2023 HIGHWAY M RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT.THIS INTERSECTION WAS RESURFACED AND THE TRAFFIC CONTROL WAS ENHANCED, GREATLY CONVERTED FROM A TWO-WAY STOP TO A FOUR-WAY.
AND I CAN SHOW YOU SOME VISUALS THERE OF THE, THE SIGNAGE THAT EXISTS TODAY.
UM, SO USING THOSE, HIS SUB FUNDS, AGAIN, THE 90 10 SPLIT PROGRAM, UM, HAS BEEN EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE.
YOU CAN SEE THE OVERHEAD STOP SIGNS THERE.
WE GOT DUAL STOP SIGNS, REFLECTION EVERYWHERE, ADVANCED WARNING SIGNAGE FLAGS.
AND I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, THIS HAS WORKED GREATLY.
THIS HAS BEEN SUPER SUCCESSFUL.
UM, A LOT OF CRASHES IN THE PAST AND EVER SINCE THAT'S GONE IN THERE, WE USED TO GET A LOT OF CALLS.
NOW WE DON'T GET ANY CALLS DOWN THERE AND HOPEFULLY IT STAYS THAT WAY.
AND YOU CAN SEE THAT LAST LINE ON PAGE 54, THERE WAS ONE CRASH SINCE THAT CONVERSION.
IT WAS JUST A FAILURE TO YIELD IN 2022 AND NO CRASHES SINCE AS OF MAY OF THIS YEAR.
UM, HIGHWAY F THEN WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE VILLAGE OF GERMANTOWN.
UM, BUT WE STILL MAINTAINED CONTROL DUE TO HIGHWAY M BEING A PART OF THAT.
IS THAT WHY A TRAFFIC COUNT WENT DOWN? 'CAUSE WE TRANSFERRED THE ROAD AND THERE'S MAYBE THEY FOUND A BETTER WAY TO GET AROUND.
SOMETIMES TRAFFIC COUNTS CAN GET AFFECTED BY PROJECTS IN THE AREA AND DETOURS OH GOTCHA.
ARE GONNA INFLUENCE TRAFFIC COUNTS ON CERTAIN ROADS AND, AND NOT SO MUCH OTHERS.
SO THAT, THAT CAN PLAY A FACTOR SOMETIMES.
SO THAT WOULD SKEW THIS A LITTLE BIT.
IF THERE'S A DETOUR FOR WHATEVER REASON OR SOMETHING, IT'S POSSIBLE.
THE DOT DOES TRAFFIC COUNTS EVERY SO MANY YEARS.
AND SO IF THERE WAS A DETOUR IN 13 TO 17 WHEN THEY DID IT IN THAT WINDOW, IT COULD HAVE BEEN A HIGHER NUMBER BACK THEN.
SO, UM, WE'D HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT WHEN THEY DID IT AND WHAT PROJECTS WERE GOING ON.
LIKE FOR INSTANCE, I MEAN WHEN I LOOK AT ALL THE OTHER ONES, THEY'RE ALL GOING UP, RIGHT? CORRECT.
'CAUSE WE WOULD ASSUME THE POPULATION INCREASE AND STUFF, BUT, BUT THAT ONE WENT WAY DOWN
WHAT, UH, WHAT IS THE FEET ON A STOP AHEAD SIGN BEFORE THE STOP SITE? HOW MANY FEET YOU SAY? 750 FEET TYPICALLY SPEAKING.
UH, 750 FEET AND 55 MILE AN HOUR ZONE.
UH, IF YOU WANT HELP AND EXACT NUMBERS, DEPENDS ON YOUR SPEED, UH, WE'D BE HAPPY TO PROVIDE ANY OF THOSE INFORMATIONS TO YOU OFF OFFLINE.
BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING, THE STOP AHEAD SIGNS ABOUT SEVEN 50 FEET ON A 55 MILE AN HOUR ROADWAY.
AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE DID LAST TIME, WE LOOKED AT THAT GOING, YEAH, THERE'S SOME THAT WEREN'T QUITE IN THE RIGHT LOCATION.
NOW I'M GONNA PICK ON YOUR MUNICIPALITY HAD ONE THAT WAS INCORRECT AND WE ACTUALLY HAD TO ADJUST IT TO MAKE, MAKE IT AT THE RIGHT RIGHT DISTANCE.
BECAUSE HAVING THAT UNIFORMITY LETS PEOPLE KNOW WHEN TO, IF THEY'RE ALL AT DIFFERENT LENGTHS, YOU CAN IMAGINE ONE'S AT 200 FEET OR ONE'S AT A THOUSAND FEET.
UH, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE DRIVING IT, IF YOU SEE A SIGN AT A THOUSAND FEET, YOU'RE GOING, WHERE THE HECK IS THIS INTERSECTION? IF YOU PUT ONE AT 200 FEET AT A TIME, THEY'RE GONNA GO, HOLY COW, IT'S RIGHT THERE.
UM, SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT THOSE ARE UNIFORM AND THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE THE MANUAL FOR UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES.
AND IT SAYS RIGHT IN THERE WHERE THEY SHOULD BE.
AND OUR SIGN GUYS ARE FANTASTIC AT DOING THOSE MEASUREMENTS.
IF YOU HAVE A BLIND INTERSECTION, NOEL SAY YOU'RE COMING UP OVER A HILL, DO YOU ADD, DO YOU ADD YOU CAN ADD ADDITIONAL HEADS, YOU CAN ADD ADDITIONAL, CORRECT.
YOU CAN ALWAYS ADD ADDITIONAL.
YOU JUST CAN'T DO LESS, LESS OR SHOULDN'T DO LESS.
OKAY, WE'RE GONNA SHIFT GEARS A LITTLE BIT, UM, ONTO PROFILE NUMBER SIX, PAGE 60.
SO NOW WE'RE TRANSITIONING INTO INTERSECTIONS WITH HIGH CRASH RATE.
SO WE'RE KIND OF MOVING OUT OF THAT URBANIZED, UH, GERMANTOWN AREA DOWN THERE TO SOME OF THE LESSER VOLUME ROADS, BUT STILL MAINTAINING A HIGHER LE HIGHER RATE OF CRASH.
UH, FIRST ONE IS HIGHWAY G, IT'S DIVISION ROAD AND PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD.
UM, SO IN THE JACKSON AREA, AGAIN THERE FOR SOME REASON THAT HAS PRODUCED CONSISTENTLY HIGH CRASH RATE.
UM, WE'VE, WE'VE DONE WORK OUT THERE.
WE'VE ENHANCED THE SIGNAGE, WE'VE CUT VEGETATION, WE'VE OPENED UP VISION, UM, BUT FOR SOME REASON THAT EAST WEST TRAFFIC AND YOU CAN SEE SOME IN THE DIAGRAM THERE ON PAGE 63, UH, IT'S REALLY THAT NORTHWEST QUADRANT.
WE'RE GETTING ANGLE CRASHES THERE.
UM, SO THERE'S A FEW MORE ENHANCEMENTS WE COULD, WE COULD GO TO DUAL STOP SIGNS OUT THERE, WE MIGHT TRY THAT.
UM, ADVANCED WARNING SIGNAGE IS THERE AND IS UP TO STANDARDS.
UM, BUT IS AGAIN, WE'RE JUST KIND OF, WE'RE GIVING GIVING THIS TIME TO SEE IF THIS IS GONNA HELP YOU DON'T SEE RESULTS RIGHT AWAY OVERNIGHT.
UM, BUT THERE'S A FEW THINGS WE COULD DO OUT IN THIS AREA AS WELL.
IF YOU'VE GOT ANY QUESTIONS, UM, PLEASE SPEAK UP.
I'M GONNA JUST KEEP ON GOING THROUGH THE LIST.
UH, THE NEXT ONE I WANT TO GO OVER IS HIGHWAY M AND PLEASANT VALLEY, AGAIN, TOWN OF JACKSON.
UM, FOR THIS ONE WE DIDN'T REALLY SEE AN ISSUE WITH.
UM, THERE'S DOWN BY THE JAILHOUSE RESTAURANT AND THERE'S SOME TRAFFIC THAT WAS COMING OUTTA THERE.
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UM, THIS PROFILE STARTS ON PAGE 65.THERE'S THREE CRASHES IN THAT AREA.
NOT BELIEVED TO BE DUE TO THE ACTUAL CONFIGURATION OF THE INTERSECTION.
IT WAS JUST TRAFFIC COMING IN AND OUTTA THE, THE PARKING LOT OF THE, OF THE RESTAURANT.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THERE THAT WE REVIEWED IT, WE DON'T SEE ANY ACTION NEEDED.
UM, AND HOPEFULLY THERE'S NO, NO MAJOR ISSUES MOVING FORWARD.
UM, THIS ONE'S STARTING TO GAIN A LITTLE BIT MORE ATTENTION.
UM, IT'S, IF YOU LOOK AT THE DIAGRAM THERE, IT'S UH, PRIMARILY EASTBOUND TRAFFIC.
UH, THERE'S SOME REAR ENDS AS THEY'RE APPROACHING THAT INTERSECTION.
SO THERE'S A POTENTIAL THERE THAT WE COULD MAYBE DO A TURN LANE, UM, OR WIDEN IT OUT THAT WAY.
ENHANCE THE WARNING SIGNAGE AGAIN.
SO, UM, WE'LL SEE WHAT WE CAN DO AT AT THIS ONE.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DIAGRAM ON PAGE 73, YOU'LL SEE, YOU KNOW, TWO CRASHES, ONE LOCATION, TWO CRASHES IN OUR LOCATION, TWO CRASHES, ANOTHER LOCATION.
YOU KNOW, NOT, NOT A REALLY DISTINCT PATTERN ON THAT.
AND IF YOU, YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THAT INTERSECTION.
I KNOW SOME OF YOU PROBABLY ARE.
UH, IT'S GREAT SITE DISTANCE LOOKING EAST WEST, YOU KNOW, NORTH SOUTH THERE, THERE SHOULDN'T BE A PROBLEM THERE.
IT'S, YOU CAN SEE FOR ALMOST PROBABLY A MILE AND A HALF TO THE EAST AND HALF MILE TO THE WEST.
UM, UH, SO, UH, WE LOOK AT THEN THE AUXILIARY FACTORS WAS ALCOHOL FACTOR, WAS THE WEATHER FACTOR, STUFF LIKE THAT.
AND THAT'S ONE THING THAT'S NICE ON THE, THE NEXT SHEET TOO, SAYING, YEAH, THERE WAS THREE OF THEM WAS, EXCUSE ME, THREE OF THAT SAID WET, ONE RAIN, ONE ICE GOING WELL, WEATHER MIGHT BE THE BIGGEST FACTOR OUT THERE THAN, THAN ANYTHING GOING.
THAT'S, THAT'S A, A, A, A PRETTY BIG FACTOR.
WE LOOKING, WE ACTUALLY LOOK AT STUFF LIKE, IS IT SUN? ARE THEY LOOKING INTO THE SUN IN MORNING? ARE THEY LOOKING AT SUN AT NIGHT? ALL THAT STUFF WE LOOK AT GOING IS, IS THAT PART OF THE ISSUE? SO, UH, THIS ONE IS, UH, IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF ANOMALY FOR US AND WE'RE GONNA TAKE, TAKE A CRACK AT PUTTING SOME INTERSECTION HEAD SIGNS UP SO PEOPLE CAN SEE THAT.
SOME RELATIVELY, UH, INEXPENSIVE MODIFICATIONS THERE.
BUT, UH, IT'S ALL SORTS OF MONTHS, ALL SORTS OF TIME OF THE DAYS.
IT, IT REALLY DOESN'T LEND ITSELF TO SAY THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD DO.
SO, UM, WE'LL KEEP PUSHING AWAY ON THIS ONE.
NEXT ONE IS, UH, PROFILE NINE, PAGE 75, HIGHWAY U AND ARTHUR ROAD.
UH, SO NOW WE'RE IN THE TOWN OF HARTFORD.
UM, VERY RURAL AREA, LOWER TRAFFIC VOLUME THERE.
UM, THE ISSUE THAT WE SEE IS THAT TRAFFIC JUST SEEMS TO BE IGNORING THE STOP SIGNS ON ARTHUR ROAD AND KIND OF BLOWING THROUGH THE INTERSECTION ON OF, WITH HIGHWAY Q.
UM, WE ALSO LOOK AT THE TIME OF YEAR AND THE VISION.
SO OUT HERE IN THE MORE RURAL COUNTRY AREA, YOU GOT FARM FIELDS ON EVERY QUADRANT OF THE INTERSECTION.
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE STANDING CORN, YOU HAVE OTHER THINGS THAT, THAT ARE NOT NECESSARILY THERE ON OTHER TIMES OF THE YEAR, BUT THEY'RE BLOCKING VISION AND THEY'RE POTENTIALLY GAMBLING AND GOING THROUGH THE STOP SIGNS ASSUMING THERE'S NO CARS COMING.
AND APPARENTLY THERE ARE SOME TIMES, UM, SO WE CAN ENHANCE THE, THE ADVANCED WARNING SIGNAGE THERE TO SEE IF THAT IS EFFECTIVE AND REALLY JUST GIVE THEM NO EXCUSE TO SAY THAT THEY DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO STOP.
UM, SO THERE'S SOME THINGS WE CAN TRY THERE AS WELL.
RELATIVELY LOW COST IMPROVEMENTS.
YEAH, IF YOU LOOK AT 70 PAGE 79, THAT GIVES A LITTLE DESCRIPTION.
SO FAILURE TO YIELD IS BASICALLY STOP AT THE STOP SIGN AND PULLED IN FRONT OF SOMEBODY AS A FAILURE TO YIELD, YIELD, DISREGARDING TRAFFIC CONTROL, THAT MEANS THEY DIDN'T STOP.
AND SO HAVING FIVE OF THE SEVEN WHERE PEOPLE JUST DIDN'T EVEN STOP, THAT'S ALARMING.
UM, YOU KNOW, IF WE, IF IT KEEPS TRENDING THAT WAY, CERTAINLY WE'RE DOWN TO, DO WE PUT RUMBLE STRIPS IN? ARE THESE JUST PEOPLE THAT ARE JUST, I'M JUST GOING THROUGH, UH, HIGHWAY U HAS A LITTLE LOWER TRAFFIC VOLUME FOR ONE OF OUR TYPICAL COUNTY HIGHWAYS.
YOU CAN SEE THE TRAFFIC VOLUME'S NOT AS HIGH THERE.
SO LIKE JOSH SAID, MAYBE IT MUST BE JUST TAKING CHANCES TOO.
AND SO AGAIN, UM, DEPENDING ON THE TIME OF THE YEAR, UH, YOU KNOW, WITH THE FARM FIELDS THAT ARE OUT THERE, JULY AND AUGUST, NOT A GREAT TIME TO DISREGARD THAT TRAFFIC CONTROL.
MAYBE IN JANUARY YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH IT BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING OUT THERE YOU CAN MAYBE SEE.
BUT, UH, WHEN THAT CROP IS ON THAT FIELD, UM, IT'S CHALLENGING.
YOU KNOW, ONE OPTION OUT THERE IS WE BUY VISION TRIANGLES AND WE BUY THAT FARMLAND AND, AND CUT THE GRASS AND WE HOPEFULLY WE'RE NOT THERE YET.
SO MAYBE SOME OFFICERS OUT THERE AT CERTAIN TIMES AS WELL AS THE TRAFFIC CONTROL WE'RE DOING, UH, CAN ELIMINATE THAT.
BUT IF IT TRENDS THIS WAY, UH, THAT MIGHT BE AN OPTION TOO, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PEOPLE COMING DOWN HIGHWAY U HAVE A CHANCE TO SLOW DOWN OR STOP BEFORE THEY HIT THAT CAR.
SO AGAIN, WE'RE NOT PROPOSING THAT RIGHT NOW, BUT IF THE TREND CONTINUES LIKE THIS, WE WE GOTTA BE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE TRAFFIC IN HIGHWAY U IS SAFE AS WELL AND THEY CAN SEE THAT OUR CAR, THAT'S NOT GONNA STOP AND THEY HAVE TIME TO MAKE IT A MANEUVER.
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KNOW YOU TALKED ABOUT STANDING CORN, BUT ISN'T THERE A DITCH LINE AND THEY, THE CORN'S STILL BACK 10 FEET FROM THE INTERSECTION WHERE WELL, BUT IF YOU, IF SOMEONE'S GOING 55 MILES ON ONE ROAD AND 55 MILES THE OTHER WAY AND HE DOESN'T STOP, THEN HE DOESN'T STOP.RIGHT? STOP IF THEY'RE STOP AT THE STOP, STOP SIGN.
IF THEY'RE STOP AT THE STOP SIGN, I SAID THIS IS DISREGARDING, THEY'RE NOT STOPPING.
RIGHT? THE FAILURE TO EAGLE IS THEY STOPPED AND LOOKED THEN IT'S FINE.
IT'S WHEN THEY DON'T STOP AT ALL.
AND YOU CAN IMAGINE IF YOU CAN'T SEE THAT CAR UNTIL IT'S 50 FEET IN FRONT OF YOU, IT'S TOO LATE.
WELL, ONE HAS TO WONDER IF THERE'S ALREADY A STOP SIGN OF PUTTING A BIGGER ONE THERE, THEY'RE GONNA STOP.
WELL, WHAT YOU SAID THAT THE RUMBLES THE RUNNING OVER THOSE STRIPS, RIGHT? I MEAN, YOU HAVE TO RUN OVER 'EM AND CORRECT AND GONNA NOTIFY YOU, RIGHT? WHETHER YOU SEE THE STOP SIGN OR YOU CHOOSE NOT TO, YOU'RE GONNA DRIVE OVER THOSE THINGS.
CORRECT? UH, WE, WE, WE GENERALLY SPEAKING AND DON'T LIKE TO INTRODUCE THOSE BECAUSE OF THE NOISE QUALITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE, THAT LIVE THERE AND AROUND THERE OR WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS JUST COMPLIANCE AND, AND OFFICERS ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO GET COMPLIANCE FOR, FOR THAT TRAFFIC CONTROL.
AND, UM, LIKE I SAID, WE'RE GONNA TRY WITH THE OTHER STOP SIGNS, DUAL STOP SIGNS, STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO WHEN YOU LOOK, THAT'S, THAT'S FIELD.
THERE'S NOT, THERE'S, THERE'S NO HOMES REALLY NEAR THERE, SO CORRECT.
IT'S, I I UNDERSTAND THE POINT OF IT, BUT THERE'S NOBODY THERE, CORRECT.
SO, YEP, THERE'S A FARM JUST NORTH AND EAST OF THERE, BUT THAT'S THE CLOSEST ONE.
SO NOW WE'RE GONNA SHIFT GEARS AGAIN.
UM, KIND OF GOING FROM THE CRASH RATE TO THE CRASH SEVERITY LIST.
UM, FIRST ONE THAT CAME UP IS, UH, HIGHWAY Z IN PLEASANT VALLEY.
UNFORTUNATELY, THERE WAS A, A, A FATAL INVOLVED WITH THIS ONE.
UM, WE REVIEWED THIS ONE AND THAT BECAUSE OF THAT CRASH AND THE FATALITY THERE, THAT ONE SHOT THIS ONE TO THE TOP OF THE LIST FOR SEVERITY.
UH, AFTER LOOKING AT IT AND REVIEWING THE, THE ACCIDENT OR CRASH INFORMATION, IT WAS AN IMPAIRED DRIVER THAT WAS SPEEDING FROM EAST TO WEST ON PLEASANT VALLEY.
BLEW THROUGH THE INTERSECTION AND HIT A CAR.
UM, UNFORTUNATELY FOR THE CAR ON HIGHWAY Z, GOT GOT THE, THE WRONG END OF IT.
UM, VISION IS TO STANDARDS OUT THERE.
WE REVIEWED THE SIGNAGE, A ADVANCE SWORN SIGNAGE IS IN PLACE.
WE WENT AHEAD AND JUST MADE AN OP AN UPGRADE TO THE STOP SIGNS THERE, WHICH YOU CAN SEE ON HI ON PAGE 82.
UM, WE WENT TO A DUAL STOP SIGN THERE JUST TO TRY TO DO SOMETHING, UM, HOPEFULLY PREVENT THIS AGAIN IN, UH, ANYTHING LIKE THIS FOR THE FUTURE.
SO WE GOT DUAL STU SIGNAGE THERE, AS WELL AS THE RED REFLECTIVE STRIPS ON THE POSTS.
UM, THAT POTENTIALLY CAN HELP JUST WITH THE IMPAIRMENT FACTOR TO HAVE THAT EXTRA REFLECTIVITY OUT THERE.
AND HOPEFULLY YOU NEVER HAVE TO DEAL WITH THAT AGAIN AT THE INTERSECTION.
NEXT ONE, PROFILE 11, PAGE 80 5K AND WILDLIFE ROAD.
UH, THIS IS IN, ON THE BORDER OF TOWN OF ADDISON.
THERE'S, THERE'S JUST ONE CRASH, BUT IT WAS A SEVERE ONE INVOLVING A MOTORCYCLE.
SO USUALLY WHEN THERE'S A MOTORCYCLE INVOLVED, IT'S GONNA TRIGGER SOME HIGH SEVERITY AS YOU CAN IMAGINE.
UM, SO THERE REALLY WASN'T A LOT TO DO AT THIS ONE.
UM, BUT HIGHWAY K WAS GREATLY ENHANCED THROUGH A RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT AS WELL.
A FEW YEARS AGO, UM, 2019, UH, THAT HIGHWAY WAS WIDENED, TURN, LANES WERE ADDED, UM, MIDDLE TURN LANES WERE ADDED AS WELL.
UM, VISION WAS ENHANCED, SO THAT THING RECEIVED A MAJOR OVERHAUL.
SO HOPEFULLY THAT'S NOT AN ISSUE AGAIN, AT, AT, AT THIS INTERSECTION.
MOVING FORWARD, UM, JUST ON COINCIDENTALLY INVOLVED THAT MOTORCYCLE TURN LANES, DID THEY REALLY ENHANCED THE, IN THE TRAFFIC FLOW? OH YEAH.
ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE, THERE'S PRETTY HIGH SEMI TRAFFIC DOWN THERE TOO WITH, WITH SOME OF THE TRUCKING COMPANIES, UM, CONCRETE TOO.
GET THEM OUT, GET THEM, GET THEM OUT OF THERE, GET THEM CLEAR AND OPEN UP THE LANE.
HAVING SOME DECELERATION ACCELERATION AREA AS WELL HELPS THAT A LOT.
UM, NEXT ONE IS HIGHWAY D AND GLACIER DRIVE PROFILE 12 ON PAGE 89.
AGAIN, UM, THIS IS INVOLVING A MOTORCYCLE, SO RESULTED IN A HIGHER SEVERITY.
THERE'S JUST THAT ONE CRASH DURING THAT FIVE YEAR PERIOD.
UM, WE DON'T SEE ANY IMMEDIATE NEED TO DO SOME ENHANCEMENTS, BUT WE COULD, WE DO HAVE A PAVING PROJECT COMING TO THAT AREA HERE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
SO WE'LL BE DISCUSSING TO SEE IF WE GOTTA DO ANY WIDENING AROUND THIS INTERSECTION.
UM, BUT IT'LL JUST KIND OF THAT ONE ANOMALY CRASH THERE THAT INVOLVED THE MOTORCYCLE AGAIN.
UM, NEXT ONE IS PROFILE 13, PAGE 93 Q AND DEBBIE LANE.
UM, JUST ONE CRASH, BUT AGAIN, THERE WAS, THERE WAS SOME MORE SEVERE INJURIES TRADING, HIGH SEVERITY.
UM, THAT INVOLVED ACTUALLY THREE VEHICLES, SO IT WAS A REAR END IN PUSHING INTO ANOTHER CAR TYPE DEAL.
SO THERE WERE, THERE WAS, THERE WERE INJURIES THERE.
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UM, FORTUNATELY JUST ONE CRASH.UM, SO WE DON'T SEE A MAJOR NEED.
THERE COULD BE SOME TURN LANES ADDED TO THAT AREA IF NEEDED, IF SOMETHING HAPPENS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE.
BUT, UM, TRAFFIC IS GENERALLY MOVING SLOWLY 'CAUSE OF THE ROUNDABOUT JUST TO THE WEST OF THERE.
SO, UM, HOPEFULLY NOT A, NOT AN ISSUE MOVING FORWARD.
AND THAT ONE AS WELL, THERE'S A, THERE WAS A PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT COMING IN TOO AT THE NORTH END OF THAT PROJECT, SO IF THEY DO THAT, WE'D HAVE THEM PUT IN THE, THE TURN LANE AND BYPASS LANE RIGHT THERE.
AND, AND THAT WOULD SOLVE THAT PROBLEM AS WELL.
SO, ON TO THE NEXT ONE, UM, PROFILE 14, PAGE 97.
UM, TWO CRASHES IN THE FIVE YEAR PERIOD.
UM, BOTH INVOLVING SOUTHBOUND VEHICLES ON M UH, BEING STRUCK BY EASTBOUND VEHICLES ON NNN.
UM, ONE WAS A MOTORCYCLE AGAIN, SO THAT KIND OF ESCALATED THE SEVERITY.
UM, AND THEN THE OTHER ONE RESULTED IN, IN THREE INJURY INJURIES, ONE SERIOUS.
UM, SO NOT A HIGH NUMBER OF CRASHES.
WE REVIEWED THAT THERE IS SIGHT THERE, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF, OF A DIP ON NNN AND LOOKING TOWARDS THE CURVE FROM THE INTERSECTION, BUT YOU DON'T LOSE VISION THERE.
SO WE'RE GONNA KEEP AN EYE ON THIS ONE, UM, CONSIDERING A FEW DIFFERENT THINGS, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GET REDUCED SPEED LIMITS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT THERE YET.
WE'RE GONNA MONITOR THIS ONE AND SEE IF, IF ANYTHING CONTINUES TO HAPPEN.
REAL QUICK QUESTION, UM, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT, OBVIOUSLY YOU HAD THE MOTORCYCLE CRASH THAT ADDS TO SEVERITY, RIGHT? DO YOU REMOVE THAT ACCIDENT AND LOOK AT IT THAT WAY TOO? RE REMOVE THE MOTORCYCLE CONCEPT AND THEN SAY, OKAY, IF IT WASN'T FOR THAT ONE MOTORCYCLE THOUGH, THIS IS ACTUALLY A PRETTY SAFE INTERSECTION AND THAT COULD BE A HUMAN ERROR THING OR SOMETHING ELSE, RIGHT? YEAH, I MEAN, IT, IT'S KIND OF A MATTER OF WHERE DO YOU DRAW THE LINE, WHAT DO YOU INCLUDE AND WHAT DO YOU NOT INCLUDE, RIGHT? I MEAN, DO YOU INCLUDE IMPAIRMENT, YOU KNOW, IT'S OTHER FACTORS.
IT IT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED BECAUSE IT DOES EXIST OUT THERE, RIGHT? UM, AND IF IT IS A TRACTION ISSUE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, AND IT, YOU KNOW, MOTORCYCLES ARE, ARE LE LEGAL VEHICLES OUT THERE? MM-HMM.
SO YOU DO NEED TO PLAN AHEAD IF THERE IS A TREND, MAYBE IT'S SOME SPECIFIC TO MOTORCYCLES, UM, MAYBE IT'S A TRACTION ISSUE.
MAYBE WE GOTTA PUT A NEW KIND OF SURFACE OUT THERE OR SOMETHING.
SO THAT'S WHY WE LEAVE THAT IN THERE.
UM, BUT WE DO CONSIDER THAT, YOU KNOW, AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THE BIG PICTURE, RIGHT? UM, AND IF WE DO JUSTIFY CERTAIN CHANGES OR NOT OTHERS, BUT I MEAN, IF, IF, IF YOU JUST LOOK AT IT WITH THE MOTORCYCLE AND THEN SEE WHAT WITHOUT, RIGHT.
AND WHAT DOES THAT DO TO YOUR SEVERITY RATING? THAT MOTORCYCLE CAN BE THE ANOMALY AND YEAH, THEY'RE OUT THERE, I GET IT.
BUT THAT CAN REALLY CHANGE YOUR PROFILE OR TO CHANGE THE WHOLE, YOU KNOW, AND, AND OUR OPINION, IT'S BEST TO GIVE YOU ALL THE DATA AND NOT GO BEHIND THE SCENES AND PULL STUFF OUT, TAKE STUFF OUT, STUFF LIKE THAT.
JUST LIKE WE LEAVE THE IMPAIRED ONES IN.
BUT LIKE JOSH SAID, WE LOOK AT THAT BEHIND THE SCENES GOING, WELL, FOUR OF THE FIVE WERE IMPAIRED.
ALRIGHT, NOW WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE SURE THAT IMPAIRED DRIVER IS AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE AND THE PEOPLE DRIVING THE OTHER WAY ARE SAFE AS POSSIBLE? WHAT CAN WE DO? LIKE JOSH SAID, MAYBE THE REFLECTIVE STRIP THEY'LL SEE OR, OR A LARGER STOP SIGN OR SOMETHING TO HELP THAT THING.
OR IF THERE'S A TAVERN RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD, TALK TO THE SHERIFF.
SO STUFF LIKE THAT, THAT'S WHY WE WANNA MAKE SURE EVERYTHING THAT'S IN THERE IS INCLUDED, SUCH AS THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING WE CAN DO TO HELP THE MOTORCYCLISTS OUT TOO.
MM-HMM,
UH, THERE IS A SUMMARY RIGHT AFTER THAT TOO TO KIND OF KIND OF BOIL ALL THAT DOWN TO SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE PALATABLE.
UM, IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON ANY SPECIFIC INTERSECTIONS, UM, THAT YOU MIGHT, AREAS FROM WHERE YOU REPRESENT OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, OR IF YOU KNOW OF ANYBODY THAT'S GOT ANY QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS ON INTERSECTION SAFETY, FEEL FREE TO POINT 'EM OUR WAY.
WE CAN DIG INTO THE SYSTEM AND WE CAN LOOK AT CRASH REPORTS, EVEN IF IT'S NOT HIGHLIGHTED IN THE PLAN.
UH, WE DO TAKE THOSE CALLS AND, UM, AS THEY COME IN.
SO DOES SOMEBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE PLAN? IT'S, IT'S REALLY A GREAT TOOL.
UH, IT'S A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT THAT GOES INTO IT, BUT IT, IT, IT'S REALLY GREAT TO SEE THE ACTION AND, AND WITH YOUR SUPPORT AND FUNDING TO MAKE THESE SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS AND TO SEE THOSE NUMBERS OF CRASHES DECLINE.
AND IT, AND IT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE, IN THE REAL WORLD OUT THERE.
JUST A, HOW DID YOU SELECT THESE HERE? WAS IT JUST BY NUMBER OF CRASHES OR A GENERAL, AN AREA OR THROUGH THE, HOW DID YOU, HOW DID YOU SELECT THESE? HERE? JUST STARTED, STARTED WITH THE COUNTY CONTROLLED ONES THAT WE ACTUALLY CAN HAVE AUTHORITY OVER, BUT THEN BREAKING IT DOWN, WE, WE TAKE THAT CRASH DATA FROM THAT PORTAL AND THEN WE BREAK IT DOWN BY THE NUMBER OF CRASHES, CRASH RATE AND SEVERITY.
AND WE LOOK AT IT INTO THOSE THREE DIFFERENT LENSES.
UM, 'CAUSE IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S HARD TO SAY ONE'S MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE OTHER.
THEY ALL HAVE THEIR OWN IMPORTANCE LOOK AT.
AND THAT'S WHY WE PRODUCE THREE
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DIFFERENT LISTS AND WE LOOK AT IT THREE DIFFERENT WAYS.UM, AND WE ALSO PAY ATTENTION JUST BECAUSE IT'S NOT HIGHLIGHTED IN A, IN A PROFILE IN THIS PLAN.
IF WE START TO NOTICE AND SEE THINGS AND HEADLINES AND, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN SEE OTHER ONES HAPPENING.
WE'RE NOT WAITING FIVE YEARS TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS ON OTHER INTERSECTIONS JUST 'CAUSE IT'S NOT SHOWN IN HERE.
SOMETHING COULD POP UP AND, AND LAND USE HAS CHANGED.
BUSINESSES, INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES GO UP, IT'S GONNA CHANGE TRAFFIC.
A THE AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFICS ARE INCREASING.
THEY'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO DO, SO WE'RE TRYING TO STAY AHEAD OF THE GAME.
I THINK THAT'S A, A FANTASTIC POINT.
JOSH MADE THAT EVEN THOUGH WE, WE DIDN'T MENTION LIKE P AND WESTERN AND P AND SHERMAN, WE DID MAKE IMPROVEMENTS TO THOSE INTERSECTIONS NOW 'CAUSE WE COULD SEE TRENDS GOING IN A, IN A NOT DIRECTION WE LIKED.
AND SO ANYTIME WE DO A ROAD PAVING PROJECT OR, UH, RECONSTRUCTION, WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS DATA AND PULLING UP NEW DATA AND FRESH DATA ALL THE TIME TO SEE, RIGHT, WHAT CAN WE DO? WHAT IMPROVEMENTS CAN WE MAKE AT THESE INTERSECTIONS? SO WE'RE, WE'RE CONSTANTLY LOOKING AT THIS INFORMATION.
HOW DID THE IMPROVEMENT WE MADE WORK? I GET THAT.
WHAT CAN WE DO? SO IF IT, IF IT'S GONNA INVOLVE RECONSTRUCTION, YOU KNOW, THAT BE, IT MIGHT BE, IT MIGHT, MAY OR MAY NOT ALREADY BE IN OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR THE NEXT SIX YEARS, BUT IF SOMETHING, IF THERE'S AN INTERSECTION ON A ROADWAY THAT YOU KNOW, IS A LITTLE LATER IN OUR CIP WINDOW, IT MIGHT GET PUSHED UP AND SEE IF WE CAN GET THAT AND JUGGLE THINGS AROUND A LITTLE BIT AND TRY TO ADDRESS IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING BOB, I'LL ASK YOU AGAIN.
I ASKED SCOTT, YOU KNOW, HEADING, UH, SOUTHBOUND AND HIGHWAY M AT 60 AND GRAVE ROAD HAS THE ROUNDABOUT, HIGHWAY G HAS THE ROUNDABOUT.
HOW COME THEY DIDN'T PUT A ROUNDABOUT M BECAUSE WHEN YOU COMES, WHEN YOU HEAD THE SOUTH, YOU COME UP TO INTERSECTION, THERE'S THAT WALL THERE AND ALL SUDDEN IT'S HARD TO SEE TRAFFIC COMING.
THERE'S LIKE A SMALL HILL AND THEY'RE MOVING.
YEAH, THE, THE DOT DOES A GOOD JOB OF ANALYZING NEURAL INTERSECTION.
SO MY, MY ESTIMATION WOULD BE THEY LOOKED AT IT AND UH, DID WHAT WE DID RIGHT? AND LOOKED AT THAT AND SAID, OKAY, THESE, HOW MANY CRACKS YOU HAD, WHAT IMPROVEMENTS COULD BE MADE TO THAT? UH, I KNOW YOU'RE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE INTERSECTION.
THERE'S ALSO, UH, HOMES THAT ARE VERY CLOSE TO IT.
SO PUTTING IT A ROUNDABOUT THERE WOULD, UH, PROBABLY ELIMINATE IF SEVERAL OF THE HOMES THAT ARE IN THAT LOCATION.
SO WE'RE PROBABLY PROBABLY LOOKING AT THAT TOO, OF, UH, ALRIGHT, IF WE DO THIS, THEN WE'RE, CAUSE THIS TO HAPPEN.
UH, SEVERAL HOUSES WOULD HAVE TO GO AWAY, UH, TO MAKE A ROUNDABOUT HAPPEN AT THAT PARTICULAR LOCATION.
SO THEY'RE PROBABLY LOOKING AT THAT TOO.
BUT THEY LOOK AT ALL THIS INFORMATION AND WE CERTAINLY CAN BRING THAT UP TO THE DOT.
AGAIN, WE ARE BRINGING INTERSECTIONS UP TO THE DOT ALL THE TIME.
UH, WE JUST BROUGHT UP THE INTERSECTION OF H 1 44 TO THEM BECAUSE WE LOOKED AT THAT WITH, UH, SOME FATALITIES THAT WERE THERE RECENTLY.
AND THE DOT LOOKED AT THE DATA AGAIN, SAID, YEP, TIME FOR ROUNDABOUT THERE.
AND, AND SO IF THERE'S AN INTERSECTION THAT YOU HAVE THAT IS OF OF INTEREST, WE CERTAINLY WERE MORE THAN WELCOME.
WE DO THIS QUITE A BIT AS, AS REFER TO THE DOT AND, AND THEY, THEY DO A FINE JOB OF GETTING BACK TO US.
THEY DON'T JUST SAY, MEH, IT'S OKAY.
THEY ACTUALLY DO A GOOD JOB OF, OF REVIEWING IT.
AND WE APPRECIATE THEIR LEVEL OF EFFORT WHEN THAT HAPPENS AND OUR REQUESTS.
IF IT BECOMES AN ISSUE, AND I KNOW I HATE, I ALMOST HATE TO BRING THIS UP, BUT CAN YOU LOWER THE SPEED LIMIT JUST AT THAT INTER STATION SAYING DANGEROUS INTERSECTION AHEAD OR, I KNOW PEOPLE DON'T ALWAYS SLOW DOWN THOUGH, RIGHT? YEAH, IT, THEY TYPICALLY, YOU PUT THE ADVISORY SPEEDS, THAT'S A LITTLE YELLOW PLAQUE OR BELOW THAT, THAT CROSS RIGHT INTERSECTION HEAD.
UH, THE, THE CHALLENGE YOU HAVE IS IF PEOPLE ACTUALLY FOLLOW THAT OR NOT, RIGHT? AND ENFORCEMENT OF THAT AREA, BECAUSE SPEED LIMITS HAVE TO BE A CERTAIN LENGTH TO BE EFFECTIVE AND BY STATE STATUTE A CERTAIN LENGTH.
AND SO IF YOU'RE JUST DROPPING IT DOWN DROP, RAISING IT UP, DROPPING IT DOWN, RAISING IT UP, AND IF PEOPLE ASSUME THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING 45 WHEN THEY'RE ACTUALLY GOING 65, UH, THAT CREATES PROBLEMS TOO.
THIS ONE TO ADD ONE MORE THING.
YOUR GUYS WERE DOING THE MASS THERE FOR KELLY JACKSON.
I THINK THEY DID AN EXCELLENT JOB.
CANADIAN WERE ON HIGHWAY 60 YESTERDAY WERE, AND, UM, THOSE, THOSE FLAGS ARE VERY POLITE.
AND, AND WHAT WE'D BE LOOKING FORWARD IF, IF YOU'RE OKAY WITH THIS, AND I KNOW IT'S A LOT OF DATA, UH, BUT WE'D CERTAINLY LOVE YOUR APPROVAL OF THE, OF THE PLAN, UH, AND, AND RECOMMEND IT TO THE COUNTY BOARD AND, AND THEN IT'LL BE UP TO CHAIRMAN SCHLEI TO SEE IF HE WANTS US JUST TO INCLUDE IT IN YOUR PACKET OR DO A LITTLE PRESENTATION AGAIN FOR THE COUNTY BOARD.
IF WE DO ONE FOR THE COUNTY BOARD, IT WON'T BE AS IN DEPTH AS THIS.
WE'D GO THROUGH THE, UH, THE CATEGORIES AND STUFF AND WHAT WE'RE DOING, BUT, UH, WOULD BE MUCH SHORTER.
I THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD TO SHARE IT WITH THE WHOLE BOARD.
THERE'S A LOT OF BOARD MEMBERS THAT REPRESENT A LOT OF DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE COUNTY.
I DIDN'T STOP TO HOLD UP TRAFFIC.
I WAS THE LAST ONE RIGHT TO STOP BEFORE THE FIRE.
THE YOUNG LADY CAME TO MY WINDOW AND I JUST WAVE THERE AND SHE CAME ROLLING WINDOW.
I SAYS, YOU GUYS KEEP DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND KEEP THOSE OTHER GUYS UNDER CONTROL.
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SHE SAYS, NO PROBLEM TO DO THAT.WE CAN MAKE A MOTION TO DO THAT.
ANY THUMBS DOWN? MOTION TO ADOPT THIS.
OH, DO WE HAVE TO DO THE WHOLE MOTION AND SECOND THING IT BE, I THOUGHT JUST AN OVERVIEW MOTION.
UH, SUPERVISOR M**K SECOND BY SUPERVISOR HARTWIG.
WE'RE GOOD TO GO THEN WE'LL BE BACK AGAIN HERE IN THE NEAR FUTURE DOING THIS SAME APPROACH FOR THE, FOR THE ROADWAYS OUTSIDE OF THE INTERSECTION AREAS.
SAME APPROACH, SAME THREE WAYS THAT WE CUT IT DOWN.
UM, AND WE'LL BE BRINGING THAT TO YOU GUYS IN THEN IN THE NEAR FUTURE AS WELL.
WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THAT.
THE LAST ITEM ON OUR AGENDA IS THE 2024 RESOLUTION COUNTY HIGHWAY G SALE OF EXCESS.
I NEED A MOTION, A SECOND MOTION BY, UH, SUPERVISOR SALICK WHO SECOND IT.
SECOND BY SUPERVISOR MCCULLICK.
UH, YOU WANT TO TOUCH BASE ON THIS? I CERTAINLY GIVE A, A A, A BRIEF, UH, UH, SYNOPSIS OF THIS.
UH, THIS IS ON COUNTY HIGHWAY G, BOTH IN THE TOWN OF JACKSON AND VILLAGE OF GERMANTOWN.
WE HAD AN EXTRAORDINARILY WIDE RIGHT OF AWAY OF 400 FEET IN THIS AREA.
SO BACK IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES, THEY BOUGHT US RIGHT AWAY.
IF YOU LOOKED AT IT, IT'S BASICALLY LOW LAND, SWAMP LAND ON EITHER SIDE OF THERE.
UH, AND A NICE, UH, CALLED NAVIGABLE WATERWAY THAT'S ALONG THERE.
[b. 2024 Resolution: CTH G Sale of Excess Right of Way]
THE DOT APPROACHED ME AND IS LOOKING AT DOING A WETLAND BANK ON THE PROPERTY JUST BEYOND OUR, OUR RIDE OF WAY.AND THEY'D LIKE TO PURCHASE ABOUT ALMOST 12 ACRES OF LAND FROM US.
YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT'S, THAT'S A LOT OF RIGHT AWAY.
UH, AND, UH, WE DON'T NEED IT.
WE DON'T, WE LOOKED AT HOW FAR BACK WE WANT TO GET.
UH, WE, WE KEPT, KEPT A GOOD A HUNDRED FOOT WIDE STRETCH, SO 50 FEET ON EITHER SIDE.
UH, WE'RE REAL COMFORTABLE WITH THAT GOING INTO THE FUTURE.
UH, IT, IT IS A NICE, UH, $60,000 PAYMENT TO, TO WASHINGTON COUNTY.
UH, UH, SEVERAL OF YOU MIGHT REMEMBER A NINE 80 SIGHTING SEVERAL YEARS AGO THAT WE DID, UH, WHERE WE WERE GONNA FILL IN A WETLAND.
UM, THIS LOCATION DOESN'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF NEIGHBORS, AS WE MENTIONED KIND OF EARLIER WITH ANOTHER SUBJECT.
SO THIS COULD BE ONE OF THOSE AREAS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
AND WE WOULD CERTAINLY LIKE TO, AGAIN, IT, WE'D LIKE TO GET THE STUFF BACK IN A TAX ROLL, BUT THAT'S NOT THE OPPORTUNITY HERE.
BUT WE ARE GETTING A, A GOOD LITTLE CHECK FROM THE DOT ON THIS, THIS PROCESS.
SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOUR APPROVAL OF THIS.
SO WE CAN SELL IN A DOT AND THEY CAN CREATE THAT WETLAND BANK.
AND, UM, NOT IF WORRY ABOUT THE OTHER ISSUE.
DOES THIS MONEY STAY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS? YES, IT DOES.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS? NO.
ANY OPPOSED? SEE? NO OPPOSED? UH, IT PASSES.
AND THE NEXT, UH, NEXT MEETING IS, UH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15TH AT 3:00 PM THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.