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Bucking Horse TIS Amendment for Filing One, August 2012
Manual and a table showing the Fort Collins Motor Vehicle LOS Standards
(Intersections) are provided in Appendix A. The Bucking Horse site is in an area termed
"mixed use districts." In areas termed "mixed use districts," acceptable operation at
signalized intersections during the peak hours is defined as level of service E or better.
At unsignalized intersections, acceptable operation is considered to be at level of
service F for any approach leg for an arterial/local intersection. In such areas, it is
expected that there would be substantial delays to the minor street movements at
unsignalized intersections during the peak hours. This is considered to be normal and
acceptable in urban areas.
Using the traffic volumes shown in Figure 3, the key intersections operate in the
short range (2017) background traffic future as indicated in Table 2. Calculation forms for
these analyses are provided in Appendix A. It is important to note that the City of Fort
Collins will be installing southbound dual left -turn lanes at the Timberline/Drake
intersection prior to the year 2017. The current signal timing in the morning and afternoon
peak hours remained at a 110 and 120 second cycle, respectively. However, some of the
timing on various phases had to be adjusted at the various intersections to achieve
acceptable level of service. The key intersections will operate acceptably during the
morning and afternoon peak hours.
Table 3 shows the short range (2017) total morning and afternoon peak hour
operation at the key intersections. Calculation forms for these analyses are provided in
Appendix B. The key intersections will operate acceptably, except for the Timberline/
Prospect intersection. At the Timberline/Prospect intersection, a southbound right -turn lane
will need to be constructed in order to achieve acceptable operation. In addition to this
geometric improvement, right -turn arrows will need to be added so various right -turning
movements can get a green arrow when there are no conflicts (free right -turn -on -red).
The Bucking Horse, Filing One contributes no traffic to the southbound right -turn at the
Timberline/Prospect intersection. This geometric improvement will likely be a capital
improvement project of the City of Fort Collins in the future.
With the development of Bucking Horse, Filing One, it is concluded that the key
intersections will operate acceptably with recommended geometry and control. No
additional improvements, beyond those implemented by the City, will be required.
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MEMORANDUM
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Gino Campana, Bellisimo, Inc.'
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Ward Stanford, City of Fort Collins,:v;
FROM:
Matt Delich4`-
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DATE:
August.24,_2012
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SUBJECT:
Bucking Horse TIS Amendment —Analysis of -Filing One?
(File: 1214ME03)
This memorandum provides operational analyses of the key intersections due to
the intended phasing of the Bucking Horse Project. The scope of this exercise was
discussed with Ward Stanford, Fort Collins Traffic Operations. This memorandum
analyzes the impacts of the Bucking Horse, Filing One portion of the development. This
memorandum is an amendment to the "Bucking Horse Transportation Impact Study,"
(TIS) March 2012.
The current site plan for Bucking Horse, Filing One is shown in Figure 1.
Bucking Horse, Filing One is proposed to have six phases. Trip Generation, 81h Edition,
ITE was used to estimate the daily and peak hour trip generation for Bucking Horse,
Filing One. From this reference, the equations for the various land uses were used to
estimate the daily and peak hour trip generation for each phase of Filing One, as shown
in Table 1. The trip generation resulted in 3118 daily trip ends, 282 morning peak hour
trip ends, and 354 afternoon peak hour trip ends. The trip distribution used in the cited
TIS was also used for Bucking Horse, Filing One. Figure 2 shows the Filing One site
generated peak hour traffic.
Background traffic projections for the short range (2017) future horizon were
obtained from the cited TIS and are shown in Figure 3. The traffic volumes generated
by the proposed Bucking Horse, Filing One were added to the background traffic
volumes to produce the total traffic volume forecasts for the short range (2017) future.
Figure 4 shows the short range (2017) total peak hour traffic at the key intersections.
Operation analyses were performed at the Timberline/Drake, Timberline/Prospect,
Timberline/Nancy Gray, Timberline/Charles Brockman-Katadin, Timberline/Sandbar,
and Timberline/Blackbird intersections. The operations analyses were conducted for the
short range future, reflecting a year 2017 condition. The intersections were evaluated
using techniques provided in the 2000 Highway Capacity Manual. A description of level
of service for signalized and unsignalized intersections from the 2000 Highway Capacity