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Home My WebLink AboutLITTLE CAESARS PUD FINAL - 28 92A - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - TRAFFIC STUDYco o MEMORANDUM c O 0 o To: Tony Fonte, Little Caesars r Al Hauser, Architecture One o10 Eric Bracke, Fort Collins Transportation Division o " From: Matt Delich z g w Date: August 31, 1992 O Subject: Amendment to Little Caesars Pizza Site Access Study j (File: 9226MEM2) z W a Due to circumstances regarding the dedication of right- of-way by the property owner to the west of the proposed a Little Caesars Pizza, Mitchell Drive cannot be built in the m short range future as indicated on previous site plans and as analyzed in the site access study. Therefore, a temporary M access scheme has been proposed sharing the existing driveway to the bank/office building to the east of the proposed Little Caesars Pizza. Access will also be available to JFK Parkway through the parking lot that currently exists to the south of the bank/office building. Currently, the bank/office building has full -turn access to Horsetooth Road at their driveway and alternative full -turn access to Horsetooth Road via JFK Parkway. The Horsetooth/JFK Parkway intersection is signalized. Current peak hour traffic counts (April 1992) at the Horsetooth/Square and Horsetooth/bank-office driveway are shown in Figure 1. Operation at these stop sign controlled z intersections is shown in Table 1. Calculation forms are provided in Appendix A. Left turns out of the Square and the W Z bank/office driveways are at level of service D during the CD noon peak hour and at level of service E during the afternoon LLi z W peak hour, based upon the unsignalized intersection analysis technique from the 1985 Highway Capacity Manual. Recent research (cited in the Little Caesars Pizza Site Access Study) = Z indicates that this technique overstates the level of service. c2 O Based upon this research, the actual level of service is more F appropriately defined at C/D and D. This is also indicated W o in Table 1. o a . a Another consideration pertaining to the operation of this °C stop sign controlled intersection is the geometry of the • center lane on Horsetooth Road. This center lane is 21 feet 3 wide. During traffic counts, it was observed that exiting W = a left turns from both the Square and the bank/office driveway F— cc utilize this lane as a refuge area in order to execute the Q desired left turn. Considering this, the level of service rE could be divided into two parts, the first considering traffic approaching from the right and the second considering traffic APPENDIX B 1985 HCM: UNSIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS Page-1 :Y.K<Y.YVY#:tY:KVKKK.KYX<YYY:KY.t<KY#VYYf:Y#!'YY.K�'.�:K�:�YX #[Y#K#X##X�K##Y#"K .K i):C#Y IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ------- ------------------------------------------------------------ AVERAGE RUNNING SPEED, MAJOR STREET.. 35 PEAK HOUR FACTOR ..................... 1 AREA POPULATION ...................... 100000 NAME OF THE EAST/WEST STREET......... horsetooth NAME OF THE NORTH/SOUTH STREET....... square NAME OF THE ANALYST .................. mid DATE OF THE ANALYSIS (mm/dd/yy)...... 8/28/92 TIME PERIOD ANALYZED ................. noon pm 1992 short OTHER INFORMATION.... INTERSECTION TYPE AND CONTROL --- -------------- -- ---- ---- -------- --- --------- -- ---- ---------- INTERSECTION TYPE: T-INTERSECTION MAJOR STREET DIRECTION: EAST/WEST CONTROL TYPE SOUTHBOUND: STOP SIGN TRAFFIC VOLUMES --------------- EB WE, LEFT --45 ---0 THRU 660 703 RIGHT 0 11 NUMBER OF LANES --------------- LANES NE SE, -- 0 -- 36 ---------------------------------- EB WB NE. SE• ____ _______ _______ ------- CAPACITY AND LEVEL -OF -SERVICE Page-3 --------------------------- --------------------------------------- POTEN- ACTUAL FLOW- TIAL MOVEMENT SHARED RESERVE RATE CAPACITY CAPACITY CAPACITY CAPACITY MOVEMENT v(pcph) c p M SH R SH (pcph) c (pcph) c (pcph) c = c - v LOS ------------------------------------------------ --- MINOR STREET o3-23,) C'' SB LEFT 10 111 104 104 94 E - RIGHT 40 707 707 707 667 A MAJOR STREET EB LEFT 50 468 468 468 418 A IDENTIFYING INFORMATION --------------------------------------------------------------------- NAME OF THE EAST/WEST STREET...... horsetooth NAME OF THE NORTH/SOUTH STREET.... square DATE AND TIME OF THE ANALYSIS..... 8/28/92 noon pm 1992 short OTHER INFORMATION.... 1985 HCM: UNSIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS Page-1 Ff.#FYFFYJKYFFiY#FYFFF#FYFFYFFYYY#KFFF'KF#Y'Y.CFFIRt](YFFFFY.tFYYF#YYFF.F F##A IDENTIFYING INFORMATION AVERAGE RUNNING SPEED. MAJOR STREET.. 35 PEAK HOUR FACTOR ..................... 1 AREA POPULATION ...................... 100000 NAME OF THE EAST/WEST STREET......... horsetooth NAME OF THE NORTH/SOUTH STREET....... square NAME OF THE ANALYST .................. mJd DATE OF THE ANALYSIS (mm/dd/yy)...... 8/28/92 TIME PERIOD ANALYZED ................. noon pm 1992 GD OTHER INFORMATION.... INTERSECTION TYPE AND CONTROL --------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERSECTION TYPE: T-INTERSECTION MAJOR STREET DIREC71ON: EAST/WEST CONTROL TYPE SOUTHBOUND: STOP SIGN TRAFFIC VOLUMES EB WB NB SE; ---- ---- ---- ---- LEFT 31 0 -- 9 THRU 801 1128 -- 0 RIGHT 0 31 -- 47 NUMBER OF LANES ------------------------------------------ ----------------------- EB WE, NE; SO ------- ------- ------- LANES -- ------- 2 CAPACITY AND LEVEL -OF -SERVICE Page-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------- POTEN- ACTUAL FLOW- TIAL MOVEMENT SHARED RESERVE RATE CAPACITY CAPACITY CAPACITY CAPACITY MOVEMENT v(pcph) c (pcph) c (pcph) c (pcph) c = c - v LOS p M SH R SH ------- -------- - ------- ------------ ------------- --- MINOR STREET 17-Z/ " C SB LEFT 10 83 76 76 66 E RIGHT 52 540 540 540 468 A MAJOR STREET EB LEFT 34 260 260 260 226 C IDENTIFYING INFORMATION -- ------------------- --------------------------- NAME OF THE EAST/WEST STREET...... horsetooth NAME OF THE NORTH/SOUTH STREET.... square DATE AND TIME OF THE ANALYSIS..... 8/28/92 ; noon a992 short OTHER INFORMATION.... 1985 HCM: UNSIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS Page-1 :e rex��>z�:Kxxr.r sxxxxa:r.r.r:r.xWxrx��:rxsx><zx�<��<xxv:>»:x zxrxxtxcrx x.�xxr. vwr r:x> IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ------------------------------------------ AVERAGE RUNNING SPEED, MAJOR STREET.. 35 PEAK HOUR FACTOR ..................... i AREA. POPULATION ...................... 100000 NAME OF THE EAST/WEST STREET......... hor•srtooth NAME OF THE NORTH/SOUTH STREET....... bank/office NAME OF THE ANALYST_ ............... mid DATE OF THE ANALYSIS (mm/dd/yy)...... 8/28/92 TIME PERIOD ANALYZED ................ Gn pm 1992 short OTHER INFORMATION.... INTERSECTION TYPE AND CONTROL INTERSECTION TYPE: T-INTERSECTION MAJOR STREET DIRECTION: EAST/WEST CONTROL TYPE NORTHBOUND: STOP SIGN TRAFFIC VOLUMES ----------------- ------- — EB WB NB SF ---- ---- ---- ---- LEFT 0 12 52 -- THRU 633 662 0 -- RIGHT 36 0 10 -- NUMBER OF LANES ------------------------------------------------------------ EB WB N6 SE, -------------- ------- ------- LANES 2 _ -- 0 CAPACITY AND LEVEL -OF -SERVICE Page-3 — ----- --- ------------------------------------ POTEN- ACTUAL FLOW- TIAL MOVEMENT SHARED RESERVE RATE CAPACITY CAPACITY CAPACITY CAPACITY MOVEMENT v(pcph) c p M SH R SH (pcph) c (pcph) c (pcoh) c = c - v LOS ------ ------- ----------- --- MINOR STREET NB LEFT 57 128 126 126 68 E RIGHT 11 727 727 727 - 716 A MAJOR STREET WB LEFT 13 496 496 496 483 A IDENTIFYING INFORMATION --------------------------------------------------------------------- NAME OF THE EAST/WEST STREET...... horsrtooth NAME OF THE NORTH/SOUTH STREET.... bank/offi DATE AND TIME OF THE ANALYSIS..... 8/28192 ; c noon pm 1992 'hort OTHER INFORMATION.... 1985 HCM: UNSIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS Page-1 IDENTIFYING INFORMATION - --------- --------------- ----------------------------- ------------ AVERAGE RUNNING SPEED, MAJOR STREET.. 35 PEAK HOUR FACTOR ..................... i AREA POPULATION ...................... 100000 NAME OF THE EAST/WEST STREET......... horsrtooth NAME OF THE NORTH/SOUTH STREET....... bank/office NAME OF THE ANALYST .................. mjd DATE OF THE ANALYSIS (mm/dd/yy)...... 8/28/92 TIME PERIOD ANALYZED ................. noon pm 1992 short OTHER INFORMATION.... INTERSECTION TYPE AND CONTROL --------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERSECTION TYPE: T-INTERSECTION MAJOR STREET DIRECTION: EAST/WEST CONTROL TYPE NORTHBOUND: STOP SIGN TRAFFIC VOLUMES ----- ------------------------ ----------------------------------- ES WB Ng SB ---- ---- ---- ---- LEFT 0 18 65 -- THRU 757 1094 0 - - FIGHT 53 0 18 -- NUMBER OF LANES _____________________________________________________________________ EB WB NB SE.. ------ ------- ------- ----- LANES 2 _ 2 -- CAPACITY AND LEVEL -OF -SERVICE Page-3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- POTEN- ACTUAL FLOW- TIAL MOVEMENT SHARED RESERVE RATE CAPACITY CAPACITY CAPACITY CAPACITY MOVEMENT v(pcph) c (pcph) c (pcph) c (pcph) C= C t V LOS p M SH R SH _______ _____________________________------------ --- MINOR STREET LZ5-3S, 1 NB LEFT 72 83 81 81 9 E RIGHT 20 664 664 664 645 A MAJOR STREET WB LEFT 20 408 408 408 383 8 IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------------ NAME OF THE EAST/WEST STREET...... horsrtooth NAME OF THE NORTH/SOUTH STREET.... bank/office DATE AND TIME OF THE ANALYSIS..... 8/28/92 ; noon 1992 short OTHER INFORMATION.... approaching from the left. When considering this two step maneuver, the noon peak level of service is B/B and the afternoon peak level of service is C/D. With the limitation on access caused by the elimination of Mitchell Drive, Little Caesars traffic was assigned to the bank/office driveway as shown in Figure 2. This assignment indicates a worst case situation, since no traffic is assigned through the bank/office parking lot to JFK Parkway. The operation at the two key stop sign controlled intersections is shown in Table 2. Calculation forms are provided in Appendix B. Also shown in Table 2 is the peak hour operation when considering the research cited earlier. While the level of service will deteriorate due to the increase in background traffic on Horsetooth Road and the additional traffic generated by the proposed Little Caesars Pizza, the operation will not be significantly different from that which occurs today. If delays become unacceptable for the left -turns exits from the bank/office driveway, a logical motorist will seek an alternative which serves the same desire in less time. This route currently exists through the bank/office parking lot to JFK Parkway. Currently, the Horsetooth/JFK Parkway signalized intersection operates acceptably with much excess capacity. The additional traffic that might be added to this intersection due to the Little Caesars Pizza and the diversion of bank/office traffic will not significantly impact this intersection. It is recommended that the proposed temporary access scheme be implemented. When right-of-way is available to build Mitchell Drive, traffic should be redistributed as indicated in the Little Caesar Pizza Site Access Study. THE SQUARE 9/28 45/31 633/763 NOON / PM HORSETOOTH ROAD 627/750 —� 13/19 —� + 655/1083 ,r— 2/0 r C4 N BANK / OFFICE N 1992 PEAK HOUR TRAFFIC Figure 1 THE SQUARE 1 N -11/31 HORSETOOTH --662/1094 703 1128 ROAD fit— 12/18 633/757 45 31 —1 36/53 :�J) 660/801%n co o BANK / OFFICE NOON / PM PEAK HOUR TRAFFIC WITH LITTLE CAESARS PIZZA Figure 2 Table 1 1992 Peak Hour Operation Intersection Horsetooth/Square SB LT SB RT EB LT Horsetooth/bank-office NB LT NB RT WB LT Level of Service Noon PM D (C/D) E (C/D) A A A C D (C/D) E (D) A A A A ( ) Level of service based upon delay criteria. Table 2 Peak Hour Operation With Little Caesars Pizza Level of Service Intersection Noon PM Horsetooth/Square SB LT E (C/D) E (C/D) SB RT A A EB LT A C Horsetooth/bank-office NB LT E (C/D) E (D) NB RT A A WB LT A B ( ) Level of service based upon delay criteria. APPENDIX A 1985 HCM: UNSIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS Page-1 T FYXYXXXfiCXYYCX:tCYYYCCX CX CYYCXX%XZCYCiXCXCYYCXXXCCXYYXZCCCYYYY.0 KX'C XY• IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------------ AVERAGE RUNNING SPEED, MAJOR STREET.. 35 PEAK HOUR FACTOR ..................... 1 AREA POPULATION ...................... 100000 NAME OF THE EAST/WEST STREET......... horsetooth NAME OF THE NORTH/SOUTH STREET....... square NAME OF THE ANALYST .................. mid DATE OF THE ANALYSIS (mm/dd/yy)...... 8/28/92 TIME PERIOD ANALYZED ................. noon pm 1992 -port OTHER INFORMATION.... INTERSECTION TYPE AND CONTROL ---------------------------------------------------------------- INTERSECTION TYPE: T-INTERSECTION MAJOR STREET DIRECTION: EAST/WEST CONTROL TYPE SOUTHBOUNO: STOP SIGN TRAFFIC VOLUMES --------------------------------------------------------------------- EB WB NE; SS ---- ---- ---- ---- LEFT 45 0 -- THRU 633 673 -- 0 RIGHT 0 9 -- 36 NUMBER OF LANES --------------------------------------------------------------------- ES WE NS Sc --------------------- LANES 2 2 -- ----- 2 CAPACITY AND LEVEL -OF -SERVICE Page-3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- POTEN- ACTUAL FLOW- TIAL MOVEMENT SHARED RESERVE RATE CAPACITY CAPACITY CAPACITY CAPACITY MOVEMENT v(pcph) c (pcph) c (pcph) c (pcph) c = c - v LOS p M SH R SH ------------------------ ------------------------ --- MINOR STREET C,I-$1-) C'/p SB LEFT 8 122 114 114 l� 107 D RIGHT 40 721 721 721 682 A MAJOR STREET E8 LEFT 50 488 488 488 438 A IDENTIFYING INFORMATION NAME OF THE EAST/WEST STREET...... horsetooth NAME OF THE NORTH/SOUTH STREET.... square DATE AND TIME OF THE ANALYSIS..... 6/28/92 nocn pm 1992 short OTHER INFORMATION.... 1985 HCM: UNSIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS Pace-1 YY..W.KX.KYV:k:k KYYkYRYYYt<kY.KYY Y.RYFYYYK Y:YXkLKRRYYKKY Y:'✓.<Y:Y YKY*tKX'.M.Y.Y Y. )K K<V:<A. ' IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ------------------------------- AVERAGE RUNNING SPEED, MAJOR STREET.. 35 PEAK HOUR FACTOR ...................... 1 AREA POPULATION ...................... 100000 NAME OF THE EAST/WEST STREET......... horsetooth NAME OF THE NORTH/SOUTH STREET....... square I NAME OF THE ANALYST .................. mid DATE OF THE ANALYSIS (mm/dd/yy)...... 8/28/92 i TIME PERIOD ANALYZED ................. noon pm 1992 short OTHER INFORMATION.... - INTERSECTION TYPE AND CONTROL --------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERSECTION TYPE: T-INTERSECTION MAJOR STREET DIRECTION: EAST/WEST CONTROL TYPE SOUTHBOUND: STOP SIGN TRAFFIC VOLUMES EB WB NB SB • ---- ---- ---- --- LEFT 31 0 -- 6 THRU 763 1033 -- 0 RIGHT 0 28 -- 47 NUMBER OF LANES --------------------------------------------------------------------- ES WB NB SB -------------- ------- ------- LANES 2 2 -- 2 a CAPACITY AND --------------------------------------------------------------------- LEVEL -OF -SERVICE Page-3 POTEN- ACTUAL FLOW- TIAL MOVEMENT SHARED RESERVE RATE CAPACITY CAPACITY CAPACITY CAPACITY MOVEMENT v(pcph) c (pcph) c (pcph) r_ (pcph) c = c - v LOS p M ------------ SH R SH ------------ --- ------- -------- --------- 0, -2() C MINOR STREET SB LEFT 7 83 77 77 70 E RIGHT 52 557 557 557 505 A MAJOR STREET EB LEFT 34 277 277 277 243 C IDENTIFYING INFORMATION NAME OF THE EAST/WEST STREET...... horsetooth NAME OF THE NORTH/SOUTH STREET.... square DATE AND TIME OF THE ANALYSIS..... 6/28/92 ; noon a 1.992 hort OTHER INFORMATION.... 1985 HCM: UNSIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS Page-1 1XZZZZXX\'ZZZZZXZZZZXZZZZZZZXXZZZXZXXXZYZZXZZYZZXXZZt X.ZZ>. Y't ZXXXMZZXKZX IDENTIFYING INFORMATION -- --------------- ---------------- AVERAGE RUNNING SPEED, MAJOR STREET.. 35 PEAK HOUR FACTOR ..................... 1 AREA POPULATION ...................... 100000 NAME OF THE EAST/WEST STREET......... horsrtooth NAME OF THE NORTH/SOUTH STREET...... bank/office NAME OF THE ANALYST .................. mid DATE OF THE ANALYSIS (mm/dd/yy)...... 8/28/92 TIME PERIOD ANALYZED ................ noon pm 0 short OTHER INFORMATION.... 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INTERSECTION TYPE AND CONTROL --------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERSECTION TYPE: T-INTERSECTION MAJOR STREET DIRECTION: EAST/WEST CONTROL TYPE NORTHBOUND: STOP SIGN TRAFFIC VOLUMES --------------- E8 WB NE, S5 ---- ---- ---- ---- LEFT 0 0 28 -- THRU 750 1083 0 -- RIGHT 19 0 4 -- NUMBER OF LANES --------------------------------------------------------------------- EP, WB NE, S ------- -------------- ------- LANES z 2 CAPACITY AND LEVEL -OF -SERVICE Page-3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- POTEN- ACTUAL FLOW- TIAL MOVEMENT SHARED RESERVE RATE CAPACITY CAPACITY CAPACITY CAPACITY MOVEMENT v(pcph) c (pcph) c (pcph) c (pcph) c = c - v LOS p M SH R SH i --- MINOR STREET CIq�28 ' NB LEFT 31 83 83 83 52 E RIGHT 4 682 682 682 678 A MAJOR STREET i WB LEFT 0 433 433 433 433 A IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------ ------- NAME OF THE EAST/WEST STREET...... horsrtooth NAME OF THE NORTH/SOUTH STREET.... bank/office DATE AND TIME OF THE ANALYSIS..... 8/28/92 ; noon(pm 19?% short OTHER INFORMATION....