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• Continue focus on transportation safety. › Examine existing development process
Implement traffic calming where necessary to to ensure that road infrastructure being
reduce speeds and ensure safety for all users. developed is appropriate for the scale
› Identify locations where hills and curves of growth. Review required Traffic
make it difficult for drivers to see potential Impact Analyses conducted for new land
conflicts. Upon identification, pursue development to ensure the analyses are
modifications to roadway, speed limits, consistent with the growth projections and
increased signage, or other safety measures. land use patterns in the Comprehensive
Plan.
› Ensure all roadways have adequate
› Develop new roads based on the county-
shoulders where feasible, to decrease
wide road design standards. Recognize that
potential conflicts between vehicles
new roads, while providing mobility, also
and non-motorized vehicles and farm
increase accessibility to rural areas and may
equipment.
contribute to development pressures.
› Develop a Local Road Safety Plan to evaluate
how to improve safety of roads for all users. › Examine potential for impact fees (see
The Local Road Safety Plan should include growth capacity section for more details
recommendations for safety improvements concerning impact fees).
as well as identify potential funding sources. • Pro-actively plan for freight mobility through
› Pursue updating the 2009 U.S. Highway multiple public and private partnerships working
24 Corridor Access Management Plan. As collaboratively toward an efficient and safe
the plan approaches the 10-year mark, multi-modal system.
re-activate the plan’s committees to › Working with Union Pacific Railroad,
begin discussions on how best to update identify railroad crossings that need safety
the plan. An evaluation of what has been improvements, including those associated
accomplished in the plan and what remains with industrial facilities for worker and
to be implemented should be conducted. visitor safety. At-grade crossings within the
For priority implementation improvements County should be a top priority, especially
that have not yet been achieved the those crossings that do not have safety arms
obstacles should be identified – for example and/or warning lights and those that have
have the underlying conditions changed had previous safety incidents or accidents.
since completion of the plan, or is funding
the primary obstacle? › Conduct transportation modeling (in
coordination with FHMPO), to examine
• Build partnerships with developers to coordinate the potential impacts of increased freight
land use and transportation investment and volumes, gain a better understanding of
promote shared, equitable contributions to the potential modal split (among rail and
implementing the transportation system. This truck), and assess the ability of the existing
partnership will be particularly important in and future transportation system to support
preserving corridors for and identifying likely the modeled freight volumes and flows.
alignments for a connector system of collector The modeling effort should also consider
roadways to join compatible land uses. the potential share of freight that will be
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