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MEMORANDUM BRW Thresher Square 700 Third Street South Minneapolis, MN $$415 Phone: (612) 370-0070 Fax: (612) 370-1378 To: From: Date: Subject: NCDA Copy: Dan Meyers, BRW Anthony Heppelmann, BRW September 23, 1998 Highway Alternatives within the Northstar Corridor File: 39935-001-0601 Agenda Item ~/a. As part of the Northstar Corridor Major Investment Study (MIS), a number of highway-related improvements along TH 10 were identified. These highway improvements would be part of the Commuter Rail study that is now being completed. The highway-related improvement evaluation was completed along the TH 10 corridor from the west side of the City of Anoka near the intemhange of TH 10 and TH 47 to the City of Rice. The corridor was divided into two general types of areas: current issue areas and current rural areas. The current issue areas were generally more developed areas along the corridor with significant traffic control. The issue areas are shown in Figure 1. Transportation related forces and issues were identified for the current issue areas, which will be presented at the NCDA meeting. In general, the issues in the urban areas deal with mobility, access, and safety. Issues within the current rural areas deal primarily with farm machinery traveling along TH 10, existing and future access to TH 10, and potential future land development. In order to address these issues, a toolbox of potential highway improvement strategies was developed and is shown in Table 1. For each current issue area, the toolbox of strategies will be evaluated to determine which strategies are applicable to that area. Within the toolbox of strategies are two improvements that are at the high end of the cost range of options to be considered. They are the construction of bypasses around cities in the TH 10 corridor and the upgrading of TH 10 into a fully controlled access highway. An initial screening of the highway alternatives will be completed at the NCDA meeting for each current issue area using the matrix shown in Table 2. The project team have identified some potential bypass alternatives for some of the current issue areas. These are not proposals and are shown in Figure 2 through Figure 6. While it is necessary at this point in the MIS to examine all potential solutions, it is expected that the potential bypass areas will be screened out. Additional information on the bypass alternatives will be presented at the NCDA meeting.