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• Provide shuttle buses to/from the overflow lot to prevent attendees from walking across TH 169. Assuming a round trip of ten minutes and the ability to accommodate 50 people, twenty buses or more may be necessary to accommodate the peak periods for events with attendance of 15,000 people. • Provide a shuttle loading/unloading areas along 217th Avenue and on the west side of the overflow lot that do not block the passenger car vehicle paths. See Figure 6 in Appendix A for the graphical display of this traffic control. 6. Additional Considerations The event day operations of the ERX facility should be reviewed in-depth after the first Medium Event and the first Large Event. By reviewing the operations, necessary upgrades or changes in the attendance -level divisions and/or the various elements of the traffic control can be made to further improve safety and efficiency. The ERX development should continue to coordinate with MnDOT and the City of Elk River on the proposed traffic control. This should include direct meetings to discuss the traffic control before and after at least the first Medium and first Large Events. A 2008 study identified potential upgrades to TH 169 in this area. Some specific upgrades included removal of direct access intersections and construction of an interchange at the existing 221St Avenue intersection. A frontage road system would then connect to areas that lose direct access. However, these plans have no funding and no schedule for completion. The ERX development should continue to monitor progress toward the upgrading of TH 169. At that time, the traffic control plans will need to be re-evaluated and revised to reflect the new roadway system. 7. Conclusions and Recommendations The operations and routing for ERX and their expected day-to-day and higher event attendance was analyzed to assure proper and efficient flow of vehicles off of TH 169 and into the ERX site. There is no expected traffic impact in the surrounding roadway network during standard day-to-day operations of the ERX site. For this reason, no traffic mitigation is needed for normal daily use due to the expansion of the current facilities. Events at the site will fall into one of three categories; Minor Events (attendance under 2,500 spectators), Medium Event (2,500 to 6,000 attendees), and Large Events (6,000 to 19,999 attendees). In terms of traffic, the goal for any event is to safely and efficiently move spectators, racers, vendors, and volunteers between the parking areas and the site activities in addition to safe movements to/from TH 169. Traffic Management Plan 12 Elk River Extreme Motor Park