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August 20, 2003
Planning and Environmental Commission
Town of Vail
1309 Elkhorn Drive
Vail, CO 81657
JAM
Re: Vail Resorts' Front Door Redevelopment
KHA Job #: 067867001
Dear PEC Member:
This letter has been prepared to provide the results of an updated
Traffic Impact Study required as a result of the Planning and
Environmental Commission Public Meeting held on Monday, July 28,
2003. This letter serves as an updated Traffic Impact Study for the
previous traffic impact study for the Vail Resorts' Front Door
Redevelopment project. A summary of the analysis has been
completed by Kinley -Horn to address the comments received from
the Planning and Environmental Commission to include level of
service analysis of the intersection of Meadow Drive with Vail Road
with the addition of peak hour site generated traffic from the
proposed Front Door redevelopment project.
Peak season, peak hour directional counts were obtained at the study
intersection of Meadow Drive with Vail Road from the Town of Vail
for the President's Day Holiday weekend in 2000 (count sheets
attached). These counts were conducted on several days during the
AM and PM peak hours. The highest traffic volume day was found to
be Monday, February 21, 2000, and was therefore used in this analysis
to provide a conservative evaluation. From these directional counts,
peak hour turning movement counts were projected at the
intersection based on the existing street network and traffic flow
patterns in the site vicinity. These volumes are shown in Figure 1,
attached.
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To obtain background traffic for the subject intersection, project traffic
from the future Vail Plaza Hotel traffic impact study completed by
Felsburg Holt & Ullevig in September 1999 was added to the existing
turning movement counts. These background traffic volumes are
shown in Figure 2. Based upon the trip generation calculations
included in the traffic impact study for the Front Door
Redevelopment, the proposed project is expected to generate a total of
69 entering and 28 exiting, as well as 10 entering and 89 exiting
automobile and delivery vehicle trips during the AM and PM peak
hours, respectively. Peak season site generated traffic is shown in
Figure 3. This traffic was then added to the background traffic
volumes shown in Figure 2 to obtain total background plus peak hour
site generated traffic volumes as shown in Figure 4.
Level --of- service (LOS) analysis was conducted for the Meadow
Drive /Vail Road intersection as requested from the Planning and
Environmental Commission comments. The intersection was
analyzed based on methodology for unsignalized intersections
presented in the Transportation Research Board's 2000 "Highway
Capacity Manual" (Special Report 209). Level of service for
unsignalized intersections is defined in terms of total delay. Table 1
shows the definition of level of service for unsignalized intersections.
Table 1- Level of Service Definitions
Level of Service
Unsignalized Intersection
Average Total Delay (sec /veh)
A
<_10
B
>10andS15
C
>15 and <_ 25
D
>25 and <_ 35
E
>35 and <- 50
F
>50
Definitions provided from the Highway Capacity ManuaL Special Report 209, Transportation
Research Board, 2000.
The following table summarizes the level of service results for the
existing, background (existing plus Vail Plaza Hotel), and total
background plus project conditions for the intersection during both
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peak hours of the peak day of the peak holiday season. Results from
the level of service analysis determined that this intersection is
expected to continue to operate acceptably with or without project
traffic in the future. No modifications to the intersection regarding
lane configuration or all way stop control were found to be required.
Results of the level of service analysis for this intersection are shown
in Table 2 (analysis worksheets are attached).
Table 2 -Vail Road/Meadow Drive LOS Results
It is important to recognize that the traffic counts used in this analysis
represent the peak hour of the peak season. During typical conditions
throughout the year far less traffic passes through this intersection
than is reflected in this analysis. In addition, Meadow Drive is a
pedestrianized road and as such the Meadow Drive /Vail Road
intersection experiences a significant amount of pedestrian traffic. It
should be noted that industry standards for determining the level of
service of an all -way stop controlled intersection does not account for
how pedestrian traffic may affect the performance of an
intersection. While it is expected that pedestrian traffic does affect the
performance of this intersection, the relative affect of the pedestrian
(in terms of traffic delay) would be the same on existing conditions as
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AM Peak
Hour
PM Peak Hour
Delay
LOS
Delay
LCG
sec v eh
sec /veh
Existing
11.33
B
10.77
B
Eastbound Approach
11.00
B
11.07
B
Westbound Approach
8.80
A
8.76
A
Northbound Approach
9.73
A
10.31
B
Southbound Approach
12.26
B
10.94
B
Existing with Vail
Plaza Hotel
11.44
B
10.86
B
Eastbound Approach
11.06
B
11.13
B
Westbound Approach
8.83
A
8.79
A
Northbound Approach
9.82
A
10.41
B
Southbound A oath
12.43
B
11.07
B
Proposed with
Project
13.20
B
11.93
B
Eastbound Approach
11.67
B
11.75
B
Westbound Approach
9.17
A
9.14
A
Northbound Approach
10.1
B
12.26
B
Southbound A pproach
15.18
C
11.81
B
It is important to recognize that the traffic counts used in this analysis
represent the peak hour of the peak season. During typical conditions
throughout the year far less traffic passes through this intersection
than is reflected in this analysis. In addition, Meadow Drive is a
pedestrianized road and as such the Meadow Drive /Vail Road
intersection experiences a significant amount of pedestrian traffic. It
should be noted that industry standards for determining the level of
service of an all -way stop controlled intersection does not account for
how pedestrian traffic may affect the performance of an
intersection. While it is expected that pedestrian traffic does affect the
performance of this intersection, the relative affect of the pedestrian
(in terms of traffic delay) would be the same on existing conditions as
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it would be on total traffic (adding traffic from the Front Door). The
end result is that the addition of Front Door traffic has minimal
impact on the performance of this intersection.
Hopefully this letter provides the requested information to obtain
approval for the project. If you have any questions relating to this
response letter or traffic study project analysis, please call me at (303)
228 -2304.
Sincerely,
KIMLEY -HORN AND ASSOCIATES, INC.
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