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. , t 2 I'd like to present the report - assuming you have had time to refer to it and review it, rather than go through it in detail - to concentrate on those areas of concern.- traffic and roadway treatment and costs which are also a concern. At the end we'd be happy to answer any questions. We looked primarily at the ,roadway at County Road E from Trunk Highway 51 interchange to Lexington and found it's working well. There have not been a large n1lIliberof accidents. Twenty-eight accidents in 1979 which may seem like a high number, but in proportion to the volume, it's low..' Sixteen occurred at the west end near Highway 51 interchange, seven at Lexington, which means only five accidents in between which means the road is operating well now" In getting this information from the county, we also talked to the people in Traffic Operations and they have received few complaints about the operation of the roadway ~ We also obtained some volume information and found out the present traffic volume in April of 1980 is 14,000 vehicles per day, almost three times the volume of 1962 so it carries a high volume, and looking at the delays and general operations (inaudible) of the accidents, it operates well so our task is not to solve an operating problem,. but to make sure we don't.make one.' We looked at some off ramp of Highway 51 Pinetree Drive carries direction, or close to cross streets and found the northbound carries 3000 vehicles a day and 1700 vehicles a day in the northbound (inaudible) cars a day total. We read some of the reports and found' out some of the Committee's concerns, and they are basically speed, pedestrians, vehicles (inaudible), aesthetics and expansion of the roadway, and signs and poles, etc. The speed limit is set by the Transportation Department. 'The city has no control over speed. All we can do is ask the county to ask the state to revaluate the speed limits. We have found the speed is close to posted speed limits and they will probably not lower it. If they did, it probably wouldn't make a great deal of change. The drivers are going to drive what they feel is reasonable for them and the heck with the signs, so we almost entirely neglected speeds because it's something we probably can't control. We looked at the vehicle problems at crossings and noted that other than noon hour at McDonalds and the time when Mutual Service lets out there's not much delay on approaches to the roadway. The volume on Pinetree Drive (inaudible) program of staggering working hours which allows the traffic to be spread out which has a (inaudible) on the roadway. So we can handle quite a volume of traffic without incurring more than a short delay. The lines are increasing and there's quite a bi~ of land available near MSI in the present driving range and (inaudible) then we're going to have some problems of getting