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Transportation update Roger Toogood Roseville Citizen's League Transportation Committee Your Roseville Citizens League, which has been in existence since 1989, continues to work on a number of items important to Roseville Community members. "Transportation" has been one area of particular focus for the past five years. Our members were actively involved in the 2030 Comprehensive Plan and support the five key goals outlined in the final document. On Oct. 14, 2008, the RCL sponsored a transportation forum that included presenters State Rep. Alice Hausman; MnDOT North Area Manager Chris Roy; Ramsey County Engineer Ken Haider; Ramsey County Commissioner Jan Parker; Roseville Public Works Director Duane Schwartz and City Engineer Deb Bloom: Questions posed and answered at the forum included inquiries about the absence of designated right or left turn lanes on a number of the busiest intersections in Roseville; concerns about intersections requiring improvements; intersections with exceptionally long wait times resulting in waste of time and gas, intersections with inadequate signage; and intersections with high frequency of accidents. Time constraints at the forum precluded answers to 27 additional questions. The RCL committed to obtain answers for these additional questions from the presenters, post the answers on our website, rosevillecl@roseville.org, and share- the answers in the Roseville Review. Answers were published in a June edition of the Roseville Review, Several questions were not answered in time for the web posting and publication. The answers to these questions indicated the following. There are no plans to upgrade the 35 W and Cleveland Avenue interchange in the next 20 years. Virtually all of the Roseville signals are traffic activated. Ramsey County is leading a design process for the Highway 36/Rice Street interchange which includes the County Road B. intersection. A variety of techniques, including an article in the Roseville Review and posting on the Roseville Issues Forum, were used to get citizen input on which intersections needed improvements. Out of the total responses, the RCL Board selected 16 that had the largest citizen input. Joseph. Lux, Planning Specialist for the Ramsey County Department of Public Works, reviewed each of the l 6 intersections and came up with an analysis of county road intersections in Roseville that could be modified to improve traff c flow. His analysis and explanation for each of the following intersections can be seen on our website: 1. County Road B2 (CSAH 78)/Fairview Avenue (CSAH 48) • Right-turn lane for eastbound County Road B2. This will be cnnsidet~ed as a part of a Ramsey County project prograinmed,for 2012. 2. County Road C (CSAH 23)/Rice Street {CSAH 49) • Right-turn. lane for eastbound County Road C. This will be considered as a part of a Ramsey County project programmed. for 2012 3. Rice Street (CSAH 49)/County Road C21Market Place • Left-turn lane for northbound Rice Street.