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2 and will come up whenever an improvement is proposed and quite often they do, in fact, occur, but we think that Skillman Avenue, by the nature of the street, by the confined length, and by the residential neighborhood may not have the potential to realize those concerns. In other words, the increase in volume of traffi~ and increase in speeds. I'd like to emphasize a few points, and you have received a copy of a lett er we sent to Mr. Honchell which provided some additional information on those points. If I might use the chart - Skillman Avenue,unlike many of the other roads that are being improved, is not a street that has a lengthy distance that it traverses. In other words, Roselawn, going from 280 to Victoria carries traffic across the entire 'western part of the city. Skillman is very restricted. It goes from Fairview to Snelling. There are two parallel routes readily available in Roselawn and County Road B. There are also some restrictions as to where traffic can go once ,it reaches either end of Skillman Avenue. Example - on the east end it runs into the frontage road and any vehioles that have a destination somewhere to the east other than Har-Mar would have to go to the frontage road and north or south, eventually going out on Snelling and back to one of the other streets, so we suspect most of the traffic that has a destination other than in the immediate area is already on one of the other streets. It is doubtful anyone would drive to Skillman merely because it's a wider pavement or smoother pavement. We have done a little work and have elaborated with a few figures in the report to indicate the volumes of traffic to Skillman, along with the volumes generated by the residents themselves. The volume on the west end is less than a thousand vehicles per day. We did some calculations to try to figure the area that might (inaudible) contribute traffic, and find the residential would contribute more than 500 of those trips. This does not include the Rose Bowl or commercial property along Snelling Avenue. We doubt there would be any increase in traffic from the neighborhood or from traffic that has destinations other than the commercial strip or the Har-Mar Center, and that probably would be on Skillman whether improved or stays in its present condition. We also had some questions raised about speeds. We have done a lot of work - I personally have done a lot of work the last 15 years on speed zoning and speed studies. We find there are a number of factors that control the speed. It's not the size, but the condition of the road, the character of the neighborhood - quite a number of factors. On a street such as Skillman, the prime control of speed is probably the residential neighborhood. The character is such that people do not have an opportunity to unconsciously speed. The