 Los Alamos
County has an excellent policy
for designing its streets:
| [The design approach shall provide] sufficient capacity and
safe and comfortable travel for expected levels of motorists, bicyclists,
pedestrians, transit riders, and operators of other evolving modes
of transportation... |
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Main objectives
discussed in 2011 for improvements to the intersection of Trinity Drive
and Central Avenue include
- Handle rush hour traffic more effectively
- Improve service for turns from Central onto Trinity
- Improve service for pedestrians
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Status of County/NMDOT
plans
- NMDOT update flyer
published in January, 2016; County Public Works web
update March 1, 2016
- Roundabout design 95% completed as component of NM502/Trinity Project.
- Construction scheduled to begin in Spring of 2017.
- NMDOT current estimated project cost is $7.1M.
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Citizen assessment
of current design
- A detailed 90-95% design drawing
for the roundabout was obtained by Joel Williams and circulated among
concerned county residents, February, 2016.
- Over the period of January through early March, 2016, several residents
have published Letters of Concern
in the Los Alamos Daily Post, the Los Alamos Monitor,
and/or online.
- William Mead and Joel Williams presented design
critiques in brief "Public Comments" at the Transportation
Board Meeting of 3/3/2016.
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