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State Highway 5. County Proposal 5 would increase this over capacity by another 20,000 vpd. bringing the total level of over capacity to 38,000 vpd, excluding the 30,000 vpd excess on I-94. Even under the most rapid, high density development scenario, acceptance of Proposal 5 will assure continuation of a very large over capacity in the east west direction in 20 years. If the bridge over I-94 is built, and there is great pressure by Woodbury and Oakdale to build it, the over capacity of a 4-lane CSAH 10 would be even greater. According to the April 1992 Washington County Transit Planning Study, by Strgar-Roscoe-Fausch, Inc. the 1992, population of the Washington County cities affected by the CSAH 10 construction (Lake Elmo, Oakdale, West Lakeland, and Woodbury) is 50,000. The 1992 AADT for CSAH 10 is about 5,000. The 2010 population of these cities (adjusted for 250 acres of newly proposed residential housing in Oakdale) is projected to grow to 77,000 (adding 1,500 in Lake Elmo, 4,000 in Oakdale, and decreasing by 200 in West Lakeland). Proposal No. 6 projects a corresponding increase in the AADT on the referenced section of CSAH 10 to 7,900. The County Public Works Department suggests a 2010 AADT of 15,000. (This compares with only 11,500 in a separate 1992 Strgar-Roscoe-Fausch, Inc. report.) Thus, the County Public Works Department is suggesting increase in AADT of 300 percent, compared with a population increase of only 50%. Only a phenomenal change in local employment levels in the next 17 years could account for anything like the Washington County Public Works Department's suggested traffic growth. As previously discussed, with the transfer of Section 32 to Oakdale, most of the planned business use was eliminated. Privately, highway engineers at MnDOT, legislators at the Capitol, Commissioners of Washington, residents who are among the few who are aware of the County's plans, and independent traffic engineers who have been consulted oppose the County Public Works Department Proposal. They are reluctant to