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LOCALLY INITIATED COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS PROGRAM FOR THE STATE FISCAL YEAR 1997 TRUNK HIGHWAY 10 / CSAH 35 (CENTRAL AVE) SOUTH FRONTAGE ROAD EXTENSION AND DETACHMENT, NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD DETACHMENT, AND PLEASANT VIEW DRIVE SIGNALIZATION ANOKA COUNTY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This proposal consists of three components on the Trunk Highway 10 corridor between the interchange at TH 65 and Pleasant View Drive in the City of Spring Lake Park. The three components are: 1.) the extension of CSAH 35 to serve as a frontage road and eliminating its existing access onto TH 10 and extending it to a new intersection point on Pleasant View Drive; 2.) the elimination of the north frontage road access onto TH 10 at the intersection of 83rd Avenue; and 3.) the signalization and geometric improvements of Pleasant View Drive at its intersection with TH 10. Anoka County's interest in this project is primarily based on the elimination of the safety hazard that exists at the current intersection of CSAH 35 and TH 10. In 1994, the Anoka County Highway Department performed a study of this intersection in preparation of an application for the 1998/99 Hazard Elimination Safety (HES)Program. The three year accident study (1991 through 1993) revealed a total of 16 accidents including seven injury accidents and one fatality. Using the criteria set forth under HES guidelines, it was proposed that providing a traffic control signal system at this location would be a solution to reducing this high incidence of accidents. Although the project qualified for HES funds with a cost/benefit ratio of 3.0, the project was not selected by the HES review panel, believed partly because of MnDOT's reluctance to add another signal on TH 10 in close vicinity to the TH 65 interchange. Anoka County recognizes the problematic conditions that a signal at this location may have caused and, as an alternative, is now proposing to detach the existing access onto TH 10 and extent CSAH 35 as a frontage road along the south side of TH 10 and connect instead to Pleasant View Drive which has full access onto TH 10 approximately 1,700 feet to the east. The added benefit to this proposal is that there would be an additional closure of seven direct accesses onto TH 10. This would complete the first component of this submittal. The second component would further eliminate the incidence of accidents at the CSAH 35 /TH 10 intersection. This would be accomplished by eliminating the direct access of the north frontage road from its location across from CSAH 35. The median break is also proposed to be removed • as a part of either component one or two.