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� ,,.88 MEMO TO: Mayor and City Couk\\ FROM: Clerk-AdministratoI DATE: January 26, 1984 SUBJECT: HIGHWAY 10 PEDESTRIAN SIGNALIZATION TIMING STUDY On the afternoon of January 24, 1984 I met with Mr. Mike Robinson and Mr. Kurt Gobeli at the District 9 office of the Minnesota Department of Transportation regarding the results of their Highway 10 pedes- trian signalization timing study. As you will recall, this study was precipitated as a result of a report by Mr. Neil Murray on On Your Behalf that pedestrians are unable to cross the entire width of Highway 10 at the Silver Lake Road intersection. Mr. Murray's observations are correct and it is the present policy of the Minnesota Department of Transportation, according to Mr. Mike Robinson, that pedestrian signalization timing is such that a pedestrian would be able to cross only one-half of the width of Highway 10 during one timing cycle. The Department of Transportation evaluated the timing cycles to determine what would be necessary to allow the pedestrian to cross the entire width of Highway 10 within one timing cycle and what the impacts on vehicular traffic would be as a result of the increased signalization timing. As a result of this evaluation, it was the determination of the Department of Transportation that, on an experimental basis, the pedestrian signals at all signalized intersections on Highway 10 in Mounds view will be increased from an 18 to 34 second interval which would allow a pedestrian to cross the entire width of the roadway. The changes in the timing will occur sometime before this summer and will run through the entire summer in order that the Department would be able to evaluate the impacts on vehicular traffic flows. There is a possibility that due to the manner in which traffic signals operate,using detection devices and timing clocks,that certain portions of signals for vehicular traffic would be cancelled when pedestrians are crossing the highway, however, these would only occur on the left turn signals and should not create any significant impacts on vehicular flows. Mr. Robinson is preparing an article for the City Newsletter for publication in the March Newsletter regarding this change in signalization and will be meeting with the residents of the elderly/handicapped housing project to advise them of the changes also. Staff will be developing information regarding traffic safety and pedestrian crossings for the School District to distri- bute in the spring of the year before children are out on summer vacation.