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n MEMO TO: Clerk -Administrator and City Council <br />FROM: Director of Public Works/Community Development <br />Police Chief <br />DATE: July 26, 1985 <br />SUBJECT: TRAFFIC CONTROL <br />As you may recall, the City Council directed staff to analyze four <br />street intersections in the City of Mounds View and determine if <br />additional stop signs are needed. These intersections are as <br />follows: <br />1. Quincy Street and Oakwood Drive <br />2. Jackson Drive and Bronson Drive <br />3. Spring Lake Road and Ardan Avenue <br />4. Eastwood Road and Ardan Avenue <br />The Police Department conducted radar speed traps on the streets <br />near these intersections and reviewed the accident records for <br />these intersections. The speed traps did not turn up a large <br />percentage of speeders. The accident reports for these intersec- <br />tions indicated that there were two accidents at the intersection <br />of Jackson Drive and Bronson Drive this year and no accidents at <br />the other intersections. This information is from the 1984 and <br />1985 traffic accident data. <br />The Public Works Department conducted traffic counts on these <br />streets. A traffic count consists of placing a traffic counter at <br />the intersection for a two day period. The counter is read at the <br />beginning of the counting period, after 24 hours and then after 48 <br />hours. <br />On Wednesday, June 12, 1985, a <br />Quincy Street at Oakwood Drive. <br />2,097 vehicles. <br />traffic counter was placed on <br />The A.D.T. for this location was <br />On Monday, June 10, 1985, a traffic counter was placed on Bronson <br />Drive west of Jackson Drive and at the same time another traffic <br />counter was placed on Jackson Drive north of Bronson Drive. The <br />traffic counter located on Bronson Drive west of Jackson Drive <br />counted 820 vehicles and the traffic counter on Jackson Drive north <br />of Bronson Drive counted 1,626 vehicles. <br />on Wednesday, July 10, 1985, a traffic counter was placed on Spring <br />Lake Road north of Ardan Avenue. The counter recorded 1,303 <br />A.D.T. Since Spring Lake Road is a county road, they have traffic <br />counts from past years. The traffic counts for Spring Lake Road <br />from 1973 to 1983 are as follows: <br />