Posted Dec 12, 2006, 6:45 PM
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Change is good
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Originally Posted by JAH
Heard on the radio this morning that the city did a study on intersections inEdmonton and 23rd ave/Gateway was the busiest (I think) of all intersections in edm.. geeee big surprise there.
Fak.. get going with this project already!
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Heres the Article in the Journal
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Edmonton Journal wrote:
Tuesday » December 12 » 2006
23rd Ave., Gateway Blvd. accident prone
Construction on $125 million intersection overpass to begin next summer
Duncan Thorne
The Edmonton Journal
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
CREDIT: Rick MacWilliam, The Journal, File
Traffic at 23rd Avenue and Gateway Blvd. is some of the heaviest in the city.
EDMONTON -- The high-traffic intersection at Gateway Boulevard and 23rd Avenue is the city's top collision spot, latest results show.
The intersection, the main entry point to South Edmonton Common, had 100 accidents in the first seven months of the year, adding to the case for an overpass, says an official.
Construction is set to start next summer, at an estimated cost of $125 million.
Craig Walbaum, senior traffic engineer, says there are other intersections where the collision rate -- as opposed to the total number of crashes -- is higher. The traffic circle at 107th Avenue and 142nd Street, for instance, has about four accidents per million vehicles.
Gateway at 23rd Avenue has about half that rate but leads in accident totals because of its shear volume of traffic, Walbaum said Monday. And a rate of two collisions per million vehicles is still high, even if not the highest.
"At peak periods of the day there's no more capacity to handle the cars that are there," he said. "When you have that high a number of vehicles entering through an intersection there's a tendency to see a higher number of collisions."
Further, crashes at the Gateway intersection often produce injuries. Up to the end of July, it was the site of 43 injury collisions, trailing only the 137th Avenue and 97th Street crossroad, which had a tally of 45.
Walbaum said an overpass at Gateway and 23rd Avenue will give the intersection more capacity and improve safety.
Transportation staff are reviewing the causes behind the number of injury accidents at 137th Avenue and 97th Street. One reason is 97th Street has several lanes, and traffic from the north is travelling at higher speeds before the intersection. He said there's no plan for an overpass but options include changes in lane design, street signs and timing traffic lights.
The traffic circle at 107th Avenue and 142nd Street leads with its collision rate, but its accidents tend to be at lower speeds, Walbaum said. "There's a lot of fender benders or rear-end type collisions, bumper to bumper."
The transportation department normally produces accident numbers in the spring, for the previous calendar year. Its latest numbers, for the first seven months of 2006, are at the request of council.
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© The Edmonton Journal 2006
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... seeing it's so close to Xmas, why would that be hard to believe.... ;/
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