About the project
The Bismarck-Mandan Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) has initiated a study to determine operational improvements
The corridor study includes:
- Establish a purpose and need for the project
- Analysis of existing corridors
- Analysis of existing facilities (lighting, signing, pavement markings, sight line impediments and traffic control, etc.)
- Cost versus benefit analysis of alternatives
- Traffic operations analysis of existing corridors listed
- Environmental and social impacts of alternatives
- Evaluation of advantages and disadvantages and cost comparisons of the various alternatives
- Impacts on roadway system intersections along these corridors
- Investigation of the feasibility of construction of alternatives
- Analysis of resulting capacity and level of service at major intersections
- A recommended prioritized (by corridor) implementation plan
- A truck origin/destination report for the Mandan Main Street truck route portion of study
- A purposeful eye towards the Mandan Land Use and Transportation Plan as a guiding reference for the Mandan corridors and truck route portions of the study
- Evaluation of possible speed limit changes
Project Schedule |
2015 | 2016 | ||||||||||
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| Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | |
| Project Kickoff | Mid-August 2015 | |||||||||||
| Existing Conditions Evaluation | Late August through December 2015 | |||||||||||
| Public Meeting #1 | Mid-January 2016 | Project Kickoff | ||||||||||
| Alternatives Development | February through early March 2016 | |||||||||||
| Public Meeting #2 | Mid-March 2016 | Alternatives Development | ||||||||||
| Alternatives Evaluation | Late March through early April 2016 | |||||||||||
| Public Meeting #3 | Mid-April 2016 | Alternatives Evaluation | ||||||||||
| Final Report Draft | May 2016 | |||||||||||
| Commission & NDDOT Management Presentations | Mid-June 2016 | |||||||||||
| Final Report | July 2016 | |||||||||||