City of Greater Sudbury Transportation Study Report

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In the 2003 State of the Community Report, the importance of the maintenance of the main roads topped the residents’ list of important services currently provided by Greater Sudbury. The importance of this issue has grown by 5% over the previous year. With respect to municipal services, the business community identified winter road maintenance as the top priority in 2003 and the maintenance of main roads as third on the priority list. The importance of transit service ranked higher with the business community than with residents. Of the 24 services provided by Greater Sudbury, the business community ranked transit service the 16 th most important while residents ranked it the 20 th most important. The issue that both the business community and residents most agreed upon, in all four survey years, was that Greater Sudbury should invest in maintaining and improving existing facilities and roads rather than build new facilities or roads. 2.9.4. Public Information Sessions Comments were received at the two public information sessions. The main issue was consideration and development of more facilities to accommodate pedestrians and bicycles. The need to develop a complete and accessible trail system including more bicycle paths throughout Greater Sudbury was reiterated a number of times. Other comments included concerns regarding air emissions, support for the Maley Drive extension linking Maley Drive to MR 80 (parallel to LaSalle Boulevard) and concern regarding safety within the McCrea Heights area. Comments received during the Public Information Sessions are provided in Appendix F. CITY OF GREATER SUDBURY OFFICIAL PLAN BACKGROUND REPORT September 2005 Page 33
3. HOUSEHOLD SURVEY 3.1. Methodology To develop a better understanding of current travel patterns in Greater Sudbury, a household survey was undertaken. Approximately 5% of the households in Greater Sudbury were contacted and information regarding the travel patterns of all household members over the age of 15 was collected. The information included household type, start time of each trip, the mode of travel used for each trip, the purpose of each trip, the length of time for each trip, and the origin and destination of each trip. The trip origin and destination information took the form of an address, a major intersection, or the name of a major place. A copy of the survey questionnaire is provided in Appendix “G”. The survey took place between October 2003 and January 2004 and over 3000 households were contacted. The information collected from the survey was used to calibrate and validate the travel demand forecasting model. 3.2. Conduct of the Survey A 5% sample of households was drawn for each of the former municipalities in Greater Sudbury. Just prior to undertaking the survey, residents were notified that they might be contacted and asked to participate via an announcement in the Sudbury Star. Households were then contacted by telephone between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Household members over the age of 15 were queried on the trips they and their family members had made the day before. 3.3. Geocoding The origin and destination of the trips recorded in the interviews were geographically coded (geo-coded) into the traffic zone system developed for Greater Sudbury, shown in Figures 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 (in Section 4 of this report). Greater Sudbury provided a street network file that gave address ranges for many road segments. Using TransCAD, a transportation modeling software, the traffic zone that these road segments were in, could be identified and in this way, part of the geo-coding process was automated. For those origins and destinations that could not be located using this method, the traffic zones were determined manually. Approximately half of the origins and destinations were geo-coded through the automated process and the remainder was manually geo-coded. 3.4. Expansion and Validation of the Survey To calibrate the model, the 5% sample of households that participated in the survey was expanded to represent all households in Greater Sudbury. Two methods for performing this expansion were considered. The first involved expanding the information based on the number of households and the second involved expanding the information based on the population. Since population data was readily available at the Census Tract level, it was considered appropriate to expand the information for each Census Tract by the population of that Census Tract. Generally, due to the 5% sample size, expansion rates for each Census Tract were close to 20. After expansion, the next step was to validate the data with traffic information. CITY OF GREATER SUDBURY OFFICIAL PLAN BACKGROUND REPORT September 2005 Page 34
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Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTINUED 4. TRAF
Page 5 and 6: FIGURES CONTINUED Figure 8.1.1 Road
Page 7 and 8: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Context The City
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Page 17 and 18: Levack Onaping Dowling Worthington
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Page 27 and 28: The former City of Sudbury makes up
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4. Kathleen Street Improvements Kat
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for Bancroft Drive, minimal traffic
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Figure 9.1.2 - Montrose Road Extens
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Figure 9.1.4 - Martilla Drive Exten
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Figure 9.1.6 - Barrydowne South Con
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Provide dual northbound left turn l
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10. ROAD DESIGNATIONS 10.1. Existin
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TABLE 10.1.1 - ROAD CLASSIFICATION
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Under future conditions, the sectio
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10.3. Road Access Policies Policies
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Greater Sudbury staff should encour
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Widen MR 80. Provide a continuous l
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11.3. Funding Options Capital outla
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12. RECOMMENDATIONS Recommendations
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a. The Hawthorne Drive Connection b
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25. Continue to improve coverage th
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