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Memo To: The Planning Partnership Mr. John Tassiopoulos Date: December 12, 2007 From: Nick Poulos and Norman Chung RE: Sutton Secondary Plan - Transportation Project #: 07.206 1. Setting The Sutton area is situated in the north east area of York Region on the southern shores of Lake Simcoe. The existing community is somewhat self-contained but the primary travel demand for both employment and shopping is to and from the municipalities to the south. The community is the focal point for much of this area of York Region. High schools and public schools are available and service a fairly large student catchment area. There is a fairly healthy retail commercial activity level along Dalton Road. The availability of these service facilities somewhat reduces the driving distances for shopping purposes. The community also contains a population group that either through retirement or employment opportunities in the community does not have to undertake a daily commute trip. 2. Road Hierarchy The Secondary Plan Area contains a hierarchy of existing roads. The most significant facility is Highway 48 which is under the jurisdiction of the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. This facility provides regional accessibility and a direct link to the Greater Toronto Area. A series of roads under the jurisdiction of the Region of York provide direct access to existing residents, employment and retail commercial activities. These roads include: • High Street; • Dalton Road; • Park Road; • Kennedy Road; • Woodbine Avenue; • Metro Road North; • Warden Avenue; • Black River Road; and, • Baseline Road. The grid like formation of Regional Roads provides alternate choices for primary travel in the north south direction as well as the east west direction. With the exception of Dalton Road most of these roads have two lanes of traffic with one lane of travel in each direction. Dalton Road and some of the intersections such as Black River Road provide exclusive left turn lanes for turning vehicles. Most other intersections within Sutton do not provide exclusive turning lanes. Sutton is serviced by two intersections (High Street and Park Road) with Highway 48. These two intersections designed to Provincial standards provide very significant capacity for all vehicle turning movements. The primary purpose of the east west regional roads is to access the north south regional roads. In addition the P o u l o s & C h u n g L i m i t e d 535 Bur Oak Avenue – Markham, ON, Canada L6C 2S5 – Tel (905) 479-7942 – Fax (905) 479-1266 Specialists in Transportation Planning & Traffic Engineering
Memo east west roads are used to access the available services on Dalton Street. It is the north south grid road that services the primary direction of travel which is to and from the south. The primary direction of travel accommodates a commute vehicle trip for work purposes as well as most shopping trip purposes. 3. Existing Travel and Roadway Conditions Observed traffic flows indicate that the pre-dominant direction of vehicular travel is to and from the south. The predominance of this direction of travel is expected to continue as the planned population grows in Sutton. Currently all traffic flows are accommodated at acceptable levels of service by all of the primary roads (Regional and Provincial). Local roads which directly serve existing land uses also provide service capacity to satisfactorily meet daily travel demands. The roads which serve the highest vehicle demand and as a result use up approximately 40 to 50 per cent of the available roadway capacity include: • Highway 48; • High Street; • Dalton Road. It is not surprising that these are the heaviest utilized roads in Sutton. These roads accumulate the Sutton area traffic flows and essentially concentrate the flow at the most significant intersection on Highway 48. This is the intersection that provides direct access to the most convenient route servicing the travel demand to the south. The second most convenient route to service the pre-dominant direction of travel is Woodbine Avenue. As a result both Baseline Road and Woodbine Avenue serve ever increasing traffic demand as an alternate to Highway 48. The intersection of Park Road and Highway 48 also provides a direct route to and from the south. This intersection is currently not as heavily utilized due to the fact that most existing development is concentrated around the Dalton Road and Metro Road North corridors. It is estimated that the current traffic demand in the roadway peak hours uses approximately 45 to 50 percent of the available capacity on High Street and Dalton Road. These two roads not only accumulate the traffic flows to access Highway 48 but also provide direct access to the numerous vehicle generating activities located along these roads. It is estimated that the current vehicle demand on Highway 48 uses approximately 55 to 60 percent of the available capacity. Traffic flows on Highway 48 do fluctuate due to the summer seasonal traffic flow. During the summer months the traffic flow on Highway 48 increases, especially on Fridays and weekend days by approximately 10 to 15 percent 4. Future Development It is anticipated that the Sutton population will grow to accommodate a total of approximately 16,500 people. In addition it is anticipated that there will be some minor increases in retail / commercial activities in the designated areas. It is evident that some of the proposed development will contain senior citizen residents. Also the trend to provide housing for retired couples is expected to continue. These types of development do not generate the typical work trip during the weekday roadway peak hours. In addition this segment of the population tends to P o u l o s & C h u n g L i m i t e d 535 Bur Oak Avenue – Markham, ON, Canada L6C 2S5 – Tel (905) 479-7942 – Fax (905) 479-1266 Specialists in Transportation Planning & Traffic Engineering
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