Year 2025 Transportation Master Plan Update - City of Oviedo

Lockwood Boulevard, that desire to turn right onto Mitchell Hammock Road. The
utilization of these dual left turn lanes could be improved by converting the outside
through lane of the southbound approach of Lockwood Road at the intersection with
Mitchell Hammock Road, to a shared through/right lane. Although vehicles in the inside
left turn lane would still have to make a lane change to turn right onto Mitchell Hammock
Road, this would reduce the number of required lane changes to make this maneuver
from two lanes to one. This conversion would also require that the northbound left turn
phase at the Mitchell Hammock Road and Lockwood Boulevard intersection be
converted to protected only.
During the AM peak period the westbound approach of the SR 426 intersection with
Mitchell Hammock Road/Red Bug Lake Road has significant queuing and delay. The
existing configuration of the intersection adds a third through lane immediately west of
this intersection. During the AM peak a large percentage of the westbound traffic
changes lanes immediately west of this intersection to access SR 417, which causes
the outermost lane to back up on westbound Mitchell Hammock Road/Red Bug Lake
Road. A near term improvement that would improve the operations of the intersection
during the AM peak period would be to convert the existing westbound right turn lane to
a shared through/right lane, which would allow more traffic to flow through the
intersection in the westbound direction. However, this improvement would not
significantly improve the PM peak period operations.
At the Mitchell Hammock Road and Alafaya Woods Boulevard intersection, traffic
queues up in the eastbound direction during the PM peak period because of vehicles
parking on the side of Mitchell Hammock Road to pick children up from Stenstrom
Elementary School, which is located on the southwest quadrant of the intersection. An
eastbound right turn lane was considered to mitigate this problem, however, drainage
and right-of-way impacts pose a significant cost and traffic making this right turn to the
elementary school will still remain queued within the turn lane (a temporary daily
occurrence). Because there is not a significant number of eastbound right turning
vehicles during the PM peak period, this improvement was dropped from further
consideration with additional emphasis to be placed on advisory/warning signs of traffic
congestion during the afternoon pick-up times and stronger emphasis on promoting safe
walk and bike routes to school. A separate study addressing school access safety has
been completed by the city addressing improvements around Stenstrom Elementary.
At the SR 434 and Mitchell Hammock Road intersection, in the PM peak period traffic
queues from the eastbound right turn lane into the through lane, preventing full
utilization of the eastbound through lanes, the existing eastbound left turn lane is also
fairly short due to the median opening for the Albertsons shopping center. This median
opening located near this signalized intersection also has safety concerns, due to the
number of crashes that have occurred at this median opening. The existing intersection
operation could be improved by converting the existing full entrance into the Albertsons
shopping center into a directional right-in, right out and extending the eastbound right
turn lane to the westernmost entrance to the shopping center. This lane would operate
as a continuous right turn lane from the westernmost shopping center entrance to the
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Year 2025 Transportation Master Plan Update