General Plan Update Review Committee Draft Elements Part 2 For ...

4-14 VISALIA GENERAL PLAN UPDATE
T-P-19 Pursue Transportation System Management
(TSM) for the mitigation of traffic and parking
congestion.
Public transit, traffic management, ride sharing,
and parking management can be used to
implement TSM strategies.
T-P-20 Work with major employers and the Tulare
County Association of Governments (TCAG)
to reduce total vehicle miles traveled and the
total number of daily and peak hour vehicle
trips and provide better utilization of
the transportation system through development
and implementation of Transportation
Demand Management (TDM) strategies that
are tailored to the needs of geographic areas
within the city and the time period of traffic
congestion.
These may include the implementation staggered
work hours, utilization of telecommunications,
increased use of ridesharing in the public and
private sectors, and provision for bicyclists.
Coordination with the College of the
Sequoias
T-P-21 Coordinate with the College of the Sequoias
to develop a transportation plan that ensures
that the College provides adequate parking
areas for students and faculty; improves circulation
issues on and adjacent to campus; integrates
transit; and incorporates Transportation
Demand Management (TDM) strategies
such as incentives for ridesharing and facilities
for bicyclists.
The plan should minimize negative impacts on
surrounding residential areas and on the transportation
system.
4.4 PLANNED IMPROVEMENTS
To achieve a balance between existing and future land
uses and the carrying capacity of transportation corridors,
improvements to the roadway network will be
needed. The future Circulation Diagram is illustrated
in Figure 4-1. Major street improvements consistent
with the Circulation Diagram planned for Visalia
are listed in Table 4-5. These improvements include
widening portions of State Route 198 and other major
arterials, new bridge crossings, interchange improvements
and grade separations. Several new arterial
roads will need to be constructed as well as numerous
collector and residential streets in the targeted growth
areas. The proposed roads are conceptual, subject to
further engineering and environmental review. Interchange
improvements may be done in coordination
with Caltrans and other jurisdictions.
Table 4-5 shows planned improvements where engineering
details are known; additional improvements,
shown on Figure 4-1, will also be needed to accommodate
future traffic and ensure a complete street
system correlated with future land use. Details on
these planned improvements will be defined as the
City moves forward with long-range capital improvement
programming.