What do we know about implications for the 5 corner intersection? Sent from my iPhone
> On Nov 27, 2023, at 6:25 PM, John F. Carr <voxsciuro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Table 5 of the traffic report shows intersection delays. > For example, in 2020 about one car a minute made it > through the southbound stop sign on Codman Road > during rush hour. The volume and delay at this intersection > may already exceed the threshold for a traffic signal. > > Lincoln Road capacity is limited by intersections. > You can move a lot more cars along a lane of > road than you can get through a stop sign. > For ballpark estimating, the capacity of an intersection > does not exceed 1,000 vehicles per lane per hour > while the capacity of an unobstructed road is twice that. > > John Carr > >> On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 8:18 PM Bijoy Misra <misra.bi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I just saw a traffic study report posted at the town site. The report date >> is Dec 20, 2020 >> I don't know how the charge was stated, but it goes on counting cars at >> various locations >> and projects the expected cars as those locations under some development >> criterion. >> It fails to cite the critical quantity like traffic delays. One would like >> to know the objective >> estimate of transport time between Lincoln Station to Library crossing (Five >> Corner) or >> Rt2 lights if we put fifty extra vehicles in rush hour. What happens if we >> put a hundred >> extra vehicles? Software should exist to parametrize the road (speed, >> bumps, curves, >> children) and estimate the delays. >> Then the recommendation could be how to release the bottleneck. The report >> has many >> left right numbers at intersections which I thought were useless. Will the >> Planning Manager >> or the Planning Board help unravel the purpose and the findings in this >> document? >> Best regards, >> Bijoy Misra > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to Lincoln@lincolntalk.org. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. > -- The LincolnTalk mailing list. To post, send mail to Lincoln@lincolntalk.org. Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. Change your subscription settings at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln.
