An important early step in developing the County’s long range transportation plan is the identification of the specific problems affecting the system. This helps planners identify projects and strategies to address the deficiencies and needs in the system. In the plan, deficiencies and needs are examined in the following six categories: safety, non-motorized, transit, bridges, congestion and pavement. Over the next three weeks, WATS will be asking for your help to locate specific deficiencies or needs in your communities.
This first, in a series of six posts, examines pavement deficiencies and needs. It is important that you provide enough details about the pavement deficiencies or needs you comment on in order for WATS to compile the comment for inclusion in the plan. Please include the road name where you feel the pavement is deficient, as well as the two streets at the ends of the segment and describe the actual pavement deficiency. For example, up until recently, one might have described a pavement deficiency as follows “The pavement is very poor on Ann Arbor-Saline road between the intersections of Wagner Road and Pleasant Lake Road.”
When providing a comment please include your name, the community you live in, and if you feel comfortable, your email address. If you do not feel comfortable including your email address, you may still provide comments, however, to allow WATS to document and keep track of your comment, please include your email address along with your comments in an email to us at wats@miwats.org.
Please visit the blog often over the next three weeks in order to provide comments for the other five deficiencies. Please share this blog site with others in an effort to provide additional opportunities for others to comment on deficiencies on our transportation system.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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3 comments:
What makes pavement "deficient"? Is it as simple as, "this section of road needs to be repaved"?
To get the comments started, I'll offer a few within the City of Ypsilanti:
* North Huron Street, Forest Ave to Lowell Street, is more patch than road
* Michigan Avenue, at intersections of Hamilton and Huron
* Forest Avenue, College Place to River Street, has particular issues of crumbling along the edges (a bicycle safety concern)
* North Adams Street, is in very poor condition from Michigan Avenue north to Pearl; primarily the northbound lane is in poor condition from there to Cross Street.
I could name others, but I'll let somebody else play.
Richard Murphy (Ypsilanti city)
murph.monkey@gmail.com
Hi Murph,
Thank you for your comment. The way you described pavement deficiencies is exactly how WATS would like to see them posted on this blog.
At WATS, staff uses a rating from 10 (newly constructed) to 1 (nearly unpassable) to determine the quality and likely remaining life of a pavement.
For the purposes of this post, we are leaving the identification of "deficient" to the reader. If you believe the road (which includes bike lanes) needs treatment such as reconstruction or repaving, please let us know. WATS will also pass along your comments to the agency with jurisdiction over the pavement deficiencies you report to us.
Thanks!
To add to Murph's City of Ypsi locations, I'd add:
- Cross St. between Wallace and Washtenaw. (rating: 4 for bike-trapping longitudinal cracks and patches)
- College St. between Forest and Cross is all patch, no road
- Grove Rd. between I94 bridge approach and Emerick Rd. has constant problems. It is repatched almost annually, and patchwork does not even survive 12 months of use
- Prospect Rd. between Cross and Holmes.
In Ypsi Twp:
- McKean south of Textile for 1/2 mile
- Bridge St. between Grove and Textile: is has no shoulder or margin.
- Rawsonville south of Bog Rd. has no shoulder, which is likely a contributing cause of recent motorist-on-cyclist fatality.
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