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Pam Burke's avatar

In 2019 AASHTO published guidelines for low volume roads. They use 2000 vpd (vehicles per day) or less as the cutoff for those roads. They estimate that the vast majority of roads in the U.S. fall into this category. They mention design elements such as road width, sight lines, and clear zones with an eye to not "improving" them unless there is evidence of accidents directly related to those elements. This information was just recently passed on to the department that designs and maintains the roads in our county. Much of what citizens had been advocating for years was in that document and our road folks had no idea it was there.

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ProFound Insights's avatar

It's not a road; it's a river. But when it's a street, it's a dance.

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