At last Wednesday's RAMP meeting Dan Penrose from the City of Lakewood updated the group on preliminary findings from the I-5 congestion study the City of Lakewood has been designated to administer on behalf of the Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA) at the Department of Defense.
The presentation is available here.
In January 2009, OEA awarded the City a $450,000 planning assistance grant to study congestion on Interstate 5 through Ft. Lewis. The grant funds efforts to refine computer traffic models and determine which transportation alternatives would best address the challenges in the Interstate 5 corridor adjacent to Ft. Lewis and McChord AFB.
The 18 month study, closely coordinated with the Washington State Department of Transportation, Ft. Lewis, McChord AFB and other regional stakeholders, considers which strategies hold the most promise for reducing the congestion drivers experience on I-5 as a result of the increased base population.
More information on the study is available on the City of Lakewood website and the WSDOT project page.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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Uggh, what a stacked study. Gee, what is going to happen if you use a local travel demand model on a corridor with primarily inter-regional traffic and don't study any revamped transit options? Why, a bigger more massive I-5 and a cross-base highway, that's what. What a wasted opportunity to study what better effect a more frequent Tacoma-Olympia bus and better Amtrak service would do.
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