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i <br /> Criteria for dministrative Action <br /> The adminis tive action of the Traffic Engineer of the City of Eugene, Oregon, closing Stewart <br /> Road to thro h traffic approximately 1,500 feet west of the centerline of Bailey Hill Road is based <br /> on consideret on of criteria (a) - (n) at EC 5.055. Consideration of those criteria follows: <br /> (a) Traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations <br /> <br /> ~ (1) Traffic engineering principles were considered in the following areas: <br /> ? Roadway Capacity; <br /> ? Intersection Capacity; <br /> ? Safety; <br /> <br /> ~ ? Signs, Signals, Markings; <br /> ? Intersection Control; <br /> ~ ? Roadway Lighting; <br /> ? Access Control; and <br /> ? Speed Zoning. <br /> A closure of Stewart Road would significantly affect Access Control. There would <br /> be minor impacts on Intersection Capacity and Safety, and no impacts in the other <br /> areas. <br /> ? There are two aspects to Access Control. One is direct access to a property from <br /> a street. This would not be affected by the closure, as no driveways would be <br /> closed and no restrictions would be imposed on property access. <br /> <br /> i The other aspect of Access Control is the ability to get to a property from the <br /> surrounding street system. As Stewart Road was temporarily closed as a result of <br /> Administrative Order No. 58-98-17, staff was able to evaluate the effects of the <br /> closure on this type of access. The closure created two dead-end streets from <br /> what was a through street. Trip lengths and travel times increased for some <br /> motorists, both those with origins or destinations on Stewart Road and those who <br /> used Stewart as a short cut. <br /> Based on the results of an Origin and Destination Study conducted before the <br /> closure, it is estimated that 540 vehicles used Stewart Road as a through street <br /> each weekday. Of these, 220 have increased trip lengths due to the closure. <br /> Based on Travel Time studies, westbound travel time increased 25 seconds per <br /> trip and eastbound trips by 40 seconds, resulting in an additional 1.98 hours of <br /> travel time per day for non-local vehicles. <br /> Some local trips (trips with an origin or destination on Stewart Road) also have <br /> increased travel times as a result of the closure. Local residential trips likely <br /> experienced little increase in travel time, as most of their trips are to the east. <br /> Administrative Order 58-99-05, Findings <br /> <br />