Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 2, 1990 TAG: 9003023502
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B2 EDITION: EVENING
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Herbert will recommend Monday that council ask the Virginia Department of Transportation to begin planning for the widening of Brandon for a distance of approximately 1.3 miles.
The widening of Brandon is part of the compromise agreement between the Greater Deyerle Neighborhood Association, state highway officials and the city on the Peters Creek Road project.
The neighborhood association has agreed that it won't oppose the Peters Creek project if the city will implement a series of traffic control measures and widen Brandon.
In a report on council's agenda, Herbert said the Brandon Avenue project is estimated to cost $7 million.
The state has programmed $20.2 million for the Peters Creek Road project, he said, but the recommended route will cost only $15 million. This $5.2 million in unused funds can be used to help pay for the Brandon project, he said.
Herbert will recommend Monday that council approve the route that will allow Peters Creek Road to be extended 2.5 miles from Melrose Avenue to Brandon at Aerial Way Drive.
Residents in the Deyerle-Mud Lick Road area have feared that the Peters Creek Road project would increase traffic on their streets because motorists will use their neighborhood as a shortcut between Brandon and Virginia 419.
The agreement calls for these traffic control measures:
Four-way stops signs at the intersection of Mud Lick Road and Deyerle Road.
No left turns from Brandon Avenue onto Deyerle Road during the morning and afternoon peak traffic hours, Monday through Friday.
No left turns from Deyerle Road onto Brandon Avenue during the morning peak traffic hours, Monday through Friday.
No left turns from Grandin Road onto Mud Lick Road in the morning peak traffic hours, Monday through Friday.
Annual reports from the city to the Greater Deyerle Neighborhood Association on traffic counts on Keagy Road, Cravens Creek Road, Mud Lick Road, Circle Drive and Deyerle Road. When there is a 25 percent increase in traffic counts, the city and neighborhood group will develop traffic conttrol measures to preserve the rural residential character of the neighborhood.
Pending agreement of neighborhood residents, entrance or exit at Circle Drive and Grandin Road restricted.
A city promise to "make every effort possible" to enforce the current and future traffic control measures.
Construction on the Peters Creek Road project is expected to start in 1995 and be completed by 1997.
The highway would have four lanes, separated by a 16-foot grass median strip with curb, gutter and sidewalk on each side. The road would have a 90-foot right of way.
Highway engineers estimate the traffic on the highway would average between 31,800 and 33,100 vehicles per day in the year 2010.
by CNB