ALT ERNAT I VE S TO W I D E N I NG LITHIA PINECREST
Improvement Project 2 – Bells Shoals Road to Lumsden Road Connection. Provide northbound left access onto Lumsden Road from Bell Shoals Road. (see Figure 48 for conceptual alignment) Improvement Project 4 – Lumsden RoadWidening. Widen Lumsden Road from four to six lanes from Kings Avenue to Lithia Pinecrest Road. Improvement Project 5 – Fishhawk BoulevardWidening. Widen Fishhawk Boulevard from two lanes to four lanes from Hometown Lane to Lithia Pinecrest Road. Improvement Project 6 – Brandon Parkway Extension. Provide a connection for Providence Lakes Road between Ledgestone Drive and Vista Cay Court, as well as extend the Brandon Parkway from Lumsden Road south to Providence Lakes Road. Improvement Project 11 – Lithia Pinecrest Road Uneven Widening (limited/reduced option). Provide capacity and intersection improvements along Lithia Pinecrest Road from Fishhawk Boulevard to Lumsden Road, including northbound widening from one to two lanes from south of New River Hills Parkway to Bloomingdale Avenue and southbound widening from one to two lanes from Lumsden Road to Adelaide Avenue. The Lithia Pinecrest Road/Fishhawk Boulevard intersection is also converted to a continuous green intersection for the northbound direction by widening to two lanes northbound from Fishhawk Boulevard and tapering back to one lane prior to Lithia Springs Road. Improvement Project 12 – Providence Lakes Road Connection. Provide a connection for Providence Lakes Road between Ledgestone Drive and Vista Cay Court. This improvement project should be undertaken if Improvement Project 6 – Brandon Parkway Extension is considered unfeasible.
splits in volumes between the AM and PM peak periods. For example, initial modeling showed that Bloomingdale Avenue is typically more congested than Lumsden Road in the AM, but this is reversed in the PM. Based on the initial modeling, the project team worked with County staff to understand factors contributing to problem areas and define potential improvement strategies. Consultation with County staff resulted in the identification of a number of potential improvement projects, which where subsequently combined into seven different alternative sets. These alternative sets were developed with the intent of serving as alternatives to the full Lithia Pinecrest widening project, however, with no clear performance improvement identified, the best performing aspects of each were combined to create alternative 8. The results of the alternative set modeling effort were compared to the Lithia Pinecrest widening alternative. Performance measures used during the evaluation included volume to capacity (V/C) ratio and travel time comparisons along the study area’s major roadways. 1.4 Recommendations While none of the alternative sets significantly outperformed the others, the results indicated that several individual improvement projects would provide benefits to the network. Of the 12 projects included in the seven alternative sets, the six improvement projects shown in Figure 1 are recommended for further analysis. These were identified as having the greatest potential to improve overall network-wide performance in the AM and PM peak periods. Though right of way acquisition could result in costs exceeding that of the full widening of Lithia Pinecrest Road, these improvements provide additional capacity to the most traveled roadways, as well as provide increased connectivity throughout the network. The six recommended projects are as follows:
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