SECOND STREET CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT PROJECT What is a Road Diet?

A road oad diet is the reduction of the number of travel lanes or width of lanes along a segment of roadway. For this project, the road diet is the conversion of Second Street, an undivided four-lane roadway, into a three-lane lane roadway consisting of one through la lane ne in each direction and a dedicated center left-turn turn lane. Roads with daily volumes of 20,000 vehicles or less per day are good candidates for road diets. Pros: Decrease number of vehicle lanes for pedestrians to cross Potential reduction of rear rear-end, sideswipe and angle crashes Potential to improve speed limit compliance and decrease crash severity Provide improved bicycle safety Wider through travel lanes Potential decrease of del delay during non-peak peak hour periods Cons: Potential increase of delay during peak hour periods Potential diversion of traffic to parallel routes

Why Second Street? The Second Street corridor from Jefferson Street to Independence Avenue services service about 10,000 vehicles per day. Currently the four four-lane lane section provides two through lanes in each direction with no dedicated left-turn turn lane. With a number of intersections (streets and drives) along the corridor congestion is often experienced when left left-turning turning vehicles occupy the through lanes. This can result in unnecessary delay, driver confusion and crashes. Second Street is proposed to be re-paved re this year, in conjunction with that project Second Street can be re re-striped for minimal cost. What are the other proposed improvements? Street lighting, curb and drainage improvements, ramp replacement, signal replacement, signal communications and intersection modification at Second Street and Jefferson Street are proposed along the corridor, in addition to the re-striping striping project. The rere striping will be from Jefferson Street to Independence Avenue. Curb improvements and re-paving re will continue along Second Street from Independence Avenue to M M-291. Sidewalk idewalk along the north side of Second Street from Independence endence Avenue to M M-291 is also proposed.

Crash History A review of crashes along the corridor for a five five-year year period (2007 to 2011) was conducted. Table 1 illustrates a summary of crash types along the corridor.

Table 1: Second Street Corridor Crash Type Summary Crash Type Frequency Right-Angle 81 Rear-End 53 Sideswipe 19 Fixed Object 14 Backed Into 2 Head On 1 TOTAL 170

Similar Corridors The Second Street corridor is not the first street in Lees Summit to be considered for a road diet. Road diets have been completed for the corridors listed in Table 2. Roads with comparative characteristics to Second Street are listed in Table 3. Table 2: Comparative Road Diet Locations Corridor Treatment ADT* Jefferson Street (Blue Parkway Four Lane to Three 8,200 to Second Street) Lane Section Blackwell Road (Shenandoah Four Lane to Three 2,500 Drive to Langsford Road) Lane Section

Posted Speed Limit 35 mph 35 mph

Table 3: Comparative Road Sections Corridor Treatment ADT* Third Street (Blue Parkway to Three Lane Section 10,500 Jefferson Street) Independence Avenue (Tudor Three Lane Section 7,000 Road to Colbern Road) Douglas Street (Second Street to Two Lane Section 9,000 Chipman Road) *ADT = Average Daily Traffic

Posted Speed Limit 35 mph 35 mph 35 mph