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Tom OTCeefe^atti Loken March 18, 1999 Page 3 n. COMMENTS 1. County Road 6 and Highway 12 interchange. 2. It is important that Mn/DOT work with Hennepin County to re-evaluate the traffic projections used as the basis of the bridge design, and to review Hennepin County's long-term roadway capacity needs, to ensure the bridge is designed to adequately accommodate future traffic and match future County roadway plans; with specific attention to the ability of the bridge to accommodate tw'o additional driving lanes in the future. B The City believes the design of the interchange should include a long acceleration lane for traffic entering east bound new Highway 12 td enable merging to occur similar to a four-lane freeway. The design of the interchange should also include a long deceleration lane from west bound new Highway 12 to west bound County Road 6 to enable the exiting traffic to move out of the flow of the through traffic. The City supports the inclusion of a median barrier between the east bound and west bound lanes of new Highway 12 in the area of the County Road 6 and Highway 12 interchange. The Mn/DOT right-of-way acquisition plan should include the acquisition and retention of sufficient right-of-way for County Road 6 south of the bridge to accommodate a four lane roadway if needed in the future. The City requests Mn/DOT to re-evaluate the need for ramp meters on the entrance ramp to east bound new 12 in light of the design changes indicated in B above. It is the City's understanding that, as part of the new Highway 12 construction process, Mn/DOT will remove and replace the sewer trunk line and metro sewer interceptor line that are currently located in the railroad right-of-way. These lines will be replaced by a line or lines that meet the current and projected sewer capacity needs of both Orono and Long Lake.