By law, each project brought forth by Caltrans must have
a specific purpose and need. Noted below is this project's
purpose and need statement.
Purpose:
The purpose of this project is to maintain or improve current and future traffic
operations in the SR 94 rural corridor in order to improve the safe and efficient
regional movement of people and goods for the planning design year 2030.
The goals of this project are to:
- Improve highway operations while maintaining current capacity.
- Reduce delays and improved travel time.
- Increase sight distances.
- Improve maneuverability and room for vehicles to avoid roadway hazards (e.g. falling rocks and other debris).
- Enable legal length vehicles to stay within traffic lanes (e.g. allowing for Surface
Transportation Advisory Act [STAA] design trucks to use SR 94 without having to cross the
roadway centerline or use both lanes when traveling through curved sections).
Need:
- Sight distance is limited
- Maneuverability for trucks and vehicle traffic is limited due to non-standard lane and shoulder widths
- Traffic flow slows down and queues form behind trucks and trailers
- Opportunities for passing slower moving vehicles is limited
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