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Regional traffic-count program shows rising travel on Keene Road and local shifts in West Richland
Summary
Benton-Franklin Council of Governments presented 2016–2024 traffic-count results showing Keene Road as West Richland’s highest-volume corridor, notable increases on Kennedy Road and decreases on parts of Bombing Range and Van Giesen.
Tanner Martin, a regional planner at the Benton-Franklin Council of Governments, presented results from the agency’s regional traffic-count program to the West Richland City Council on May 6, showing Keene Road as the city’s most-traveled corridor and several local locations with large year-over-year shifts.
The program, launched in 2016, uses bidirectional pneumatic tube counters to record vehicle volumes, vehicle type and speed during midweek collection windows in spring and fall. Martin said, “In 2024, we collected a total of 17,718 sites, and 44 of those were located in the city of West Richland.” He told council the BFCOG system remains tube-based…
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