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Washington County shifts transportation planning timeline, readies intersection safety analysis
Summary
County highway staff said the county and local municipalities will extend their long-range transportation network planning horizon to 2060 and that a GIS-driven intersection safety analysis will begin in August, producing batched plans for multiple towns.
Washington County highway staff told the committee Thursday that the county and its municipalities are moving their long-range transportation network planning horizon from 2050 to 2060 and that a data-driven intersection safety review will begin in August.
Josh (staff member), presenting the highway quarterly report, said the county is “actually shifting that up now 10 years,” meaning future countywide and local plans will be prepared on a 2060 horizon rather than 2050. He said the Town of Jackson and the Town of Addison are the next local plans the county expects to prepare, and the countywide update will begin in the fall.
The county’s intersection and roadway analysis will use crash-report exports run through county GIS. Josh said he is “working closely with GIS and Mike Vander Sanden” and that once data are imported and analyzed the county intends to produce plans for “multiple towns” in batches rather than 1-at-a-time. Mike Vander Sanden (GIS staff) is the staff member identified as leading the mapping work.
Committee members asked whether already-completed 2050 municipal plans would be updated to match the 2060 schedule. Scott (staff member) and Josh said municipalities that have online access to the county’s plan database can update their local plans to 2060 if they request it; otherwise, staff will update them when the municipality next requests county assistance. Josh noted Farmington and the city of Hartford are already being prepared to the 2060 horizon while West Bend and Kewaskum remain on the 2050 schedule for now.
On timing, Josh said GIS analysis will shift into a more intensive phase in August, when staff expect “to be able to kinda shift gears and open that whole can of worms” as crash data are run through county tools. He told the committee the intention is to produce multiple town plans in batches once the initial analyses are complete.
The committee did not take formal action on the items presented but asked staff to continue work on the county plan and to coordinate town-level updates.
Looking ahead, staff said the county’s master project spreadsheet — which ties planning, repaving and construction projects together — has been updated and will be used to sequence the county 2060 planning work.
