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County releases Choleota Road corridor analysis, recommends four-lane build with targeted roundabout to address safety; $10.9M funding gap noted
Summary
Orange County presented a formal corridor and ICE (Intersection Control Evaluation) study April 22 recommending four-lane upgrades on Choleota Road with a single-lane roundabout at Longboat Lane to reduce crashes and add pedestrian facilities.
Orange County public-works staff presented a multi-year corridor study and a Federal Highway Administration-aligned Intersection Control Evaluation (ICE) for Choleota Road (State Road 50 north to Lake Pickett Road) on April 22, recommending four-lane widening with a roundabout at Longboat Lane and targeted intersection upgrades to improve safety, add pedestrian facilities and reduce high-crash hot spots.
What staff presented - Scope and analysis: County engineers and consultants reviewed crash history, performed ICE stage 1'2 evaluations, modelled multimodal demand and ran traffic simulations (including Synchro) for the corridor's major intersections. The study modeled near-term and 20-year design horizons and reviewed a broad set of alternatives (more than 1,000 scenario permutations) including signals, multi-lane roundabouts, two-lane treatments and a —bow-tie— configuration at one…
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