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| THE CORPORATION OF THE
| CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM

ae | MEMORANDUM 7 | _ a

TO: = Be Kirk | October 15, 1985 oe a ere

City Administrator pe ee
FROM: F.E. Peters, P. Eng., | | |

City Engineer |

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Subject: Proposed G.V.R.D. Traffic Study for Port Coqultiam | ; q: “
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‘Recommendation: . | ! i, a

That thls report be recelved for Information.

Backaround and Comments:

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At the Council! Meeting of October 7, 1985 the Mayor directed |
the Engineer to report on the feasiblilty of thea G.VeRD. doing a |
traffle study for the City. Apparently Ken Cameron agreed fast year :
that the G.V.R.D. might be able to do something for the Clty. My — | a:
recollection of the discussion at that time was that the City was po ne
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interested in having a detalled traftle study of -the Downtown area for ae

the purpose of determining tne tocation and amount of additional my,

traffle capacity which the Clty might require In the future. a
i was not party to the discussions with the GeVeReDe and s0 aim Ce -

not familfar with exactly what they were praposing. However, my own | re
oplateon is that the type of study whlch could be avallabla fram tha | Da

GeVeR.D. would not be suitable for answering the questions the City Pe ahag
Would have. |: base this opinion on the following factors: :
le The GeV«R«D. traffle modal Is designed to predict trips a
os across Municipal boundaries but Is not very accurate In. re eae
= predicting trips between polnats within the City Itself. Poe EE as
a This Is because the road network ts too course and because ee : *
the population zones are too large to predict detalied trips fo
Within a Munictpaltty. | — bo cay
= 2. The staff at the GeV.R«D. ara not traffle operations pe te
. orlented people. Rather they are transportation planners po |
| with modeling expertise. Thay are not really capable of at

: translating the results of a model Into specitle projects. | poo eas
This requiras local knowledge which Is not an Input Into the Pg!
of 7 G.VsRaD, model. ; 7 a eS

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