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| Transportation
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will the County deal with a rapidly growing population and its ever
increasing need for better transportation? |
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| RCIP
Public Notices |
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| CETAP
General Information: |
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| CETAP
Internal Corridors: |
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| Why
do we need transportation improvements? |
|  People
have different impressions about growth. Some are concerned
that it is happening too fast, and that it should slow down.
Others think that growth provides opportunities for additional
and improved jobs, an enhanced economic base, better services,
and an overall healthier county in the future. The current
predictions are that Western Riverside County's population
will grow from 1.2 million to about 2.0 million over the next
20 years. Making wise choices in where we locate transportation
facilities will support the land use plans and will promote
growth in the most logical areas.
We can also predict
how bad traffic may be in the future by entering the growth
projections into a computer model that simulates traffic flows.
The results show that major increases in traffic can be expected
on our freeways and other roadways. Here are some examples
of predicted increases between now and 2020: |
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| Examples
of predicted increases between now and 2020 |
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SR-91 at the Orange County Line-a 95% increase over
the current daily traffic volume
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SR-60/I-215 in Box Springs-a 60% increase to about
300,000 vehicles per day-this is about 30% more than
SR-91 carries today into Orange County
- I-15
in the Murrieta/Temecula area-a 90% increase
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I-215 in Murrieta-a 130% increase
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I-215 near March Air Reserve Base-a 100% increas
- I-10
in the Beaumont area-a 150% increase
- SR-79
in the French Valley area-a 240% increase
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| Even with the
transportation improvements we have currently funded, the computer
models indicate that a typical trip in Western Riverside County will
take about 40 percent longer in 2020 than it takes now. In other words,
a 20-minute trip now could take almost 30 minutes in 20 years, if
we take no further action. We cannot afford to let that occur because
it will hurt our economy and will negatively affect our quality of
life. |
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| What
is CETAP? |
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an effort to improve the quality of life for current and future
residents, the County of Riverside and the Riverside County
Transportation Commission (RCTC) have embarked on a comprehensive
planning process to determine future placement of buildings,
roads, and open spaces for Riverside County. This process
has been named the Riverside County Integrated Project (RCIP)
and will create three plans that are interrelated. The plans
include a General Plan for land use and housing; a Multiple
Species Habitat Conservation Plan (MSHCP) to determine what
land should be set aside as open space and maintained for
plant and animal conservation; and the Community and Environmental
Transportation Acceptability Process (CETAP) identifying improvements
for highways and transit systems. For many years, transportation,
land use, and environmental planning have occurred independently.
This combined effort seeks to create plans that are coherent
and consistent.
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main purposes of CETAP are to: |
- Identify
and set aside areas for major transportation facilities
(both highway and transit) that will be necessary
to support the future growth in Western Riverside
County
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Ensure that the transportation infrastructure will
be in place to foster the economy of Riverside County
and provide access for our citizens to jobs, schools,
shopping, and other daily activities
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| Due to the
fast pace of development in Riverside County, opportunities are being
lost to preserve land for regional transportation facilities. Therefore,
an important goal of CETAP is to complete environmental documentation
to allow for the preservation of right-of-way for regional transportation
facilities. By doing this, everyone will know where the major corridors
are going to be and will be able to plan around them. |
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| Terms
you should know |
- Corridor
- A general geographic area linking origins and destinations
between which people and goods travel. The four corridors
being studied as part of CETAP were listed earlier.
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Alternative - A major transportation option for carrying
people and goods within that corridor. An alternative
may define a particular mode of travel (e.g. transit
or highway) or an alignment (transit, highway, or
both together).
- Alignment
- The physical line followed by an alternative. Alignments
may provide for either transit and/or highway travel,
depending on the alternative. Some alignments follow
existing roadways while others are in undeveloped
areas.
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Segment - Sometimes alignments need to be broken up
into subsections so that variations or options can
be examined in those subsections. These subsections
are called "segments." Segments can be mixed and matched
in various combinations to form a complete alignment.
This may help in the development of alignments that
avoid or minimize impacts to communities and the environment
as much as possible
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