Comments for “2014 Billings Urban Area Long Range Transportation Plan”
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This road would benefit from a bike lane or at least wider shoulders for a bicycle to ride on away from high speed traffic.
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Elysian road intersects S Frontage Rd at very bad angle. There is very poor visibility to the east because of this. S Frontage has a high speed limit and traffic off of Elysian tends not to stop and make sure nobody is coming. Please realign intersection.
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How about a walking path from town past Riverfront park and continuing on to Blue Creek School. This would allow safer access to the park with out a need for a car and then safer access for kids walking to Blue Creek School.
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Please put in a bike path from town out to Blue Creek School. It would give families more options to go into town or a way for kids to get safely to school if the family is unable to drive or find a ride for them
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Realign Audubon access road at South Billings Blvd. Angle of entry makes it hard for drivers coming out onto S Billings to be able to see traffic coming from the south.
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Please put in left turn arrows going from South Frontage Rd and Midland Rd onto King Ave. People don't yield and pull out in front of vehicles often because of too much traffic and the way Midland curves into intersection around Holiday Inn leaving people confused and unable to interpret what other drivers intentions are.
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Fix stop light to change for traffic in all directions. During low traffic periods light wont turn green when traveling eastbound on S Frontage road across king onto Midland. You have to go into left turn lane and then proceed straight from wrong lane in order to get a green light.
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Please synchronize stop lights near interstate. Traffic backs up when next light a couple hundred yards away turns red just as previous light turns green.
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Blue Creek Road and South Billings Blvd are over capacity and very dangerous with too many access points, blind corners and intersections. This is made more dangerous by pedestrians and bicycles having to compete for space on a narrow road with too many cars for design. Please turn into four lane with turn lanes and fewer access points. At a minimum the speed limit needs to be drastically reduced as an already too high limit is constantly broken.
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Blue Creek Road and South Billings Blvd are over capacity and very dangerous with too many access points, blind corners and intersections. This is made more dangerous by pedestrians and bicycles having to compete for space on a narrow road with too many cars for design. Please turn into four lane with turn lanes and fewer access points. At a minimum the speed limit needs to be drastically reduced as an already too high limit is constantly broken.
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More trails along the ditches would be great.
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Reconstruct underpass to be an overpass. This would allow for more capacity, would get rid of the height restriction (for travel under the structure), and would take stormwater out of the picture.
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Seems to me that this double intersection of 19tt/20th/Monad would be a good place to put in a double roundabout or dog-bone roundabout, and replace to the tightly-spaced signals that exist today.
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Existing 4-way stop can be a mess when there are issues at Rimrock/Zimmerman or at Grand/Zimmerman.
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Is this street ever going to get paved?
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DANGER DANGER! Cars won't stop for pedestrians trying to use crosswalks to get across 13th. There should be a traffic light here.
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The section of Poly Drive from 32nd Street West to Zimmerman Trail needs to be reconstructed to a City arterial standard for the safety of pedestrians, cyclists and motorists. This is a rural section now and transitions to a City section right at 32nd where there is a pedestrian crossing. It is dangerous because traffic is not used to the improved corridor and many Boulder Elementary School students cross here every day. If it were not for the crossing guard, it would not even be safe for anyone to cross and it is fortunate the crossing guard has not been hit. Let's get this section of Poly AND the section from Zimmerman to 38th done at the same time as the need for pedestrian safety is no different in either of these areas.
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Boulder Avenue between Rehberg Lane and 32nd Street West is one of the worst paved pieces of street in the City. While I know that the City would likely need to have the adjacent property owners participate in an SID, this street must be rebuilt with pedestrian facilities to make student access to Boulder Elementary safe. Further, there is no stormwater management on this street and so it is terrible for pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles.
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As this area continues to develop with high density housing, would like to see some accomodation to access MET to the downtown or west end transfer center. Even a pickup closer to Midland/Mullowney would help.
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Left turn lanes needed.
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Please consider creating better 'trail' access on this road/trail from Avenue C through Pioneer Park.
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT let the hospital block off 9th Avenue. This is a key street to get from the east to west (and vice versa) side of 27th and between neighborhoods on either side. The hospital has already closed off a portion of Brodway and a portion of 8th. Do not require 10th to be the ONLY through street proximate to Dehler. I BEG YOU!!
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Please consider a walkway with flashing lights (all the time or able to be activated when someone comes to the crosswalk) OR a HAWK signal. There is a busy crosswalk but traffic isn't obligated to stop. Yet, when they do, there is a potential for pileups since drivers aren't expecting a stop.
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A walking path to connect Grand to Rimrock, would be ideal in this area where there are so many families and small children.
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This area could really use a biking/walking path, seeing of as though there are currently none on this section of Grand, and therefore it is impossible to go for a ride, without hitting a lot of traffic.