Would reducing the speed limit to 45 mph affect the amount of traffic that would use the corridor? Could it eliminate the need for future expansion?
Most traffic using WIS 164 is local (only about 1,000 trips per day travel through the study corridor). As a result, the ability to divert this local traffic to other routes is negligible. The traffic study indicates that between 10 and 33 percent of the traffic on WIS 164 may move to other routes if the posted speed limit corridor-wide were reduced to 45 mph. Reducing the posted speed limit within the corridor can delay, but cannot eliminate, the ultimate need to expand WIS 164. Q: Adding capacity to the WIS 164 corridor would only benefit trucks and other through traffic, not local traffic. A: Adding travel lanes or constructing spot improvements to WIS 164 (like passing lanes or paved shoulders), will benefit both local and through traffic. Comments from the public cite the difficulty in turning left from WIS 164 against oncoming traffic Heavy volumes also make it difficult to access WIS 164 from side roads and driveways. The addition of passing and/or through lanes will orient high
