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• Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page IV.B-16 • Forward Inc. Landfill 2018 Expansion Project Impact B.3. Potential Traffic Collision Impacts. (New Impact) PHA conducted a traffic collision review to identify traffic collision hotspots near the Forward • Landfill site. Based on collision records obtained from SWITRS (Statewide Integrated Traffic . Records System) for the past three years (2015, 2016 and 2107), there were 9 reported collisions along Austin Road between Arch Road and East French Road. All of them occurred during 2015 and 2016, and none in 2017. Most reported collisions occurred at or near the intersection with East French Camp Road or Arch Road. Table IV.B-9 shows the past reported collision in • the area. Austin Road between Arch Road and East French Camp Road is a 2-lane rural road with a design capacity for about 12,500 vehicles per day operating at acceptable LOS according to the San Joaquin County General Plan. As the daily 2,100 daily traffic volume count collected at a • point north of Forward landfill, which is well below its design capacity, and there is a limited number of cross streets and driveways, Austin Road does not appear to have the potential for a traffic collision hotspot. With the project's additional traffic, Austin Road would still be far below capacity. Therefore, Project impacts to potential traffic collisions would be less than significant. Table IV.B-9 Study Area Traffic Collision Review 2015 2016 2017 Austin Road (between Arch Rd. and Austin Rd. 4 5 0 Arch Road(between Kingsley Rd. and Austin Rd. 6 9 0 • E.French Camp Road(between Austin Rd and SR 99 4 9 1 • Source:SWITRS 2015,2016,and 2017 data Impact B.4. Queuing at Landfill Entrance (Same As 2013 EIR Impact B.3): The effect of the proposed project on the on-site entrance facilities (driveway and scales) is • discussed below, based on the 2018 update of the transportation study, which found that the • 2018 Expansion Project queueing impacts would be similar to those described in the 2013 EIR. PHA (2018) conducted a queuing analysis to evaluate if there is sufficient storage area within the site to accommodate trucks waiting to be processed. The Landfill has two weighing scales • located at the end of a long and straight drive aisle about 2,340 feet away from the entrance • gate. Based on field observation, trucks driving from Austin Road can go straight through to the scale without having to stop at the gate. According to Forward Landfill staff, each truck requires approximately 60 seconds to be processed at the scales. One scale is always in • operation, and a second scale will open during busy periods or as needed. At a length of 2,340 • feet between the entrances to the scales, the drive aisle can accommodate 78 trucks at one time assuming an average 30 feet long per truck. No truck queuing was observed during a May 2018 morning field observation at the site.