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Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page IV.B-1 <br /> Forward Inc. Landfill 2018 Expansion Project <br /> B. TRANSPORTATION AND CIRCULATION <br /> This evaluation of transportation and circulation updates the 2013 Forward Landfill Expansion <br /> Project EIR's environmental setting and impacts analyses to address the proposed changes to <br /> the Expansion Project.This section is based on a Transportation Impact Analysis (TIA) <br /> conducted for the 2018 Project for Forward,Inc.by PHA Transportation Consultants (PHA <br /> 2018), which was reviewed by County Public Works Departipent traffic engineers, and is <br /> included as Appendix E of this SEIR. The impacts and mitigations in this section replace those <br /> in Section IV.B of the 2013 EIR. <br /> Setting <br /> This section describes the traffic-related environmental setting in the vicinity of the project site. <br /> The background condition of existing traffic conditions is the"setting" for CEQA purposes. <br /> This condition assumes operation of the existing Forward Landfill for the life of the existing <br /> permits (see Project Description for a full discussion of permitted development). The following <br /> is a description of existing conditions. <br /> Existing Roads <br /> The street network providing access and circulation to the area and the project site consists of <br /> Austin Road, Mariposa Road,Arch Road, East French Camp Road,and State Route 99.A brief <br /> description of the streets is provided below. <br /> Austin Road <br /> Austin Road provides direct access to and from the Forward Landfill site. Austin Road is a <br /> two-lane, north-south rural road that extends from Mariposa Road to Lathrop in the south. <br /> Along the segment between Arch Road and East French Camp Road,there are a few dirt access <br /> roads from Austin Road to service the adjacent farmland, and paved access driveways to <br /> Forward Landfill and the California HealthCare Service facility. A 2018 daily traffic volume <br /> count conducted on Austin Road at a point north of the Forward Landfill showed about 2,100 <br /> vehicles per day on that roadway segment. According to the San Joaquin County roadway <br /> classification and design capacity standard, a minor arterial/collector road such as Austin Road <br /> has the ability to carry about 12,500 vehicles per day at an acceptable Level-of-Service "C". <br /> There are no posted speed limit signs along the segment. Field observations indicated the <br /> average travel speed along the segment is above 50 mph. <br /> Arch Road <br /> Arch Road is an east-west running arterial road connecting Austin Road,State Route 99, and the <br /> Stockton Airport. West of SR 99 the Road is called Arch-Airport Road. The segment between <br /> SR 99 and Austin Road varies between two and four lanes, and primarily serves agricultural, <br /> warehousing,and industrial developments near the study area. There are recent road-widening <br /> improvements and signalization near Arch Road's intersections with Logistic Drive and <br />