IPI June 2004

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Neighborhood MeetingWhitney Way Hammersley
Road(web version)5/31/07 Toki Middle School
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Tonights Agenda

• Review History
• Review role Whitney Way plays in Citys
  Transportation system
• Review Data
• Review ideas options
• Receive comments for policymakers to consider
• Overall objective consensus on a plan next
  steps

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Christmas Day 2006
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Christmas Day 20061015 pm
MV 4000 no 7171972 MPD Narrative Unit 1 was
reportedly racing a second, as yet unidentified
vehicle on Hammersley EB prior to collision, Unit
2 was traveling in left lane of Whitney Way SB,
Unit 1 ran Stop sign at Whitney and crashed into
passenger side of Unit 2. Both vehicles came to
rest against embankment at SE corner of
intersection. Unit 1s back seat passenger
Rikita Lee ejected and died at scene. Unit 2
operator Brian McNally died from injuries
afterward.
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Second Person Dies From Crash Injuries Wisconsin
State Journal LOCAL B3 Wednesday, January
3, 2007Ed Treleven and Karen Rivedal Wisconsin
State Journal A second person died late last
week from injuries received in an
alcohol-related, Christmas Day crash on the West
Side that killed a Madison woman, police
said. Brian P. McNally, 26, of Waunakee, died
Friday night at UW Hospital, Madison police
reported Tuesday. McNally was the driver of a BMW
that collided with a Chevrolet Impala driven by
Ian M. Bowers at about 10 p.m. at Whitney Way and
Hammersley Road. Rikita L. Lee, a passenger in
Bowers' car, also was killed. Lee, 21, was thrown
from the car and pronounced dead at UW Hospital
on Dec. 25, police said. Bowers, 19, a soldier in
the U.S. Army who was home in Madison while on
leave from Iraq, faces two tentative charges of
homicide by drunken driving. He appeared in Dane
County Circuit Court on Tuesday where bail was
set at 20,000.
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Soldier Charged, Faces 60 Years In 2 Crash
Deaths The Capital Times METRO C1 Friday,
January 5, 2007By Mike Miller The Capital
Times A Madison soldier on leave from Iraq was
charged Thursday with first-degree reckless
homicide, among other charges, for an alleged
drunken driving crash that killed two people and
injured two others on Christmas night. A criminal
complaint filed against Ian Bowers, 19, quotes
witnesses as saying that Bowers was racing
another car just before the accident at the
intersection of South Whitney Way and Hammersley
Road on Dec. 25 about 1015 p.m. Bowers ran a
stop sign at the intersection and his car smashed
into one driven by Brian McNally, 26. One of
Bowers' passengers, Rikita Lee, 21, died in the
collision. McNally, who suffered severe head
injuries, died four days later at a Madison
hospital. The complaint quotes a woman who had
been driving east on Hammersley Road as saying
that two cars came up quickly behind her and
began to tailgate her, and when she slowed and
moved to the right they sped past. One was a
later identified as Bowers' silver 2000 Chevrolet
Impala and the other a darker car with Minnesota
license plates.
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April 2007
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Police Licenseless Man Causes Crash Wisconsin
State Journal LOCAL B3 Wednesday, April
11, 2007 A man without a valid driver's license
drove through a stop sign on the West Side,
hitting a truck and causing it to roll over,
Madison police said. Robert Dale, 25, didn't stop
at a stop sign on Hammersley Road and hit Paul
Wickman, 32, who was driving north on Whitney
Way, police said. Wickman was taken to a local
hospital with non-life threatening injuries. None
of the three people involved in the crash was
wearing a seat belt, according to the Madison
Police Department. It was Dale's second offense
of driving without a valid license, police said,
and Wickman's license had been revoked.
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April 2007
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Dangerous Intersection in West Madison - Whitney
Way/Hammersley
The intersection has been called the most
dangerous intersection in Madison.11 The
PetitionSite.com
The Capital Times, May 31, 2007
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Next Crash History in context Whitney Ways
role in the Street system Details of the
intersection crashes
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Crash Historyin context
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Crash Historyin context
In 2006 214 intersections had more crashes than
Whitney Way and Hammersley Rd
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Crash History
when the crash rate is considered
About 30 intersections have a worse crash problem
when compared by rate
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Street Typology
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Whitney Way Hammersley
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Who uses Whitney Way?
McKenna
Raymond Rd
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Whitney Way Hammersley
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ExistingConditions
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Crash Data
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Crash DetailsWW Hammersley
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Locations of Residence
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Patterns?WW Hammersley
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Patterns?WW Hammersley
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Patterns?WW Hammersley
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Does weather contribute?WW Hammersley
NO-65 occurred on dry pavement
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Circumstances
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Actions to Date
Recently taken

• Pavement Markings modified
• Trees and brush trimmed
• No Parking installed
• Stop sign size increased
• Stop signs were double indicated
• Additional enforcement provided

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Ideas Generated to Date
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Ideas Generated to Date
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Typical 4-leg intersectionWW Hammersley

• Eight merge and eight diverge conflict points.
  Collisions associated with merging/diverging
  movements are rear-end and sideswipe collisions.
• Sixteen crossing conflict points. Of these, 12
  crossing movements are associated with
  left-turning vehicles. Collisions associated with
  this crossing movement occur when a vehicle
  attempting a left turn is struck by traffic
  passing through the intersection on another
  approach. The remaining four crossing movements
  involve through movements on two adjacent
  approaches. Angle collisions may occur as a
  result of this type of conflict.

need to eliminate opportunities for people to
get into trouble
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Recall the patternsWW Hammersley
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Directional median opening
Restricted movements
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Directional median opening
Permitted Movements
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Directional median opening

• Eliminates 19/26 crashes 73
• Estimated 50,000
• Active traffic control device that does not
  depend upon signs or enforcement to be
  effective
• Only diverts lt100 vehicles in the pm peak hour
• Also may address the NB LT problem leaving the
  roadway

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Intersection Turning Movement Counts5-6pm
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Eliminated movement
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Where do people go?
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Questions?