75B - PH - EIR - BRISTOL FROM CIVIC CENTER TO WASHINGTON

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Bristol Street is a north -south arterial road through the City of Santa Ana that connects to the Garden Grove Freeway and the San Diego Freeway. Bristol Street is generally believed to as a supplementary north -south access through Santa Ana for peak hour motorists who choose to avoid the heavily traveled Newport Freeway (State Highway 55) which parallels Bristol Street one to three miles to the east. Two major traffic generators significantly affect traffic volumes on Bristol Street. Rancho Santiago Community College is located at the southwest corner of Bristol Street and 17th Street within the project area. The South _. Coast Plaza Regional Shopping Center is located approximately two miles south of Warner Avenue at the junction of Bristol Street and the San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405). Other significant traffic contributors include Santa Ana's scattered industrial areas as well as the city, county, and federal government facilities and corporate and financial offices in the Downtown core .� to the east of Bristol Street. Future traffic volumes, for the target year 2006, were developed using historical and projected traffic, and development and population data obtained from the City of Santa Ana. Comparison of past and present traffic volumes along Bristol Street revealed the growth in traffic to be approximately one (1) percent per year. In the Five -Year Trau=ortation Study Update to 1990 prepared by Basmaciyan- Darnell, Inc., June 1985, the projected increase in _ area -wide traffic volumes south of the project area was anticipated to be greater than one (1) percent per year. The volume of traffic on Bristol Street north of Warner Avenue is, however, consistent with a one (1) percent per _ year growth rate. It was assumed that in the year 2006 all roads would be built out to their ultimate widths, as designated on the Orange Coua General Plan - Master Plan of Arterial Highways Component, County of Orange, Environmental Management Agency, 1982. Future Without Widening Evaluation of the operating conditions Bristol Street would experience under future year 2006 traffic volumes was based upon the same methodology as was described under the Section B above. Table 3 summarizes the project traffic volumes on each link with the corresponding levels of service for "no build" and 'build" conditions. -- Under the "no- project" alternative, each link of Bristol Street from Memory Lane to Warner Avenue would experience a Level of Service of "F". Traffic - on Bristol Street would be extremely congested and motorists would experience a great deal of delay. I -14 75B -37