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Comprehensive Plan, City of Paris, Texas Future Land Use LOOP 286 CORRIDORS Loop 286 Highway functions as a major arterial roadway, providing both regional access and local arterial access. Major land uses such as the airport, the Paris industrial park areas and future growth areas are served by traffic that routes through this primary roadway. The Texas Department of Transportation measures the Average Annual Daily Traffic (AADT) for major roadways. The traffic counts are derived primarily from 24-hour traffic volumes recorded with portable traffic counters. Heavy commercial volumes were obtained from visual or machine vehicle classification counts. The AADT counts for the Loop 286 are cited in Table 53. ~ ` ~ T ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ , ~ ~ ~ ~ = ~ ationR",' ~ 5 7era~ - n~al b~ai~y Tx~.. ~ ~ ;rv ~ m U.S. Hw . 271 (North) to F.M. Hw . 195 21,000 F.M. Hw . 195 to U.S. Hw . 82 (East) 22,000 U.S. Hw . 82 (East) to U.S. Hw . 271 (South) 12,900 U.S. Hw . 271 (South) to F.M. Hw . 905 5,600 F.M. Hwy. 905 (Jefferson Rd) to State Hw . 24 4,800 State Hw . 24 to F.M. Hw . 137 7,600 F.M. Hw . 137 to U.S. Hw . 82 (West) 5,900 U.S. Hw . 82 (West) to F.M. Hw . 79 9,900 F.M. Hwy. 79 to U.S. Hwy. 271 (North) 17,200 Source: Texas Department of Transportation, 1999 District Highway Traffic Map - Paris District Development along Loop 286 Highway must be carefully planned for efficient funneling of traffic onto local and collector roads. Further, roads and driveways intersecting the local arterial streets and major collectors that provide links to the loop must be designed in a manner that will minimize traffic conflicts and maximize access to new development and major land uses. ACCESS CONTROL Just as the design of a roadway helps to move traffic efficiently, controlling access to the roadway system can help do the same. The governing body of a municipality by ordinance may extend to the extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) of the municipality the application of municipal ordinances adopted under the subdivision regulations relating to access to public roads. The lack of an adequate access control policy or plan increases the probability of having traffic hazards and increased traffic congestion. Traffic hazards and traffic congestion reduce the capacity of the roadway to accommodate the traffic volumes for which it is designed. Traffic congestion and traffic hazards increase the pressure to widen roadways, which requires additional public funds. Roadway capacity can be increased or decreased in a number of ways. The method utilized most frequently to increase capacity is to widen a road to provide additional travel lanes. In some instances, however, it is not feasible to add additional travel lanes due to land uses on either side S:V8288\WKlfmal rcpm 2-01.dWC 39 BWR