REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS
Convenience Uses
| Traffic Impact Analysis for Proposed Wendy`s Restaurant, Brattleboro, Vermont |
| Conley Associates, Inc. conducted traffic impact analysis for a proposed Wendy`s restaurant with drive through window to be located on US Route 5 in Brattleboro, Vermont. The proposed site is located south of the Route 9/Route 5 rotary and north of the intersection of US Route 5 at Black Mountain Road. The intersection analysis concentrated on the US Route 9/Route 5 rotary and was reviewed by the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans). The impact of the proposed Wendy`s Restaurant was determined following VTrans methodologies and the results were presented to the local development review board, where it was approved after only one appearance. Conley Associates, Inc. worked with VTrans to develop an appropriate mitigation for the proposed development. The proponent would provide the land (or an easement) for a sidewalk that would complete pedestrian access to this area. |
| Site Redevelopment, Auburn, Massachusetts |
| Conley Associates, Inc. calculated the traffic impacts associated with a dramatic site redevelopment in Auburn, Massachusetts. An existing office/retail building would be razed and a bank branch would be located elsewhere on the site. The proposed site layout, including parking supply and three drive-through lanes, was reviewed and the traffic impacts were calculated. Improvements to mitigate traffic impacts include the modification of the site layout to accommodate connections to adjacent parcels and parking areas in order to minimize unnecessary travel on adjacent roadways. |
| State and Local Permitting for Vermont Federal Credit Union, St. Albans, Vermont |
| Conley Associates, Inc. performed the transportation permitting efforts associated with the Vermont Federal Credit Union site in St. Albans, Vermont. A detailed traffic impact study following Vermont Agency of Transportation guidelines was completed for the property that abuts and has direct access from US Route 7. The traffic analysis accounted for significant changes anticipated in the signalization and roadway configuration in the area as well as the traffic anticipated from a number of big box retail developments nearby. The traffic impact study was used for both local permitting and ACT 250 permitting for the site. |
| Proposed Olive Garden Restaurant, Marlborough, Massachusetts |
| As a sub-consultant to H.W. Lochner, Conley Associates, Inc. analyzed the potential traffic impacts of a proposed 7,405 square feet (177 seat) Olive Garden Restaurant to be located on Donald J. Lynch Boulevard, across from a proposed 100,000 square-foot retail development that Conley Associates, Inc. was also permitting in Marlborough, Massachusetts. One issue of concern in this study was the Bigelow Street neighborhood, which was expected to receive approximately nine percent of the trips generated by the proposed development based on the retail trip distribution developed in the area. However, Conley Associates, Inc. determined that significantly less traffic uses those neighborhood streets than estimated in the other studies. In addition to analyzing the potential impacts of the proposed development, Conley Associates, Inc. also assisted in the signal timing plans of the site driveway intersection, where specific attention was paid to expected lengthy queues. The Olive Garden Restaurant site was permitted and is currently in operation. |
| Panera Bread, Waltham, Massachusetts |
| Conley Associates, Inc. performed a trip generation analysis due to the redevelopment of a KB Toy Store into a Panera Bread location within a strip mall. Conley Associates, Inc. determined the impact on parking in the strip mall parking lot, and the traffic impact on local roadways during the weekday morning peak hour and the midday peak hour. |
| Proposed Subway Restaurant, Waltham, Massachusetts |
| Conley Associates, Inc. assessed the traffic and parking impacts associated with a proposed 1,700 square foot Subway to be located in the River City Shopping Plaza on River Street in Waltham. Conley Associates, Inc. determined the trip generation of the project during the weekday midday, weekday afternoon, and Saturday midday peak periods. Conley Associates, Inc. conducted a parking occupancy study at the shopping plaza over the course of a typical weekday to determine the availability of parking during the weekday midday peak period, which was of critical importance to the City of Waltham. Conley Associates, Inc. determined the parking lot was in fact, under utilized, and that there would be more than adequate parking to accommodate the proposed 24 shared parking spaces for the Subway. |