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report as a courtesy.”
The Nu-Metrics Traffic Analyzer study, requested by the town in Judy, was conducted by the Culpeper District Traffic Engineering Section of VDOT from 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 4 to 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 5.
Data collection units were placed at three locations in the town of Washington: Route T628, 0.15 miles north of Route 211-522 Business; on Route 211-522 Business, 0.82 mile east of Route 211-522; and Route 211-522 Business, 0.24 mile north of Route 211-522. A total of 3,319 vehicles were registered during the 24-hour period.
Mayor Leggett noted that the report did not include motorcycles because the detectors are small and look like imperfections in the road, so riders tend to avoid them.
The VDOT report’s summary letter noted that at the TRoute 628 location, which registered a total of 734 cars, 66 percent of westbound traffic was traveling between 20 and 29 mph, and that 55 percent of westbound traffic was travelling at 25 to 34 mph. For the 211 Business sites, the VDOT summary notes the combined 2,500 cars were traveling at a “speed range between 25 mph and 34 mph.”
When the council opened the floor for pubic comment, Washington resident Brandon Fowler, presented a one-page summary to the members and the audience. Fowler’s analysis of the VDOT traffic report focused on a statistic not singled out in the summary letter:
93.5%