The City of Palm Coast is currently in the process of conducting its Citywide Traffic Count Study, a biennial initiative aimed at collecting essential data to enhance traffic management and plan for future development within the city.
Residents may have noticed black tubing stretched across major roadways, extending across multiple lanes. These are traffic counting tubes, strategically placed to collect traffic data. The city commenced its traffic count efforts in Week 1, starting on October 9. There was a brief pause in the traffic counts last week due to the Octoberfest celebrations. Week 2 began this week and there will be one more week of traffic counting scheduled for next week.
This vital data collection is required by the Land Development Code and plays a crucial role in establishing a baseline for traffic volume, helping evaluate the impacts of new developments on our road network. It aids in making informed decisions about road improvements and future developments, ensuring the continued efficient functioning of our city’s road infrastructure.
In the coming weeks, there may be a handful of additional counts at various locations, primarily for the purpose of recounting due to broken tubes or the need to adjust the placement of the devices to ensure accurate data collection.
The City of Palm Coast appreciates the understanding and cooperation of its residents during this traffic count study. Your involvement and support are essential in ensuring the continued growth and development of our community while maintaining our high standards of safety and quality of life.
For any inquiries or further information about the Citywide Traffic Count program, please reach out to Phong Nguyen, Senior Transportation Planner, at: [email protected].
JimboXYZ says
They have to figure out how they’re going to charge each & everyone of us a rate to pay for road, new & repaved as usual.
Laurel says
If I could legally go up and slap someone and get away with it, it would be traffic engineers.
Dennis C Rathsam says
We dont need black tubes to tell us that theres a traffic problem. We all live through it everyday! The powers that be just turn there heads, and build more homes. More wasted money…..Looks like the blind leading the blind. There are more complaints about over building and traffic on this form for years now. The mayor reads, but does not act. Now they throw you a bone, with this study…. Ill bet dollars to donuts, nothing will be done. Its all smoke & mirrors.
Mr Citizen says
Agreed. Ray Charles could see the shit show traffic has already become over the past number of years.
Jp says
At what cost? Never tell the taxpayers how much something is costing the city which results in the citizens paying for it. How about instead of doing a study, allocate the appropriate funds to fix the roads. Gas is higher in Palm Coast than it is Saint Augustine or Daytona. I have a great idea, let’s build another storage facility, or dollar general.
CELIA PUGLIESE says
150,000 i think read somewhere.
ban the GOP says
One hand washes the other, im sure a big donor owns road surveys so they throw them a bone after support. Kinda like the radioactive roads to help one of rons big donors get rid of the toxic waste legally. or the migrant flights using rons buddys airplanes.
RW says
We need a completely independent traffic study. A traffic study that would be honest about our very overtaxed road system in Palm Coast. Our traffic is unbearable. Stop building until you can get the traffic situation addressed.
T.L. says
I say fix the roads we have, all the collapsing in the neighborhoods! And for the love of anything holy, please do not tear up all the roads at the same time, traffic is bad enough. I don’t know why they need to block half of Belle Terre every day for weeks on end! Do it at night. Some people have to drive around palm coast for a living. It’s a nightmare!
Stan says
Let’s start construction on more Storage centers on 100, 3 car washes on 100, a BJ’s on 100, more retail/foodservice on 100…but let’s wait a few years after completion to even think of putting in another lane on 100 to ease traffic.
Took over 3 years to put in a right turn lane on N/B Belle Terre and 100 after Starbucks Aldi’s. Tractor Supply and Taco Bell was built.
City has no plans to plan……
Stranger says
Stop complaining these are the people you voted for, live with it.
Palm Coast Citizen says
Fixing roads costs money, and if it’s not currently in the budget, the city needs documentation of need beyond “Some folks were posting in the comment section that traffic sucks.”
Traffic lags behind revenue to widen roads and turn lanes. Be a little patient. Then again, once it’s better, it will get worse. That’s how development of a growing city seems to work.
You can’t tell propery owners not to build what is there. It’s not the City building storage units, stores, and whatever else.
Flatsflyer says
The city has been collecting a “special ax” since 2008 (16 years) for straightening and wiring Old Kings Road south of the Parkway. What has this money been spent on, parks, flowers, vehicles, employee bonuses? How much has been collected? I think the need for a forensic audit should be the highest priority to simply apprehend the city officials responsible for this fiasco.
The Voice Of Reason says
Belle Terre north of SR 100 And SR 100 from Bunnell east to Flagler Beach should be 3 travel lanes in each direction. Long ago I heard Palm Coast is a master planned community. What a fairy tale. Turn lanes off major thoroughfare roads are rare. Florida does everything on the cheap, except advertise for more tourists. Sprawl and road rage grow by the day here.
Em says
Hey Palm Coast…get a grip and put in another Walmart! And for God’s sake, not on 100. Plenty of land up near Bunnell…got a lot you can buy.
Was 12th in line at pharmacy only to find they didn’t have my phoned in prescription! Day before Thanksgiving is a joke and Black Friday will be worse!!
How many years will it take to get more than one road (PC Pky) in and out of PC???
Comments go nowhere and deaf ears on the board can’t hear, let alone read.
Oh and that hotel going up in the middle of Flagler Beach… that’s going to be an only walk-in-town-from-Jacksonville