Excerpt from Thoroughfare Plan for the City of Lumberton

In January of 1989, a formal agreement was made between the City of Lumberton and the Statewide Planning Branch of the North Carolina Department of Transportation to begin an update of the 1978 Lumberton Thoroughfare Plan. The resulting Lumberton Thoroughfare Plan (refer to Figure 3, page 13) was developed using the thoroughfare planning principles described in Chapter IV of this report.

The study is based on the traditional four step planning process: trip generation; trip distribution; mode choice; and trip assignment. The study involved two repetitions of this process. First, socioeconomic data, traffic count data, and geometric street data collected in 1989 were used to simulate the area's 1989 traffic patterns. When the traffic model accurately reproduced the traffic counts, the socioeconomic data and the external station volumes were projected to the design year (2010) and applied to the same four step process to forecast future traffic patterns. The future traffic patterns were then compared to existing capacities and possible solutions were tested.

This report documents the findings of the study and the resulting recommendations (refer to Figure 4, page It includes recommendations for thoroughfare cross-sections, cost estimates and benefit evaluations for the recommended improvements, and recommendations for plan implementation.

Following several informational meetings with the Planning Director and the City Council, a public hearing was held on November 13, 1995. The Lumberton Thoroughfare Plan was unanimously adopted following the hearing.

Initiative for plan implementation will rest largely with the policy boards and citizens of the area. Highway needs throughout the State exceed the available funding. Therefore local areas should aggressively pursue funding for desired projects.

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