The Draft Transportation Plan/Environmental Assessment presents four alternatives, including a no-action and a preferred alternative, for rehabilitating the culturally significant Going-to-the-Sun Road and other secondary roads and turnouts, reducing traffic congestion, and facilitating visitor movement to, from, and within Glacier National Park. Each alternative includes strategies for road and turnout rehabilitation, implementation of a public transit system, and traffic management. Under the no-action alternative, no significant changes or new environmental effects would occur. Under the preferred alternative (A) and other action alternatives (B and C), proposed road and turnout improvements, provision of a public transit system, and implementation of traffic management actions would enhance the overall visitor experience because safety, ride quality, and traffic conditions would improve. Road and turnout rehabilitation activities would cause minor short-term inconveniences for visitors and would involve removal of roadside bedrock (10 cubic yards under A and 985 cubic yards under B and C) and disturbance of soils and vegetation (60 acres under A and 180 acres under B and C).


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    Title :

    Draft Transportation Plan/Environmental Assessment


    Publication date :

    1989


    Size :

    168 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English