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Eagle Point street plan dated Council will spend $10,000 to redo it EAGLE POINT -- The City Council voted Tuesday to spend $10,000 on a transportation model that will predict street needs and traffic patterns in the region's fastest-growing city. The city's two-year-old transportation plan isn't complete, yet the information is already outdated. Hundreds of new homes have been built; the state has rerouted Highway 62, creating new ways for travelers to enter Eagle Point; and a shopping center is being proposed in what's becoming the busiest part of town, says David Hussell, the city administrator. Hardey Engineering of Medford will analyze traffic for 2000, 2007, 2012 and 2117, submit the information to Rogue Valley Council of Governments for its master transportation plan, and take a new look at two key intersections with Main Street -- Royal and Shasta. "We can keep building on it through the years, adding a new roadway as it's built or a new housing development," says John Hardey of Hardey Engineering. "We can make the adjustment and tell very quickly the impact that a development would have on the system," Hardey says. A hot spot in Eagle Point is Main and Royal, where traffic backs up twice a day when buses and parents deliver and pick up children at the four schools near the intersection. The crowded, two-lane car bridge over Butte Creek at this intersection is scheduled to be replaced by 2003. Another traffic concern is near the Eagle Point Golf Course, the fastest-growing part of the city. Plans call for Albertson's, 40 condominiums and an upscale housing development. Plus the state is realigning Alta Vista, a city thoroughfare, to correct the dangerous Alta Vista intersection on Highway 62. The transportation model will help the city predict the future, the city administrator says. "This is a working tool to address the impact that development has on our streets," Hussell says. "We know there are other subdivisions out there waiting to happen." Mail Tribune Copyright � The Mail Tribune 1999, Medford, Oregon USA