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GATEWAY CHURCH
Religious / North Richland Hills

The services of DeShazo Group were retained by Gateway Church to analyze the traffic characteristics on Davis Boulevard (FM 1938) in North Richland Hills at the Starnes Road/Rumfield Road intersection and at the church driveway. The purpose of this effort was to evaluate the existing turning maneuvers at the intersections and determine whether the existing lane markings could be modified to address the issue of northbound motorists accessing the church driveway by traveling the wrong direction in the southbound left-turn bay that served Rumfield Road.

DeShazo commissioned turning movement counts in order to evaluate the conditions.  Based upon the volumes and projected queue analysis, the following modifications to the existing roadway striping was recommended.  

• Re-stripe the southbound, left-turn bay from Davis Boulevard to Rumfield Road to provide 100 feet of queue storage plus approximately 100 feet of lane transition to accommodate the projected maximum 95th percentile peak queue of approximately 80 feet (about four vehicles).
• Re-stripe the remainder of the southbound, left-turn bay as a two-way, continuous center left-turn lane to provide approximately 67 feet of storage/transition to accommodate the northbound, left-turn maneuver (three to four vehicles in queue) into the church driveway.

​The calculated 95th percentile queue into the church driveway for the current northbound, left-turn demand, averages less than one vehicle during all time periods.  Hence, the proposed configuration can accommodate future traffic growth as well.