Data on Entrance to Franklin Mountain State Park Entrance
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Park visitation has increased in 5 of the last 6 years – FY07 - 4% up FY08 - 23% up FY09 - 22% up FY10 - 7 % down FY11 - 20% up FY12 - 11% up FY12 is the highest visitation recorded with 43,593 accounted visitors (not including volunteers, staff working on daily basis, ARMY and Law enforcement conducting training, etc. etc. – they count towards the traffic estimates) Projecting an average of 12% increase in visitation every year we have the following FY13 48824.16 FY14 54683.0592 FY15 61245.0263 FY16 68594.42946 FY17 76825.761 FY18 86044.85232 FY19 96370.23459 FY20 107934.6627 Our estimations are that approximately 40,000 vehicle s entered and exited the Tom Mays Unit during FY12. That gives us an average of 109 entry-exit vehicles per day. However the average of entry-exit vehicles per week end is 393. TxDOT projections for average daily vehicl e traffic on Trans-Mountain Road passing by the Tom Mays Unit Entrance is 40,000 by 2015. Projecting a yearly increase of 12%, approximately 530 vehicles will be entering/e xiting the Tom Mays Unit on weekends by FY15. Or an average 265-300 on Saturdays during FY15. Comparing these number with TxDOT projections of 40,000. Assuming that 60% of the traffic occurs during 10 hour - 7:30 - 17:30- period of park operations; 24,000 vehicle s / 36,000 seconds = 1 vehicle every 2 seconds passing thru the park entrance. The issue is not necessary the number of vehicles entering exiting the Tom Mays Unit, but the interaction with the increased traffic and lane expansion on Loop 375. In other words close to 100% of vehicles entering or exiting the Tom Mays Unit will encounter traffic on Loop 375, increasing the risk of collisions, if no safer conditions are met.
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Park visitation has increased in 5 of the last 6 years –
FY07 - 4% up
FY08 - 23% up
FY09 - 22% up
FY10 - 7 % down
FY11 - 20% up
FY12 - 11% up
FY12 is the highest visitation recorded with 43,593 accounted visitors (not including volunteers, staff working on daily basis, ARMY and Law
enforcement conducting training, etc. etc. – they count towards the traffic estimates)
Projecting an average of 12% increase in visitation every year we have the following
FY13 48824.16
FY14 54683.0592
FY15 61245.0263FY16 68594.42946
FY17 76825.761
FY18 86044.85232
FY19 96370.23459
FY20 107934.6627
Our estimations are that approximately 40,000 vehicles entered and exited the Tom Mays Unit during FY12. That gives us an average of 109
entry-exit vehicles per day. However the average of entry-exit vehicles per weekend is 393.
TxDOT projections for average daily vehicle traffic on Trans-Mountain Road passing by the Tom Mays Unit Entrance is 40,000 by 2015. Projecting
a yearly increase of 12%, approximately 530 vehicles will be entering/exiting the Tom Mays Unit on weekends by FY15. Or an average 265-300
on Saturdays during FY15. Comparing these number with TxDOT projections of 40,000. Assuming that 60% of the traffic occurs during 10 hour -
7:30 - 17:30- period of park operations; 24,000 vehicles / 36,000 seconds = 1 vehicle every 2 seconds passing thru the park entrance. The issue is
not necessary the number of vehicles entering exiting the Tom Mays Unit, but the interaction with the increased traffic and lane expansion on
Loop 375. In other words close to 100% of vehicles entering or exiting the Tom Mays Unit will encounter traffic on Loop 375, increasing the risk
of collisions, if no safer conditions are met.
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FY12 Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug TOTAL FY13 FY14
Self-pay 316 302 385 349 455 363 537 426 306 268 346 264 4317
Weekends 651 669 573 300 937 844 906 671 739 669 922 729 8610 9643.2 10800.38
Staff POV 124 123 111 109 127 111 119 110 114 108 99 104 1359
Community Service 32 18 7 4 26 50 69 28 52 69 57 43 455Waiver 37 75 21 40 31 32 14 6 59 63 15 35 428
Staff Work-related
(average 12 exits and
entries per day - park
operations) 180 186 180 186 186 174 186 180 186 180 186 186 2196
Estimatedvalues
Volunteers (Average 1000
vehicle entries per year) 100 80 80 80 80 80 80 100 80 80 80 80 1000
Law Enforcement and
Military Training
(Average 12 per year with
average 30 vehicles per
training) 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 360
Emergencies (average 4
emergencies at Tom Mays
per year with average 12
vehicles per incident) 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 12 48
Special Events 150 0 0 0 60 100 100 0 0 0 0 0 410
Estimated number of
unregistered vehicles(approximately 2 per day) 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 720
School Buses 4 4 0 6 0 0 10 16 10 0 0 0 50
RVs 10 10 5 5 5 5 5 5 0 0 5 5 60
20013
TOTAL Traffic in and out of the Tom Mays Unit per year 40026
Average Traffic in and out of the Tom Mays Unit per day 109.3607
Average Traffic in and out of the Tom Mays Unit per weekend (Sat-
Sun) 393.1538 432.8923 477.3994
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Cesar Mendez, Ph. D.Park SuperintendentFranklin Mountains State Park1331 McKelligon Canyon RoadEl Paso, Texas, 79930
Ph: 915-566-6441 ext. 222Fax: 915-566-1834
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