Downtown stadium would ?not overload streets

PROVIDENCE – The proposed downtown minor league baseball stadium will generate a peak traffic count of 1,800 vehicle trips an hour, when visitors arrive for the games or events, but will not tip surrounding intersections into failure, according to an analysis prepared for the team’s owners.

The peak hour for traffic in Providence, under existing conditions, is between 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., while the peak traffic for the baseball park is expected to come over a two-hour span before a night game. The study assumes that these peak volume hours coincide.

The ballpark, which would host the relocated Pawtucket Red Sox, is designed to seat 10,000 fans and would be located on a site on Dyer Street downtown, overlooking the Providence River. A traffic impact and access study, was prepared for the owners by Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc.

The traffic report projects that nearly one-in-five ballpark attendees will either take mass transit or walk or bike to the games.

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