Morabito calculated the number of weekday p.m. peak-hour trips to the store at 796 trips. Wal-Mart s study anticipated 665. The types of trips generated also differed. Morabito s percentage was 54.2. Morabito figured 22.8 percent.
Primary trips are when the store is a destination.
Pass-by trips are when people happen to drive by the store and then stop in. Wednesday night, Wal-Mart released the results of a telephone poll of 942 Ellsworth voters. Some 11 percent were undecided and 38 percent would not support the store. CORD member Nancy Alexander said her group s first concern is traffic. Alexander said the Wal-Mart proposal ignores that policy when it comes to the Buttermilk Road and the Beechland Road.