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• VIII. TRANSPORTATION PLAN <br /> A. INTRODUCTION <br /> It is assumed that automotive transportation will continue as the predominant mover of people <br /> and goods in the future. For this reason, the transportation plan focuses on ground <br /> transportation and network of streets and highways. <br /> The primary concerns of the City are: 1) to ensure proper east-west and north-south arterial <br /> corridors that tie in effectively with the existing transportation infrastructure, and 2) the orderly <br /> development of the infrastructure to ensure economic efficiency of construction and <br /> maintenance. <br /> B. GOALS AND POLICIES <br /> The following is a summary of the City's goals and objectives as they relate to transportation: <br /> 1. GOAL: Provide and maintain adequate and efficient levels of public services within the <br /> community. <br /> POLICIES: <br /> • Upgrade all primary local streets to hard-surface, all-weather roads. <br /> • • Require that developers provide roads to City qualifications before the City <br /> assumes ownership and maintenance. <br /> • Establish a transportation system through jurisdictional cooperation to achieve an <br /> efficient long range plan. <br /> 2. GOAL: Support a regional transportation system which offers convenient and adequate <br /> service within and through the area. <br /> POLICIES: <br /> • Provide for off-street parking within the commercial area to reduce vehicle <br /> congestion. <br /> • Implement an intersection and traffic control program through the use of signage <br /> and signals. <br /> • Encourage a high level of efficiency, productivity, and quality of service in modes <br /> of transportation between Elk River, surrounding communities and the metropolitan <br /> areas. <br /> • Provide frontage roads to reduce access points along major thoroughfares. <br /> • Provide collectors and local streets as appropriate to provide links to the existing <br /> 0 system. <br /> & r <br />