Town of Schroeppel, NY Article IV Street Designations

[Adopted 8-17-2006 by L.L. No. 5-2006]

§ 79-34 Definitions.

As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM FOR RURAL AREAS

A. RURAL PRINCIPAL ARTERIAL, INTERSTATE The interstate system consists of all presently designated routes of the interstate system.

B. RURAL PRINCIPAL ARTERIAL, OTHER This system consists of all non-interstate principal arterials. The rural principal arterial systems consists of a connected rural network of continuous routes having the following characteristics:

(1) Serve corridor movements having trip length and travel density characteristics indicative of substantial statewide or interstate travel.

(2) Provide an integrated network without stub connections except where unusual geographic or traffic flow conditions dictate otherwise (e.g., international boundary connections and connections to coastal cities).

C. RURAL MINOR ARTERIAL The rural minor arterial road system, in conjunction with the principal arterial system, should form a rural network having the following characteristics:

(1) Link cities and larger towns (and other traffic generators, such as major resort areas, that are capable of attracting travel over similarly long distances) and form an integrated network providing interstate and intercounty service.

(2) Be spaced at such intervals so that all developed areas of the state are within a reasonable distance of an arterial highway.

(3) Designs that provide for relatively high overall travel speeds, with minimum interference to through movement.

D. RURAL MAJOR COLLECTOR Collectors generally serve travel of primarily intracounty rather than statewide importance and constitute those routes on which predominant travel distances are shorter than on arterial routes. On the average, more moderate speeds may be typical. The rural major collector should have the following characteristics:

(1) Provide service to any county seat not on an arterial route, to the larger towns not directly served by the higher systems, and to other traffic generators such as consolidated schools, shipping points, county parks, etc.

(2) Link the places mentioned above with nearby larger towns or cities, or with routes of higher classification.

(3) Serve the more important intracounty travel corridors.

E. RURAL MINOR COLLECTOR The rural minor collector should have the following characteristics:

(1) Be spaced at intervals to collect traffic from local roads and bring all developed areas within a reasonable distance of a collector road.

(2) Provide service to the remaining smaller communities.

(3) Link the locally important traffic generators with their rural areas.

F. RURAL LOCAL ROAD The rural local road should have the following characteristics: serve primarily to provide access to adjacent land and service to travel over relatively short distances as compared to collectors and other highway systems.

FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM FOR URBAN AREAS

A. URBAN PRINCIPAL ARTERIAL Interstate.

B. URBAN PRINCIPAL ARTERIAL Other freeways and expressways.

C. URBAN PRINCIPAL ARTERIAL, OTHER (no control of access) These systems should serve the major centers of activity of a metropolitan area, the highest traffic volume corridors, and should carry a high proportion of the total urban area travel on a minimum mileage. The principal arterial system should carry the major portion of trips entering and leaving the urban area, as well as the majority of through movements desiring to bypass the central city. Almost all fully and partially controlled access facilities will be part of this functional system.

D. URBAN MINOR ARTERIAL This system should interconnect with and augment the urban principal arterial system and provide service to trips of moderate length at somewhat lower level of travel mobility than principal arterials. Ideally, they should not penetrate identifiable neighborhoods. The spacing of minor arterial streets should normally be not more than one mile in fully developed areas.

E. URBAN COLLECTOR This system provides both land access service and traffic circulation within residential neighborhoods, commercial and industrial areas. An urban collector may penetrate residential neighborhoods, distributing trips from the arterials through the area to the ultimate destination. The collector street also collects traffic from local streets in residential neighborhoods and channels it into the arterial system. In the central business district, and in other areas of like development and traffic density, the collector system may include the street grid which forms a logical entity for traffic circulation.

F. URBAN LOCAL STREET These comprise all facilities not on any of the higher systems. They serve primarily to provide direct access to abutting land and access to the higher order systems. It offers the lowest level of mobility.

§ 79-35 Street classifications.

All streets in the Town of Schroeppel will be classified by and approved by the Town Board by resolution as necessary.