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Appendix A: Screening Goals and Criteria <br />Five goals (from MISS's Alternative Transportation Plan): <br />• Improve and enhance the visitor experience by integrating and enhancing opportunities for <br />transportation, recreation, education, and scenic enjoyment along the river. <br />• Provide access to the MISS for everyone into the surrounding transportation system while <br />improving safety and meeting ADA. <br />• Increase visitation to MISS without increasing congestion. <br />• Establish a transportation system to and in the MISS that preserves, enhances, and interprets <br />natural and cultural resources. <br />• Promotes development of environmental, economic, and socially adaptable and sustainable <br />transportation and recreation facilities. <br />Additional criteria: <br />• Be near transportation facilities, including one of nine MISS alternative transportation system <br />nodes <br />• Be located in proximity to river access <br />• Meet one or more of the following Alternative Transportation System goals: <br />o Closes a trail gap in the existing MISS system <br />o Extends the MISS system beyond current end -points or ends of trail segments <br />o Improves the physical conditions of existing trails <br />o Establishes linkages with existing bicycle, boat and/or transit facilities <br />o Encourages the use of alternative transportation modes (e.g. walking, bicycling, <br />paddling) <br />o Enhances the visibility and awareness of the MISS <br />o Promotes the recreational use and features of the MISS <br />o Serves as a commute -to -work facility <br />o Educates visitors on the cultural and natural resources of the MISS <br />• Ready for construction (shovel ready) by desired implementation year <br />January 29, 2014 — Page 13 <br />