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Projects which have already gone through a statewide or regional project priority setting process. In 1981, MnDOT funded a $5%000 bikeway/walkway project parallel to State Trunk Highway g47 and immediately south of the County Road #116 Alternate Transportation Corridor. This is but one of the connections the ISTEA Enhancement funds will cause. The Highway # 116 vehicular Rum River crossing received state-wide and regional priority resulting in the 1991 completion of the bridge and overpass and resultant connections of the Cities of Anoka, Ramsey and Andover. Because this project consists of a series of transportation linkages to existing components, the project can also be considered underfunded to the extent that a $165,000 pedestrian overpass and four separate fenced and concrete walk/bikeways are in place but are missing the critical connections that ISTEA Enhancements will provide. The County Road #116 Alternative Transportation Corridor was accepted and reviewed by the Metropolitan Council's Surface Transportation Program review in 1992. The project ranked in the upper half of those submitted but financial constraints did not allow for the project funding. Since that submittal, the project has been enhanced by project expansion, landscaping, lighting and by the historic preservation component. Trunk Highway #47 is the principal north/south arterial running through the entire community of Ramsey and connecting Rarnsey with downtown Anoka. County Highway #i 16 runs the entire length of the Anoka/Andover border and traverses east into Coon Rapids and Blaine. Plus, from Trunk Highway g47, both north and south of the intersection with County Highway #116, is scheduled for a Minnesota Department of Transportation roadway and intersection improvement in 1994. This improvement will accommodate right-of-way for the bikeway/walkway project found in this proposal. Completion of the County Road #116 Alternative Transportation Cooridor will promote, demonstrate, and facilitate sustainable transportation in the Northwest Metropolitan Area. Projects which demonstrate more than a local impact or benefit. The residents and commuters within the communities of Andover, Anoka and Ramsey will directly benefit by the County Highway #116 alternative u'ansportation corridor funded by this project. The projected area of benefit includes those utilizing the transportation link along County Highway #116 linking the Enterprise Industrial Park and the Gateway North Industrial Park to the River's Bend Commercial Area, the City of Anoka Highway Commercial Area, the Anoka Metropolitan Transit Commission Park and Ride Lot, the Anoka Senior High School, and adjacent public and private uses. This project will provide a bikeway/walkway component assisting the connection of Trunk Highway g47 and County Highway #5 with County Highway #116. The result will be linking all of the above five multi-modal components with several subdivisions, elementary schools and another commercial district, in addition to three fall3, accessible American Disabil/ties Act compliant park developments within the City of Ramsey. This project will provide accessibility to these parks and to the communities of Anoka and Andover. In addition, the bikeway/walkway project will accommodate accessibility to several other local and regional parks and the Anoka County fairgrounds. 7