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A. TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT <br /> <br />INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />The following Public Facilities Section discusses the availability <br />and development of transportation, utilities (sewer, storm sewers <br />and water), parks, and airports. Ramsey is a community whose <br />past development has occurred with few municipal public facilities. <br />Planning concerns now in%olve providing such services to existing <br />development plus extending them into areas presently undeveloped. <br /> <br />A Transportation Plan is a major element of the City of Ramsey's <br />planning program. It is associated with the expedient movement of <br />people and goods from one place to another within or through the <br />community. Thoroughfare location, size and condition have much <br />to do with determining the expediency of this movement. Because <br />of the energy situation, an element of transportation planning <br />which is becoming more significant is public transportation. <br />~hether planning for public or private transportation, the preceding <br />Land Use Plan aids in determing required transportation systems by <br />providing a thorough understanding of the anticipated growth and <br />.development of the community. <br /> <br />THOROUGHFARE <br />SYSTEM <br />a. Inventory <br /> <br />1. THOROUGHFARES <br /> <br />Looking at the basic travel patterns, we find the following needs: <br /> <br />1) <br /> <br />Through the community, with both origin and destination of <br />the trip beyond the community. The only reason for traveling <br />through Ramsey in this case, is to achieve the shortest <br />travel or time distance between the two points. <br /> <br />2) <br /> <br />Into or out of the community~ by people living in the community <br />with activity destinations outside - or the reverse. <br /> <br />3) <br /> <br />Within the community, for the home-to-home, home-to-school, <br />home-to-work, home-to-shops, etc., types of trips. Each <br />of these trips has different requirements as to directness, <br />the number and degree of impediments, number of vehicles <br />and degree of accessibility. <br /> <br />61 <br /> <br /> <br />