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The Metropolitan Council's TRANSPORTATION POLICY PLAN projects 34,800 person trips beginning and ending in Ramsey on a typical · day in the year 1990. Ail of these trips will use the local, collector and/or minor arterial system within Ramsey for at least a portion of the trip. Some of these trips will use the local system to reach the metropolitan system, however, over half of the remaining trips stay in subregion 7 which includes Ramsey. To analyze the impact of the City's land use plan on the Metro- politan Highway System,.the Metropolitan Council has designed a system of traffic forecasting called traffic assignment zones (TAZ's). Ramsey must provide population, household, and employment data for each TAZ. This information is shown on Map 11, and will be used by the Metropolitan Council to determine whether or not the system can handle the anticipated traffic. The existing network of streets and thoroughfares in the City of Ramsey will form the basic structure of the Transportation Plan. The established goals and policies provide a basis for formulating the future system. The following describes the major characteris- tics of the elements of the Ramsey thoroughfare system. {Map 12). Persons traveling through the community without a need to stop would desire a direct uninterrupted trip. Points of access could be eliminated as far as these people are concerned. For home-to- home, or home-to-school trips, unlimited access to all possible points is desired. Speed and the number of stops are incidental because the trips are short. The conflicts arise when all of these drivers' needs are forced into a single thoroughfare. Obviously, growth necessitates a gradual alteration of function until completely adequate facilities can be provided. Many of the streets which at one time were minor roads have gradually changed into busy thoroughfares. .Through usage, their function has been determined. The individual streets and highways which comprise the City of Ramsey Transportation Plan vary widely in their function. Some have the function of connecting Ramsey with other urban areas {such as U.S. 10); others' provide convenient routes between various areas of land use (residential neighborhoods, commercial concentra- tions, and industrial districts); others act as collectors of local traffic within the areas of land use and bring them to the higher classifications of streets, and others are intended only to provide access to private property. These functions require different standards of design and construction as the intended volumes and speeds of traffic are increased or decreased (see Table 12 ). The function of a street or thoroughfare, therefore, should be expressed in the physical design of the facility. 62