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a. Can serve as an outer grid element when necessary. b. Provides access to the Interstate System on an east-west axis. General Location: a. Basically along present alignment. Minor Arter/aZ System. The Minor Arterial System is designed to be the "backbone" of the County thoroughfare system and, as such, is located and spaced to carry the major portion of the intra-county traffic. (The plan map is presented in Figure 18 following the text). Total new route segment mileage is only 47.8 miles; however, the addition of this new route segment mileage vastly increases the system's capacity and provides the system with the continuity it presently lacks. The addition of these new route segments does not imply that the total road- way mileage, which would be the responsibility of the County will have to continue to grow. The next section of this plan functionally clas- sifies the entire County system in terms of this plan and presents recommendations toward controlling the mileage of the system which is to be the County's responsibility. The present mileage of the existing County system is divided into two categories, County State Aid Highways (CSAH) and County Roads (C.R.). The total mileage of the CSAH system is 241.S and of the C.R. system is 161.2. This plan attempts to relate the function of the system with the jurisdiction of the system and, therefore, generally equates the CSAH system to the Minor Arterial System. While this may not be possible to accomplish immediately, the County should begin to incre- mentally establish this relationship as approvals for system revisions can be negotiated with the State Aid Division of the Minnesota Highway Department. The Colleator System. As discussed in the previous section which describes the Minor Arterial System, this plan generally equates the CSAH system to the Minor Arterial System. Therefore, it follows that the C.R. system should generally equate to the Collector System. This operation, however, is not as straight-forward as that for Minor Arterial and CSAH. It is complicated by the fact that there are not only local roads on the present C.R. system, but there are also collectors on the MSA (Municipal State Aid) system. The collector is that element of the total road system whose function is to collect local road traffic and "feed" it to the Minor Arterial System. This function tends to indicate a municipal responsibility. However, in a large area of the County, that is, in areas which are not incorporated and do not have a population which exceeds 5,000, there is no state 47