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57 <br />Existing Roadway System <br />The sections below provide information about the existing roadway system in Ramsey, including <br />existing number of lanes, existing roadway jurisdiction, existing functional classification, existing <br />traffic, existing safety, and access management. This chapter also includes summary <br />recommendations from recent plans and corridor studies. <br />Functional Classification <br />The functional classification system groups roadways into classes based on roadway function and <br />purpose. Functional classification is based on both transportation and land use characteristics, <br />including roadway speeds, access to adjacent land, connection to important land uses, and the <br />length of trips taken on the roadway. <br />The functional classification system organizes a <br />roadway and street network that distributes traffic from <br />local neighborhood streets to collector roadways, then <br />to minor arterials and ultimately the principal arterial <br />system. Roads are placed into categories based on the <br />degree to which they provide access to adjacent land <br />and mobility for through traffic. Functional classification <br />gives an indication of the relative hierarchy of roadways <br />in the transportation network. <br />Four classes of roadways are included in the seven -county metropolitan area functional <br />classification system: principal arterials, minor arterials, collector streets, and local streets. Figure <br />31 shows the existing functional classification of each road in the City of Ramsey and Figure 32 <br />shows the existing roadway jurisdiction. The following sections describe each functional class in <br />greater detail and indicate which roadways fall into each classification. <br />c= of RAMSEY <br />Comprehensive Plan 2040 <br />Metropolitan Council Submission <br />1O0 u W :05mul <br />