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7.The City will promote improved mass transportation services for urban neighborhoods. Orono has established a Park and Ride Transit System. Orono encourages improved bus scheduling and improved ser\dce, especially at off-peak hours. Orono strongly supports the "Tonkamobile" (?) program and encourages expansion to provide improved Excelsior- Wayzata service via Orono's North Shore neighborhoods. I I I RURAL TRANSPORTATION POLICIES 1. 2. Public streets in the rural area will be primarily limited to the existing collector and arterial grid system. The low rural land use density does not require nor can it economically support an extensive public street system. Rural lot arrangements have always been served by the existing grid streets and are capable of subdivision to the planned rural density without requiring additional public street investments. The Ring Route concept utilizes as much as possible the existing rural highway system. The principal corridor for traffic from .Minnetrista and points west utilizes Hennepin County Roads No. 6 and 19 and State Highw ay 12. The City of Orono has constructed a key link betw een County Roads 6 and 19. Additional Ring Route traffic uses the existing north-south collector roads to travel away from the Lake toward these principal travel routes. 3. 4. The City of Orono will encourage all neccssaiy road surface and intersection improvements required to accommodate and to facilitate through traffic on the Ring Route. This will include cooperation with the City of Long Lake in accommodating traffic on Highway 12. Rural residential developments will utilize private road feeders to supplement the existing public road grid. Because of topographical limitations, the historic shape of rural land divisions, and the low^ density of rural land use, most new rural residential lots are best prescrx ed by short dead-end roads running off the existing street system. The low number of dwellings on each road, the dead-end configuration and the scattered road locations make public roadway maintenance excessively costly compared to any public benefit. Therefore, most new rural lots will be directly served by privately owned and maintained roadways. New public streets will be accepted where a "through" configuration provides a general public benetit and'or where the number of residences justifies public maintenance expense. CMP 4A - 15