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COPY - NCOOY <br />with routes of higher classification; and (3) serve the more <br />important intra- county travel corridors. <br />Minor Collector Roads : These routes (1) collect traffic from <br />local roads and bring all developed areas within a reasonable <br />distance of a collector road; (2) provide service to the <br />remaining smaller communities; and (3) link the locally <br />important traffic generators with their rural hinterland. <br />Rural, local goad Sygtep : The local roads comprise all roads not <br />on one of the higher systems. Local i ;ulZcivision <br />streets and residential collector meets are elements of the <br />local road system. Local residential streets are either cul -de- <br />sacs, loop streets less than 2,500 feet in length, or streets less <br />than one mile in length that do not connect thoroughfares or serve <br />major traffic generators and do not collect traffic from more than <br />one hundred dwelling units. Residential collector streets are <br />streets which serve as the connecting street system between local <br />residential streets and the thoroughfare system. <br />10 <br />