Collector Streets Clause Samples
The 'Collector Streets' clause defines the standards and requirements for roads that serve to collect traffic from local streets and channel it to arterial roads. Typically, this clause outlines specifications such as minimum width, pavement type, and access points, and may address issues like traffic flow, parking, and pedestrian crossings. By establishing clear guidelines for the design and function of collector streets, the clause ensures efficient traffic movement within a development and helps prevent congestion and safety hazards on both local and major roadways.
Collector Streets. Collector streets shall be arranged so as to provide ready collection of traffic from residential areas and conveyance of this traffic to the major street and highway system and shall be properly related to the mass transportation system, to special traffic generators such as schools, churches, shopping centers and other concentrations of population, and to the major streets into which they feed.
Collector Streets. Streets which provide moderate speed movement of persons and goods within large areas. These are basically local streets which usually, because of more directness of routing and higher capacity than other local streets, receive higher volumes of traffic to be distributed from or collected toward nearby arterial streets. These dual-purpose streets are also classified as two subclasses as follows: