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North Carolina General Statute 136-66.2 requires each municipality or Metropolitan Planning Organization, with the cooperation of the North Carolina Department of Transportation, to develop a Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP) that will accommodate present and anticipated travel demand in the community. The CTP, like the Long Range Transportation Plan, is based on data including population growth, economic conditions and prospects, and patterns of land development in the MPO and region.
The CTP is a series of 5 maps. Each map is the same base information at the same scale and contains the basic infrastructure for the area: the existing roadway system, rail lines, airports, water features, and features significant to the community such as schools, parks, municipal and planning boundaries, etc. The full CTP includes an Adoption Sheet, a Street and Highway Map, a Public Transportation and Rail Map, a Bicycle Map, and a Pedestrian Map. Independently the street and highway map, public transportation and rail map, and bicycle map provide insight into the future modal elements for an area. Together, the maps form an all-inclusive look at the transportation system.
During this initial phase of the CTP, the Winston-Salem Urban Area is converting the existing Thoroughfare Plan to the CTP Street and Highway map and inventory table. In consultation with NCDOT, the existing Thoroughfare Plan classifications have been translated to match the new road classifications – Freeways, Expressways, Boulevards, Other Major Thoroughfares and Minor Thoroughfares. A street or highway listed as Recommended is a proposed new road, roads listed as Needs Improvement are existing roads that will be modified in the future to meet the standards of their classification or to meet future capacity or safety deficiencies. Please see the glossary of CTP classifications for a full description of the street and highway characteristics.
To review a printed version of the map, please come to our offices located at Bryce A. Stuart Municipal Building, 100 E. First Street, Room 307, or call (336)727-2708.
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