(a) The County encourages transportation programs consistant with the County Asset Management Plan; modes and land use patterns that minimize automobile congestion, promote safety and reduce sources of air pollution.
(b) The County supports preservation of rail corridors for potential development of rail or other improved transit/trail alternatives in the future. No development should be allowed to prevent the options of the Community to pursue rail, trail or other improved transit alternatives along such corridors.
(c) Where practical as a means of retaining rural character, the County seeks to retain existing unpaved roads and to preclude the extension of winter maintenance on rural roads.
(d) The County seeks cooperation with emergency service agencies in establishing emergency access road standards that adequately address safety needs in the context of rural character.
(e) Development that generates traffic volumes in excess of the capacity of the County road system or that causes significant service level reductions is discouraged.
(f) Appropriate buffer strips should be preserved along federal, state and local roadways to protect public views, minimize safety concerns and environmental impacts, and to preserve corridors for future transportation facilities.
(g) Roadway capacity improvements should integrate alternative modes of transportation, such as bicycles and transit, and pedestrian ways so as to add "people carrying" capacity to the roadway, not just vehicular capacity, whenever feasible.
(h) New and upgraded roadways should be designed, engineered and constructed to minimize environmental and aesthetic damage and future maintenance costs consistent with public safety needs.