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HARRISBURG AREA LAND USE PLAN network enhancements would reduce burdens on existing thoroughfares and improve levels of urban services so that the intensity of land use proposed on the Harrisburg Area Land Use Map can be supported. The collector and local streets shown on the Conceptual Transportation Network Map are suitable approximate routes for facilities in the context of existing development patterns and physical features. Implementation will require further route refinement. Typically, these routes will implemented as required components of private land development proposals (e.g., Brookdale spine road). The Map is thus a framework in which private construction of roads for public maintenance expands the transportation network. As previously noted, the Conceptual Transportation Network Map reiterates projects from the CRMPO Thoroughfare Plan. As a regional document, the Thoroughfare Plan identifies routes with broad strokes, leaving significant route refinement to local governments and landowners. Two of these routes appear adjusted on Figure 11, as follows: • Route #1 follows Farmington Ridge Parkway and bypasses existing residential development at the southern end of Caldwell Road. • Route #4 utilizes Raging Ridge Road and bypasses existing residential development at the eastern end of Tom Query Road. Non- motorized facilities - multi -use trails, greenways, and pedestrian ways - provide residents access to parks, recreation areas, civic places, and institutions. An interconnected network of facilities for bicyclists and pedestrians is necessary to support V " transit. A multi -modal transportation system of this nature supports the arrangement and varying intensities of land uses, as proposed in this Harrisburg Area Land Use Plan, that constitute the community. The Conceptual Transportation Network Map builds upon Harrisburg's existing bicycle /pedestrian plan. The three facility types for bicyclists and pedestrians are intended to comprise a network that offers access to every civic destination in the planning area for non - motorized users. Existing and proposed parks, schools, library, town hall, and YMCA are all directly accessible to this network as shown. Generally, multi -use trails and greenways are best suited to lower density areas, while pedestrian ways best serve areas planned with higher densities. (Pedestrian ways are existing roads that could benefit from improved pedestrian surfaces, crossings, and /or illumination.) Greenways and multi -use trail segments are particularly useful links to parks, schools, and libraries, since many of their users are children. The separation from automobile travel lanes they provide is safer and more APPENDIX C: SUPPORTING CONCEPT MAPS AUGUST 2010 Attac ment number 2 G -1 Page 404 Greenways (above) and multi -use trails (below) are integral components of a multi -modal transportation system as well as popular, in- demand recreational facilities.