7.3 Rural Town Design Elements
7.3.1 General Characteristics
The rural town context applies to roads in rural areas located within a developed community. Design of rural town arterials combines that of rural and urban arterial criteria that includes land use and pedestrian access along a specific corridor where both classifications are being utilized in a low population density area.
Arterials in rural town contexts can still carry high traffic densities and may have any number of through-traffic lanes along with varying lane and shoulder widths to meet LOS requirements. Rural town arterials have more constraints that include but are not limited to:
- Constrained ROW;
- Utilities;
- Surrounding buildings; and
- Local road connections.
Rural town arterials may include residential neighborhoods, schools, industrial facilities, main street business districts, each of which present differing design challenges and differing levels of pedestrian and bicycle activity.
7.3.2 Typical Section
Rural town arterial example typical sections are shown in
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below. The geometric dimensions shown in these sections represent examples of different conditions and may be adjusted in accordance with
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Figure 7-8: Rural Town Typical Section – Raised Median with Parking Lane
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Figure 7-9: Rural Town Typical Section – Two-Way Left Turn Lane (TWLTL) with Parking Lane