Regionally Significant Roadway Network

Regionally significant project is a transportation project (other than projects that may be grouped in the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) and/or State Transportation Implementation Plan (STIP) or exempt projects as defined in EPA's transportation conformity regulation (40 CFR part 93)) that is on a facility which serves regional transportation needs (such as access to and from the area outside the region; major activity centers in the region; major planned developments such as new retail malls, sports complexes, or employment centers; or transportation terminals) and would normally be included in the modeling of the metropolitan area's transportation network. At a minimum, this includes all principal arterial highways and all fixed guideway transit facilities that offer an alternative to regional highway travel. MPO regionally significant roadways include: Those facilities federally functionally classified as interstate freeways, other freeways or expressways. Those facilities federally functionally classified as principal arterials. Roadways and intermodal connectors included in the federally adopted National Highway System. Roads designated as SH or US routes. Community connections that provide direct, continuously signed connections between nearby or adjacent census defined urbanized areas, urban clusters and population centers with more than 5,000 people. Roadways between activity centers that serve as primary regional connectors to an otherwise unserved regional activity center. Extensions of regionally significant roadways to connect non-connecting termini