Chapter VII: Transportation 356 Transportation - March, 1999 Plan and Implementation the VISION for TRANSPORTATION

Chapter VII: Transportation 356 Transportation - March, 1999 Plan and Implementation THE VISION FOR TRANSPORTATION To create more choices for residents in how they travel to and through Town, and to create a transportation system that works in tandem with land use to preserve a landscape of rural roads with distinct village and hamlet centers. Vision Goals 1. Streets: Better management, classification and 6. Intermodal: Make transfers between modes (bus/train, improvement of the existing infrastructure, rather than new train/bicycle, car/train, etc.) seamless. highways and arterials. 7. All modes: Safeguard and enhance vehicular, 2. Traffic calming: Acknowledge the joint use of streets by bicyclist/rollerblader and pedestrian safety. bicycles and pedestrians in addition to motor vehicles in all 8. Land Use: Strengthen shopping and other activities in future street and traffic planning. village and hamlet centers, to reduce the need for automobile 3. Bicycling and walking: Create a predictable, safe, and trips; assure that these centers are convenient to access; but ubiquitous bicycling and walking network, initially targeted for within the centers, put the priority on pedestrians, not recreational use but eventually accommodating utilitarian use through-traffic. as well. 9. Scenery: Improve how residents and visitors perceive the 4. Trains and Long-Distance Buses: Enhance services and experience of traveling on Southampton’s streets, by all amenities that increase ridership and rider satisfaction forms of transportation. especially targeted to meeting peak summer demand. 10. Regional perspective: Seek inter-municipal, inter- 5. Local Public Transport: In the short term, emphasize governmental and public/private partnerships to promote buses and hamlet/village center (or inter-hamlet/village alternatives to deal with what are in fact regional center) access, and in the long term, build an infrastructure transportation issues. to increase year-round commuter and utilitarian use. Plan and Implementation Transportation - March, 1999 357 358 Transportation - March, 1999 Plan and Implementation TECHNICAL FINDINGS AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT 1. STREETS AND HIGHWAYS 1970 Master Plan Classifications a. Existing Street Network and Traffic Conditions Limited Access Highway Secondary Highway Street networks are classified by purpose for many reasons that Collector Street are related to federal funding, traffic engineering and planning Minor Street concerns in what is termed a functional classification system. The conventional classification system is based on a hierarchical street network, where streets form a dendritic network, Town Subdivision Street Classifications (Chapter 292) essentially like the branches of a tree. The smallest streets, e.g. Highway cul-de-sacs, are connected to the system at only one end. Small Collector Street streets connect to medium streets; these in turn connect to large Local Street A streets; and so on. Interconnections between small and large Local Street B streets are discouraged. This dendritic network is evident in Lane Southampton and presently codified by the New York State Marginal Road Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), as well as in the Town Code and 1970 Master Plan (refer to Table 11 below, and Beyond this broad characterization, Southampton’s street Maps 27W and 27E showing the 1990 Rural Road Function pattern varies markedly, with a radial pattern in the west and a Classification and Maps 28W and 28E showing Street Layout). grid pattern in the east, with the Shinnecock Canal as a divider and choke point. Table 11: Road West of the Canal, the Sunrise Highway (Route 27) runs the Classifications length of the town, absorbing most of the through traffic going to and from the South Fork. North of the highway, the major 1990 Rural Functional Classification (NYS DOT) roads converge at the Riverhead traffic circle, near the Interstate Riverhead downtown; much of this area is in the Central Pine Principal Arterial Barrens or State and County parks and thus is sparsely settled, Minor Arterial with clusters of streets where development has taken place. Major Collector South of the Sunrise Highway, Montauk Highway (Route 27A) Minor Collector bends in a gentle arc, proximate to the highway at the far east and west, and proximate to Shinnecock Bay in the middle; Plan and Implementation Transportation - March, 1999 359 M AP Legend 27W 360 Minor Collector Minor Collector Major Arterial Minor Major Arterial Access Highway Limited 1999 - March, Transportation Implementation and Plan Scale: 1"=2 miles 1"=2 Scale: North Base Map Produced Land by Ethics, Inc. andPHR&A, pc Southampton Tomorrow Southampton Comprehensive Plan Update, 1996 Update, Plan Comprehensive Base Map Derived from: NYDOT Mapping Data Town of Southampton, NY: Southampton, of Town 1990 Rural 1990 Rural FunctionalRoad Classification West Half Matchline West Matchline East MAP 27E Le ge nd Li m ited Access Highway Ma jor Arterial Min or Arterial Ma jor Collector Min or Co lle c tor Southampton Tomorrow 1990 Rural Road Functional Classification East Half North Town of Southampton, NY: Scale: 1"=2 miles Comprehensive Plan Update, 1996 st a E e n hi Base Map Produced by Land Ethics, Inc. and PHR&A, pc cl at M Base Map Derived from: NYDOT Mapping Data Plan and Implementation Transportation - March, 1999 361 M AP 28W 362 1999 - March, Transportation Implementation and Plan R T E CR 2 5 R 1 7 A O U R T T E E S O U M T H 2 O 2 7 R 4 M IC D O C H O U N E S N N C U T / R U N E A O I V G U U T E S P K N O / R R V E I E H A D A O R E D E R K N R N Y H T E T R A R Y D R O D A D H R I C G R O H 5 A 1 W S CIRCLE FLANDERS/RIVERHEAD D U A N Y R I S E C S R R O 6 O 3 U A D T H R I V E R H E A D R / Q U C C R D 3 1 O O K A R K S N U T T G O P U 1 E 0 R O D L R I V 5 E R O E H D A A D R O A M D A IN Scale: 1"=2miles North SO U TH C O U N T R Y R Q D U F O L Q G U O G A U E R U I V E O R N E S H E L D C A R D D E D U R L B R E D U ' O S A W N K E C I R S D O R U O S N A TR T D EE R T Y R R O H T A E I D G 2 H 4 R R W I R V O A O E A Y A D R D H E A D / M H O A R M T N E T P R T E A D 2 O 7 U N A K C R H B E I A E G Y H K W S A B Y R E D A E A R S C O T A H D Base MapProducedbyLandEthics,Inc. andPHR&A,pc Comprehensive PlanUpdate, 1996 T Southampton Tomorrow I A R N T A E B 2 Town ofSouthampton,NY: 7 A Y P R O Base MapDerivedfrom:NYDOTMapping Data N D Q U O G S U Street Layout E U E A V N R I S L Y N E West Half N P O N Q E U U N E V A O G U E B R H R I O G A H D W A Matchline West Y Matchline East H I L L S T A T I O N M O N T A U K H M I E G A H D W O W A Y N C M R A G E 3 E S T 9 . E E G M A H M AP 28E 4 1 1 R E O T A R D D A O R H C A E B LONG NOY T D A S ROA CK IN A M S M A T D O R I D O S N A O E D Y E N R H S F D T I A L K I M O E R C L I N A L L IL Y R K O D L N S D T K O P N N K E T C R I R O R B O A B D R S A R A H O G A W G G A D A T S E / R N O T 4 6 P H E M T L R A A O C M H P H I D L E S L E CR R G E E E R K O D J R I O A T F R A M O I D B E D W D R L ROA E D D R O A N R D AY D W O O N H N G . O HI D R A P K T AU M NT A D S A T MO A O M H R P G 7 R N E I T H O 2 O E E A N T A T E M R M B D S E A S Y C F E S T O X O R L A .

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