Transportation Plan - Town of Garner

Chapter 5: Implementation Guidance
The need for additional guidance to implement the recommendations of
the Transportation Plan is driven by three key factors:
1. There will always be more desire than capital. Since the
transportation needs of the Garner area significantly exceed what can
be expected to be purchased from all revenue sources in any given
year – or 10‐year span – there exists a need to be able to establish a
long‐term solution to transportation financing.
2. The project recommendations alone are insufficient to recall their
motivation. The informed opinions expressed by the Steering
Committee and public are highly valuable, paid for with tax revenues
and considerable effort on the part of many participants in the
planning process. However, they are also ephemeral and not
succinctly captured on a map or table of project needs. Hence, there
exists a need to monitor the progress of the Transportation Plan and
update it again according to a reasonable schedule.
3. Both major and minor decisions determine the transportation
environment in a community, usually over a great deal of time. While
a Town may celebrate the opening of a new roadway, briefly, once or
twice every decade, every day in‐between presents decisions that
collectively shape the way the transportation system performs for
diverse users of that system. Therefore, a need exists to provide best
practice guidance to the staff and decision‐makers, as well as private
developers, which can be used to create a better community over a
long period of time. Even “best practice” is not static but will change
over time as our understanding of transportation dynamics grows and
changes occur in vehicle design and modal trends shift in reaction to
fuel prices or external policy changes.
The following sections illustrate important concepts such as guidance
that exhibits best practice in the design of streets, available revenues,
and policies and programs that can help implement the
recommendations contained in this Plan.
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