Highways and Roads

Section 1 - Highways

Highway Shields

The Highway System

1.1. - DESCRIPTION. — The National Highway System consists of the highway routes and connections to transportation facilities that shall—

1.1.1 - serve major population centers, international border crossings, ports, airports, public transportation facilities, and other intermodal transportation facilities and other major travel destinations;

1.1.2 - meet national defense requirements;

1.1.3 - serve interstate and interregional travel and commerce.

1.2 - COMPONENTS. — The initial National Highway System described in Section (1) consists of the following:

1.2.1 - The National Highway System depicted on the map submitted by the Minister of Transportation to the Assembly with the report entitled MAP–631.

1.2.2 - Other urban and rural principal arterial routes, and border crossings on those routes, that were not included on the National Highway System before the date of enactment of the MAP–631.

1.2.3 - Other connector highways (including toll facilities) that were not included in the National Highway System before the date of enactment of the MAP–631 but that provide motor vehicle access between arterial routes on the National Highway System and a major intermodal transportation facility.

1.2.4 - A strategic highway network that—

1.2.4.1 - consists of a network of highways that are important to the Republic's strategic defense policy, that provide defense access, continuity, and emergency capabilities for the movement of personnel, materials, and equipment in both peacetime and wartime, and that were not included on the National Highway System before the date of enactment of the MAP–631;

1.2.4.2 - may include highways on or off the Interstate System; and shall be designated by the Minister, in consultation with appropriate Federal agencies and the Provincal Governors.

1.2.5 - Major strategic highway network connectors that—

1.2.5.1 - consist of highways that provide motor vehicle access between major military installations and highways that are part of the strategic highway network but were not included on the National Highway System before the date of enactment of the MAP–631;

1.2.5.2 - shall be designated by the Minister, in consultation with appropriate Federal agencies and the Provincial Governors.

1.3 - Subsequent highway and major road expansions are delegated to the Kodiak National Highway Authority (KNHA) and Kodiak National Turnpike Authority (KNTA) .

1.4 - The KNHA when building or maintaining a highway must use the white and black shields. The White shield must be used on major highways that have a minimum speed limit of 85 KPH and is designed as an expressway. The Black Shields should be used for other routes that do not meet the requirement of an expressway but are still routes with a national importance .

1.5 - The KNTA must use the Blue Turnpike Shields for its highways .

Highway Projects and Programs

1.6 - The KNTA and KNHA must identify corridors and build highways/ expressways/ turnpikes connecting cities and communities together across the nation .

1.7 - When a corridor is defined, the KNHA must do a cost analysis to determine final cost of the project and present its findings to the Ministry of Transportation and to local officials for final approval. Local officials and the Ministry of Transportation then will make a joint decision on how the road will be funded and built. If the road will be built as a free expressway, the KNHA will build and maintain the road. If built as a Turnpike, the KNTA will build and maintain the road .

1.8 - The KNTA is responsible for maintaining turnpikes that it builds or obtains with money it gains from tolling fees., The KNTA is responsible for creating an electronic tolling system to be used nationwide and manage the system .

Regulations and Restrictions

1.9 - A turnpike is defined as a toll road that is designed to take higher speeds of up to 100 KPH or more. The road must have at least four (4) lanes, two (2) lanes in each direction, with a 12.5 meters median or safety barrier in the middle to separate traffic. The turnpike must also be a controlled access highway .

1.10 - An expressway is defined as with 4 lanes/ 2 lanes in each direction with a safety median of 12.5 meters or safety barrier if shorter .

1.11 - A Highway is defined as any road that may be considered an important connector but doesn't meet the requirements of an Expressway .

1.12 - The KNTA may not operate on residential roads on or on roads with only two (2) lanes, one (1) lane in each direction with the exception of a toll bridge (see 3.2.1), or on existing roads that were constructed prior to passing of this bill .

1.13 - A Toll Bridge is a bridge that connects two (2) roads together over a gap or river .

1.14 - The KNTA may not operate existing bridges that are under 150 meters in length or cross a flood zone where the river is up to 150 meters wide or if the bridge is only 15 meters tall from maximum height from top of the river .

Section 2 - Roads

Bus Lanes

2.1 - Dedicated bus lanes must be at least 36 meters in length and 3.4 meters in width. This regulation shall be overseen by the Department of Bus Infrastructure (DBI)

Section 3 - Bridges

National Bridge Database

3.1 - The Ministry of Transportation will be required for the next 2 years (from 666) to collect information about every bridge built in the country and inspect bridges that have not been inspected in over 5 years. The Ministry of Transportation will put aside at least 2 million Florins of startup funding .

3.2 - The Ministry of Transportation will be required to post that data for public use on a database .

3.2.1 - The National Bridge Database will contain the location of the bridges, the as-build plans for the bridge, all inspection reports of the bridge, and all incidents involving the bridge that may include fires, and collisions.

3.3 - The Ministry of Transportation must show on the database which bridges are considered structurally deficient according to the last inspection report .

3.4 - If a bridge is considered structurally deficient. The Ministry of Transport will prioritize funding to rebuild the bridge .