Figure 36. Service road funded by KDOT access management set-aside funds. A more urban example involved completion of a grid network parallel to a major arterial in the small City of Hays, Kansas. Here, KDOT provided a series of small grants to the City to advance access management objectives on US Highway 183/Vine Street (Figure 37). The city negotiated right-of-way dedications from property owners and was allowed to apply the value of the right-of-way to fulfill its one-third match under the program.
Figure 37. Parallel access roads in Hays, Kansas. Florida DOT (FDOT) does not currently invest state funds in local off-system road projects that advance access management on the state highway system. However, FDOT coordinates with MPOs and local governments on projects that improve supporting network on the state highway system. Examples include constructing a service road along a state highway, connecting roads to relieve congestion on the state highway by creating a parallel reliever, or realigning a roadway that is not part of the state highway system so that it intersects at a signalized intersection. For example, Figure 38 shows a service road realignment along SR 50 undertaken by the Hernando County MPO as a capacity and rehabilitation project. Hernando County has been implementing a system of service roads along major roadways since adoption of its frontage road ordinance in 1986. Another example is the use of concurrency management authority by Okaloosa County to develop a system of service roads along US Highway 98 (Figure 39).
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