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north side with the rest of the Town located to the south of Highway 49. Third, it will make <br />motorists aware that they are passing through a Town and encourage them to notice Mount <br />Pleasant and slow down. <br /> <br />General Goals: <br /> <br />· Join the Metropolitan Planning Organization and work with NCDOT to identify current <br /> needs, future trends, and to program transportation facilities to improve mobility of people <br /> and goods. <br />· Work with both organizations to create a Thoroughfare Plan to outline how to mitigate <br /> existing problems and future needs on the transportation system to prevent roads from <br /> becoming over-capacity. <br />· Create a bicycle lane and sidewalk program to inventory all the existing resources and plan <br /> the placement of future bike lanes and sidewalk extensions. <br />· Develop and maintain a transportation system, which preserves and enhances the natural and <br /> built environments. <br />· Improve traffic signal timing and coordination at Main and Franklin Streets through <br /> intelligent transportation systems. <br />· Have an overlay district along highway 49 and 73 to control the quality of development along <br /> these major access points. <br />· Maintain "nodes" of commercial, retail, business uses so that they may share driveways in <br /> order to reduce the number of curb cuts along primary roads that would increase traffic <br /> congestion if not controlled. <br /> <br /> <br />