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Streets A rectangular grid street system has been established in Mounds View. The major exception to this grid system is Highway 10 which cuts through the city on a diagonal from the northwest to the southeast. This results in angled intersections on Highway 10.No major street expansion projects are necessary or anticipated in the future. Some street extensions may occur to allow subdivision and development of existing large deep lots. Some street reconfigurations may also occur to manage traffic. Ongoing street maintenance and reconstruction will be required. Functional Classification: Functional classification is a system to establish the hierarchy of streets that collect and distribute traffic from residential neighborhoods to the metropolitan roadway system. The Metropolitan Council has established a functional classification system for the Twin Cities metropolitan area. The classifications include principal arterials, minor arterials (A and B), collector roadways, and local streets. The major characteristics of each of these classifications is summarized in Table_. The functional classification of roadways in Mounds View is shown in Figure . In Mounds View there are two roadways classified as principal arterials. These are Interstate 35W and Highway 10-62 (US Trunk Highway 118). A-minor arterials include Highway 10 , Old Highway 8, and Silver Lake Road. Collector roadways include County Roads H, H-2, and I, Long Lake Road, and the portion of Red Oak Drive north of Highway 10. The remaining roads are classified as local streets. • Jurisdiction: Roadways are also defined by the jurisdiction which has responsibility for the roadway. Figure_ shows the current jurisdiction of the roadways in Mounds View. In recent years functional jurisdiction of roadways has changed as street functions have been reevaluated. Portions of County Road H-2, County Road I, and Spring Lake Road will change from county roads to city streets in 1999. In July of 1999 the jurisdiction of Highway 10 in Mounds View is scheduled to change from the Minnesota Department of Transportation to Ramsey County. Traffic Accident Data: Figure_shows the locations of the recorded accidents during the years 1995 to 1997. During this three-year period there were a total of 514 accidents reported by either state, county or local enforcement agencies within Mounds View's municipal boundaries. Most of these accidents (233, or 45 percent) occurred on U.S. Trunk Highway 10,U.S. Trunk Highway 118 (47, or 9 percent) or along the county roads, such as County Road I (58, or 11.3 percent), Silver Lake Road(24, or 4.7 percent), or Long Lake Road(16, or 3.1 percent). The remaining 124 accidents were spread throughout the City. The majority of the accidents occurred at the intersections of roadways. The Intersections having the highest frequency of accidents were all on Highway 10: Highway 10 and County Road H