Chapter 3: Local Road Planning 59 Figure 3.5 Levels of Accessibility and Mobility for a Functional Road Hierarchy The development and management of local roads is an important mandate of the LGU, for which significant capital investments are required. However, local fiscal capacity is always limited and resources have to be prioritized including those for the local road sector. The configuration of the local road network will greatly assist the LGUs in prioritizing resources for the local road sector. Presently, there are no specific guidelines on planning the road network of an LGU issued by national government agencies having oversight functions over LGUs. However, there are certain principles on local road network planning that have already been proposed in general by other guidelines. This means that local roads (within an administrative class – provincial, city, municipal or barangay) may be configured into a hierarchal network with varying degree of accessibility and mobility. The local road network may be configured based on the following basic functional hierarchy: a. Arterial Roads. A local road may be classified as an arterial local road if it provides the highest level of service at the greatest speed for the longest uninterrupted distance, with some degree of access control. This means that an arterial