Local Road Management Manual 63 objectives of the LGU. A core road network can also be deifned as the minimum road network required to support the economic and social development by providing good quality road linkages between the major population, industrial and culturally valuable locations within the LGU. At the national level, the equivalence of a core road network would be the national primary and secondary roads across the country, whether these are arterial, radial or circumferential in nature. For instance, Metro Manila with its web of circumferential and radial roads (e.g. EDSA and Aurora Boulevard, respectively) can be considered as the core road network for the metropolis. And consequently, signiifcant capital investments have been prioritized by DPWH along these arterial roads. In the same vein, an LGU can prioritize its limited resources to a local core road network that contribute most to its envisioned spatial development as embodied in its PDPFP. Developing a core road network requires evaluating each local road to a set of multi-sectoral criteria that contributes most to the over-all spatial and sectoral development of the LGU. The most common criteria to evaluate a local road and determine if it forms part of a core road network are the following: a. Access and connectivity. These refer to local roads that provide general access to land use and connectivity from one land use to another. Access and connectivity as a selection criteria do not differentiate on the nature or type of land use; b. Access to social and health services. These are provincial roads that facilitate social and health services to communities; c. Access/promote economic activities. This pertains to provincial roads that provide access to economic areas (or activities) thereby promoting economic development at the local level. Areas with economic activities may pertain to agro-industrial, production, processing and tourism areas; d. Environment and hazard factors. Provincial roads should avoid environmentally critical areas and locations with
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