Chapter 18 - Land Transport Roads, as public spaces, are used for a variety of purposes. The Plan recognises and provides for a variety of community uses of roads. It is important that the transport infrastructure is able to adapt. New types of vehicles and changing social patterns may give rise to new transport facilities. The growth of cycling for recreation and transport means that there is an increasing need to provide cycle lanes on existing and new roads. The popularity of the Sounds for recreational boating creates demand for vehicle and boat trailer parking at launching areas. The Plan should ensure that such change within the transport infrastructure is able to be accommodated provided that adverse effects are avoided, remedied or mitigated. 18.2.1 Objectives and Policies Objective 1 Development and maintenance of the land transport infrastructure in a way that avoids, remedies or mitigates adverse effects on the Sounds environment, or that reduce the health and safety, and wellbeing of the community of the Sounds. Policy 1.1 Avoid, remedy, or mitigate adverse effects from the land transport infrastructure on the amenity values and natural and physical resources of the Sounds. Policy 1.2 Ensure all new roads and extensions to existing roads are consistent with the District roading hierarchy in the Marlborough Regional Land Transport Strategy, and that all subdivisions and developments of land incorporate provision for the connection of future stages of development to existing roads consistent with the roading hierarchy. Policy 1.3 Require that all new or extended roads are appropriate and necessary to provide safe and convenient access; and will avoid future inappropriate subdivision and development in the coastal environment. Policy 1.4 Maintain amenity values by encouraging the use of national and arterial roads by high volumes of traffic and heavy vehicles; and discourage high volume and heavy traffic use of collector and distributor roads which serve rural areas, or pass through residential areas. Policy 1.5 Require all new roads to be designed and constructed to standards to mitigate adverse environmental effects and enable safety and efficiency of vehicle movement. Policy 1.6 Require all crossing places connecting sites to public roads to be constructed between the kerb line and the property boundary in such a way as to minimise any adverse effect on the safety or convenience of users of public footpaths. Policy 1.7 Ensure that buildings in commercial areas, located adjacent to pedestrian footpaths, provide overhead shelter for users of those footpaths (e.g. overhead verandahs). 18 - 3