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Transportation <br />There are various categories of roads within Kittitas County that are administered and maintained <br />by different agencies and property owners, including federal, state, county, city, and private. <br />• Federal roads include the interstate highway system and US Forest Service roads. These <br />roads are administered by federal agencies. <br />• &Ile. roads include highways that are administered and mainmined by the Washington State <br />Department of Transportation and Department of Natural Resource roads, which provide <br />direct access to state Janda. <br />• County roads are officially adopted onto the Kittitas County Road system by the Board of <br />County Commissioners and are also known as "on-system" roads. The county is responsible <br />for maintenance and improvements to 1hese roads. <br />• ~ roads are administered and maintained by the cities of Cle Elum, Ellensburg, Kittitas, <br />Roslyn, and the Town of South Cle Elum. <br />• ~ roads are usually created by developments. They are owned, controlled. and typically <br />maintained by private property owners. Private roads can be dedicated to the public through a <br />platting process or by being used by the public for over 10 years without being accepted as a <br />part of the county road system by the Board of County Commissioners. These roads are <br />known as public .. off system" roads and cannot be gated or obstructed. <br />County Roads <br />The Long-Range Transportation Plan, adopted by reference, provides a summary of the county <br />road log inventmy of existing conditions for all county on-system roads. They are grouped <br />according to :functional classification and include mileage for each road and then a total for each <br />classification. The "Urban" and "Rural" classifications refer to the federal urban area around <br />Ellensburg. Also included in the Long-Range Transportation Plan is an inventory of existing <br />conditions including pavement width, pavement type, a history of Average Daily Traffic (ADT) <br />volumes, roadway capacity, and roadway level of service (LOS). <br />Changes to Road Inventory <br />Some of the existing county roads may be vacated or annexed in any given year. Road vacations <br />take the mileage off the inventory through a public transfer of the property. Annexations of <br />properties into city limits can involve transferring ownership and maintenance responsibilities of <br />adjacent roads to a city. Road vacations and annexations remove road mileage from the county <br />road log inventory. <br />Just as annexations and vacations remove roads from the inventory, construction of new county <br />roads adds mileage to the inventory. New roads can be consbucted either by County resources or <br />as part of developments. <br />Other Transportation Modes <br />There are several alternative transportation modes utilized in Kittitas County other than driving <br />passenger vehicles on roads. These transportation modes include rail, truck service, public <br />transportation, air, and non-motorized systems . The Long-Range Transportation Plan that is <br />Kittitas County <br />Comprehensive Plan 4-2 <br />December 2016