TITLE:
Social Issues of Urban Road Rehabilitation
AUTHORS:
W. Supul
KEYWORDS:
Tajikistan, Social Urban Road Rehabilitation, Trees, Disable People
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.6 No.3,
September
25,
2018
ABSTRACT: This study highlights the social issues of an urban road confronted after the
recent rehabilitation works. The study reveals that the road has facilitated
faster travel with rider comfort but does not provide a very safe place for residents,
children of the kindergarten and school and, walkers. The study has
identified several social impacts caused by rehabilitation such as walker and
resident un-comfort, inconvenience for businesses, not abating environmental
pollution, absence of facilities for disable people and several more. Because
the road platform is devoid of trees, the motorists, residents and pedestrians
are stripped off of an array of benefits. Nor the road design has considered
the comfort of walkers especially disable, elderly, sick and children by not
providing a fully connected road walkway and not providing any tree shade
and benches to have a rest on a hot and sunny day. The road has also not addressed
environmental concerns especially the mechanisms for reduction of
impacts of particle and other noxious gases emanating from motor vehicle
movement on inhabitants. A method to analyze road impacts is included that
serves as an aid for future rehabilitation of urban roads.