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City Development Plan for Allahabad Final Report
11.0 Roads and Transportation
11.1
Transportation
System
11.1.1 Road
Network Details
Transport infrastructure forms the backbone of any economy. It plays a very
significant role in the growth and development of the city. It is also responsible,
besides other factors, for the spatial growth of the city by increasing the
accessibility of sites on the periphery of the city.
The objective of studying the transport sector is to analyze the role of transport in
the present scenario and to identify its strengths and weaknesses. The road and
the rail sectors play a very significant role in Allahabad and the peripheral region.
The road network (Figure 29) characteristics vary through the city. The network
can be divided into three major areas in terms of road hierarchy– the old city area,
civil lines, and the rest of the city.
The Old City constitutes the core of the present city structure providing not only
residential land use but also educational, commercial (retail, wholesale), small
scale manufacturing of iron, plastics, wooden goods etc. The old city has an
irregular road network comprising of major roads, which are almost 2-3 lane
wide. A conspicuous feature of the layout of arteries is that all of them are linked
with the main transport artery, the Grand Trunk Road which passes through the
heart of the area and hence interlinked with each other. The secondary roads are
narrower and congested due to encroachment; the best examples are Attarsuiya
and Malvia Nagar. Another significant observation made is that in the south of
the GT road, there is an absence of broad roads, whereas to its north lie the major
broad, arterial road network of Zero Road, Leader Road, Swami Vivekanand
Road, Johnsonganj Road etc.
The road conditions are good inside the walled city, but the road capacity is
reduced due to the presence of a large number of slow moving vehicles and idle
parking. There is a high level of conflict between pedestrians and vehicular traffic
in several parts. The old city comprises of closely spaced residential areas of
Mohatsamganj, Badshai Mandi, Bahadurganj and Malviya Nagar. The wholesale
and retail trade activities are also located in this part of the city which further
creates congestion and bottlenecks.
The Civil Lines area was reserved solely for the Britishers during the colonial
period. The imprints of planning caste their shadow in the civil lines area, as one
can catch the sight of spacious residential areas (mostly Bunglows).
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