Local Collectors Versus Major Infrastructural Works

Catharinus F. Jaarsma () and Wim Heijman ()
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Catharinus F. Jaarsma: Wageningen University
Wim Heijman: Wageningen University

Chapter 5 in Regional Externalities, 2007, pp 91-105 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Cohesion between city and surrounding area is essential in the metropolitan landscape. However, this relationship is under strain. Firstly, the infrastructures, which are difficult to cross, are concentrated in exactly the transition zones of city and countryside, where — certainly for cyclists and pedestrians — the surrounding area is often difficult to reach from a residential area and vice-versa. Secondly, road users in the surrounding area are confronted with the loss of local connections because railways have been cleared of intersections or because new main infrastructure has been built. Current government policy considers this situation, but, in actuality, the focus is still too one-sided concentrating on construction costs and (railway) safety. A modification of this policy and a certain protection of local connections (including provisions for pedestrians and cyclists) within the framework of town and country planning are urgently needed. Because of the current developments, the metropolitan landscape is in danger of being divided into small ‘compartments’, which will only be connected by long indirect routes. A more integral approach and establishment of close-knit structures in Regional and Provincial Traffic and Transportation Planning Schemes can offer guarantees for more cohesion in the lowest categories of the road and path network.

Keywords: Minor rural roads; Secondary roads; Railways; Rural traffic; Slow traffic; metropolitan landscape; Recreational networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-35484-0_5

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