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Apr
28
There are so many sayings about roads; “There are many roads that lead to
Indonesian citizens know very well the quality of our roads. In most cities (I’ll take
Our roads aren’t able to serve citizens’ needs optimally, as they have very low asphalt quality. Damage to road surfaces does not only require regular attention and maintenance (which naturally costs quite a bit of money), but also chokes our nation’s own economic growth due to the delay in the circulation of goods and services. Not only that,we should consider the social cost that the damages cause to society. One simple example is congestion. Damaged roads can cause congestion, and as we know, congestion is not only an annoying thing for motorists, but also for society as a whole. The amount of economic pressure caused by the high fuel demand is a (big or small?) effect of the amount of fuel wasted for absolutely nothing! Not to mention the environmental impacts of congestion (noise, air pollution). Safety is another issue that we must consider when talking about damaged roads. Water puddles appear during, and remain shortly after, rainfall on uneven road surfaces. Should an accident occur, who’s to blame? The motorist? The rain?? Often people have the burden of fixing the roads (especially the roads around their neighborhood) on their own cost. Most, if not all Kampongs invite their residents to raise the road surface to avoid floods (I’m gonna talk about this in another article, I promise).
To avoid the routine maintenance on our roads, then it is apparent that we have to raise the standards in road building to support our citizens’ needs and activities optimally. Raising the standards can be done by firstly changing the way we fix our roads (generally by patching them up, creating uneven surfaces everywhere) so that the roads have an even surface. The surface itself has to be set in a certain angle to let water flow off of the roads and into canals perfectly, to avoid water puddles and minimize the possibility of aqua-planing, hence making roads safer for motorists, and making the road practically maintenance free.
Besides the surface design, roads must also have the strength to support as much load as possible (according to its category of course…artery, collector, etc.). So far, many companies have had to reduce the load of their transport vehicles so that they do not damage road surfaces (or pay higher tax). This step (reducing the load) results in adding more vehicles to their transport armada, increasing the chances of congestion, and swells up the companies’ budgets due to the amount of fuel consumed by the vehicles. If the roads were able to support almost unlimited load, then surely transporting goods and services will no longer be a big problem. Companies can use bigger vehicles, to haul larger loads, reducing the amount of vehicles on the road, and reduce the chances of congestion, and reduce fuel costs, ultimately reducing the nation-wide economic pressure due to fuel demands.
Having accomplished all that I have mentioned above, (hopefully) may result in a better economic growth for
Save Our Nation, Fix Our Roads!
Related article about path: http://ar-chi-tect.org/kevin-lynch-and-the-image-of-the-city-theory
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Road related to three of the urban design aspects(Hamid Shirvani): Circulation and parking, Pedestrian ways, and Signage. Yet this three aspect should be maintain well as one of city infrastructure.
Let’s take an example in Semarang, Indonesia, (Semarang abandoned urban design aspect, suara merdeka) so that we’ve found from nanda’s article that this phenomena is not just happen in one city, but many cities!
Who should be responsible for this?
Road also related with Lynch’s theory, image of the city=”Path“. As an image, people should consider that road is one of the city beautification attempt. - Agree with u Nanda, If you want to attract more people to come to your city, fix the road first!
I think this is happen because of the overload of traffic congestion, also comes from the related industries that brought many dump-trucks and heavy vehicles to walk on those roads.
thanks for the feedback, fellas. just a comment for Caca’s comment, I mentioned that if our roads have better load capacity, then our roads will never be damaged from mere overload, and heavy traffic
one more thing: my English sucks in this article. I haven’t written for a while.
We have the same issues with our roads here in Utah. Every year we are replacing the roads around entire state after winter.
same here in dubai, folks!
Wuiyy…talking about road… (lalalala) no nothing about the structure et.al ~^_^~ all I know is gara2 lubang gede dijalanan akhirnya merenggut nyawanya Mr. Sophan Sophian.. (T_T) THAT IS DESTRUCTION! No..that is DEATHSTRUCTION!