Assessment of Social and Cultural Impacts of the Reforming Plan of the Road Network in Bimeh District

The road networks of bimeh project with the goal of facilitating traffic in the inner passages of bimeh network, strengthening the eastern-western routes, facilitating access to the surrounding network, reducing the traffic load of the main roads in bimeh district is planned for area 6 of region 5, and among the priorities in consultant’s mind, there have been cases such as reopening a number of blind alleys and making some of the passages unilateral. Since the improvement of urban roads reduces many environmental, psychological, cultural-religious, social problem and etc. This project at the current stage and at the stage of being fully operational and ultimately in exploitation stage will have several positive and negative consequences on the affected society. Evaluating the consequences of project has been carried out by using a combination of quantitative (scaling) and qualitative (individual and group interviews). The statistical society consisted of all residents and exploiters, critics and experts, city officials and various organizations and members of the council of bimeh district. The results revealed that 90% of the respondents considered reforming the routes of bimeh district network as one of the prior local needs. Finally, the outcomes of ease of access, saving inhabitants and visitors to the area’s time, reducing the mental stress caused by heavy traffic jams, increasing satisfaction from municipality’s performance, improvement in tradesmen’s business, high adaptation of the plan to local prior needs, improvement in noise pollution, the exit of the district from deadlock, raise in price of real estate, deterioration of air quality, increase in social harms by providing access to harmful places, dissatisfaction of the residents of neighboring areas from the access of bimeh district to their neighborhood (Apadana) were identified in the current project.

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