2. INTRODUCTION
Roads are meant to facilitate mobility – the
movement of people & goods.
However most roads are widened &
developed for facilitating vehicles rather than
for pedestrians & non motorized vehicle.
Road widening is normally carried out when
the road is inadequate for the traffic using it,
or when extra lanes are needed. Road
widening can improve traffic safety and
capacity.
3. the widening roads are one of the useful
methods to deal with the current long-
standing traffic problems. On the other hand,
we have to also check how road widening
affects the environment (i.e. cutting trees) &
also local residents.
By looking at all these favorable &
unfavorable factors, we came to know that it
is very important to know the Pros & Cons of
Road Widening.
4. REVIEW OF LITERATURE
McBride’s (2013) explained that how environment gets
affect from the project of road widening. While doing the
project some of the trees will be cutoff unnecessarily. He
also explained that how we can conduct the road widening
project without damaging the environment by using correct
and advanced technology.
Asia pulse (2011) states that due to road widening will be
able to manage increased capacity of vehicles. It controls
the traffic of new vehicles in the road and it makes
transportation process easy. The extension of the road once
completed will additionally ease the current traffic condition.
it reduces according to time and increases the driving
5. STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
This study focuses on attempting to know
the importance of Road Widening & the
possible impact on environment &
economic stability of affected area &
especially impact on local residents.
To assess the environmental impact of
road widening in the ecosystem of
particular area and in the topography of
particular area & also to assess the
awareness of public, specially on the
people along the affected area.
6. OBJECTIVES
To analyze the impact of road
widening on local residents.
To know the impact of road widening
on environment.
7. METHODOLOGY OF THE
STUDY
Research type
The type of research used for this study is
descriptive research. Descriptive research is also
known as statistical research, describes data &
characteristics about the population or
phenomenon being studied. It describes & tells us
the relationship between one variable & another
variable.
Sources of study
This study is based on both primary and
secondary data.
Primary data
Primary data was collected through structured
questionnaire.
8. Secondary data
The secondary data was collected from
published sources like books, journals, news
paper & various research articles. Etc.
further, the relevant material & data will be
collected from different websites also.
Sample size
The sample size is 50.
Research tool
The statistical tools such as graphs and pie
chart are used for analysis & we used
reliability statistics & descriptive statistics
9. DATA ANALYSIS &
INTERPRETATION
78%
22%
GENDER
Male
Female
GENDER
Gender Frequency Percentage
Male 39 78
Female 11 22
Total 50 100
INTERPRETATION: In the above table out of 50 respondents, 39 respondents are
male, i.e. 78%. It shows highest number of respondents are male & 11 respondents
are females, i.e. 22%.
10. Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent
Valid
1.0 1 2.0 2.0 2.0
2.0 2 4.0 4.0 6.0
3.0 5 10.0 10.0 16.0
4.0 35 70.0 70.0 86.0
5.0 7 14.0 14.0 100.0
Total 50 100.0 100.0
The environment is affected through road
widening.
INTREPRETATION: From the above table, we can see majority I.e. 35
respondents are agreed that environment is affected through road widening. 7 of
them respondents are strongly agreed on that. 5 respondents are neither agree nor
disagree. 2 are disagreed and only 1 respondent are strongly disagreed.
11. ROAD WIDENING BOOST THE PROPERTY
VALUE
Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative
Percent
Valid
1.0 4 8.0 8.0 8.0
2.0 7 14.0 14.0 22.0
3.0 4 8.0 8.0 30.0
4.0 24 48.0 48.0 78.0
5.0 11 22.0 22.0 100.0
Total
50 100.0 100.0
INTERPRETATION: From the above bar graph we can interpret that out of 50, 24
respondents are agreed that road widening boosted the property value. It shows the
majority of them are agreed. & 11 respondents of them are strongly agreed on that, 7
respondents are disagreed that road widening boost that property value, 4 respondents are
strongly disagreed and 4 respondents are neither agreed nor disagreed.
12. Reliability Statistics
Cronbach's Alpha Cronbach's Alpha
Based on Standardized
Items
N of Items
.475 .488 18
Cronbach's alpha is the most common measure of internal consistency
("reliability"). It is most commonly used when you have multiple Likert
questions in a survey/questionnaire that form a scale and you wish to
determine if the scale is reliable. Cronbach'salpha is 0.475, which
indicates a moderately low level of internal consistency for our scale
with this specific sample. Reliability coefficient of .70 or higher is
considered "acceptable" in most social science research situations. In our
case it is 0.475 it is because of the small sample size and time constraints
in data collection.
13. FINDINGS
72% of people were satisfied with road widening.
Residents get benefited like road widening saves
the commuting time of public & new sewage lines
are introduced & also increases the economical
condition of the locality.
Road widening is reason to cut the road side
trees & the environment is affected through road
widening.
Dust increased in environment due to road
widening process.
Road widening works are not completed on a
time bound basis.
Property value was boosted by the road widening.
14. SUGGESTION
Only 72% of people were satisfied, so our suggestion
is to improve the work efficiency to satisfy more
people.
It’s almost 84% of people said environment is
affected. So, our suggestion is related authority has to
take necessary measure to protect the environment.
The concerned authority & all relating department has
to take necessary steps to complete the road widening
work on a time bound basis.
Try to avoid the cutting of road side trees.
The concerned authority should try to avoid or take
necessary measure to control dust during the road
widening work.
Thus, as per our study, the main suggestion is that
concerned authority has try to improve the efficiency of
road widening work which will leads to reduce the
accidents & improve the economical condition of the
15. CONCLUSION
From the research study, we conclude that, the process of
road widening has favorably & unfavorably impact on
local residents & the environment.
Because of road widening local residents get advantages
like new sewage lines introduced, saves the commuting
time, property value boosted, accidents reduced,
economical condition is increased & disadvantages like
creates relocation issues & health hazards.
In similar way, environment also gets affected through
road widening like dust increases in environment, cutting
of road side trees, depletion of natural resources & also
affects to animals & bird habitat.
& mainly completion of road widening work on a time
bound basis & also willingness to improve the efficiency of
road widening work is required.
Finally we can say “PROS & CONS” of road widening is
like “TWO SIDES OF SAME COIN”.
