IMPLEMENTING THE PLAN

Incorporating strategies to achieve improved network, required to generate supporting information as way forward. Supporting data was gathered through various onsite surveys and by taking interviews of important stake holders in Chandkheda and then the ways were carried out to incorporate strategies.

Project I: Extend the streets to form a complete network in order to improve street connectivity, accessibility and to reduce block sizes.

Initially to identify incomplete streets, analysis of existing street network has been done, with supporting data of spatial survey of Street network. Identification and reconnection of missing links, by continuing the streets, removing dead-ends and with frequent intersections, to form a complete street network, which would provide good connectivity and efficient traffic and pedestrian flow

Extended streeets would also reduce the block sizes which will reduce the travelling distance and time of user. It offers people alternative routes to reach at the destination. Mainly it will improve the accessibility to transit corridors within different areas of Chandkheda.

Project II: Proposing new streets as area goes into Redevelopment

Redevelopment is likely to happen in the areas which has old built fabric. Land falling under redevelopment provides an opportunity to carve out or extend new streets. The building age map is highlighting the built fabric which is 30-50 or more than 50 years old. Hence in coming 2030 years, the land provides opportunity to carve out new streets as those areas will go under redevelopment. As an example to show the procedure, a chunk of land has taken which is along TOZ road and has existing built fabric of 30-50 years old. The area today consists a particular development. New streets and blocks are proposed for the area which would be appropriated when the plot is redeveloped. With the future plot configuration, proposed streets would be achieved with proposed blocks.

Project III: Prioritizing public land to carve out public streets

Prioritization public land to carve out public streets as public land has higher potential as a resource. Streets in GHB, ONJC area have been carved out from Public land and streets in North periphery and near new cg road area have been carved out from Private land. Also availability of vacant plots in public land is beneficial. In given example, the land falls under public domain and belongs to ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited).Also, the land has availability of vacant plot is beneficial, as there is no built fabric present. Hence the land provides higher potential to carve out new streets. Land falling under public domain and belong to VGEC (Vishawkarma Government Engineering Collage)

Project IV: REDEFINING HIERARCHY OF PREDOMINANT STREETS TO SUPPORT CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY

The present predominate streets that has potential to emerge through their functions and comparatively more users, the way forward is to expand the minimal street hierarchy. Expanding hierarchy of currently predominant streets to support the functionality and accommodate maximum number of users.

Considerations:

1. Including margin lines if any available

2.considering right of way in case of area falls under redevelopment.

Expanding in Set-back

In given example, a predominant street present in GHB and has setback of 3.00 m along it. Hence including margin lines, the street has been expanded from 12 m. to 15 m. and the hierarchy of the street is redefined.

As per the analysis, identified issues of incomplete Astreets, large block sizes and minimal street hierarchy has been resolved by adapting strategies of continuing streets and expanding hierarchy of streets.

27.0% area under streets, of which

3.1% under Arterial roads

6.2% under Sub-Arterial roads

7.4% under Collector streets

9.5% under Local streets

Overview

“If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful fulfilling places to be community- building places, attractive public places for all people of cities and neighborhood, then we will have successfully designed about one third of the city directly and will have had an immense impact on the rest”. - ‘Great streets’ Allan Jacob

Streets shape the type of the city and how we travel through it. Streets accommodate buildings, people, goods, services, vehicles, vegetation, furniture, lighting but also as front yards for parks, playground and public spaces. Streets are the most utilized and most noticeable open resources a city has. They must be safe, sustainable, resilient. To assemble great urban areas and towns, first form great streets.

Indian streets battle to accommodate the contending necessities of mobility and live ability. as percentage of private vehicle is growing day by day, it is very difficult to hold sufficient space for other social activities in our streets. Over time, streets have come to function less as social gathering spaces and market areas, and more as conduits for an ever-increasing volume of traffic.

In an urban fringe context, streets must meet the needs of people, vehicles, transit, all in a constrained space. The best street design includes all street design elements such as footpaths, cycle lanes, landscape, vending, service lanes, carriage lanes, transit lanes, parking etc.