Chandan C

4500-5

Bapunagar is a ward which has a unique ward character and identity. This is being understood by the popular landmarks like diamond factory. One of the unique identities of the ward is street activities. In the streets, which are the skeleton of any space, need to be taken into consideration. Streets in Bapunagar like Bapu nagar chaar rasta and Lal Bahadur char Rasta are having Vendor activities on the street. People in Bapunagar are mostly self-employed with some employment opportunities in small scale and large scale industries in and around the ward. Bapunagar has good road network connectivity with well distributed arterial, sub arterial, collector and local roads. Bapunagar is bestowed with roads which are wide, in good condition and with proper street lights. And there are no major issues in terms of road and transport like missing road links, bad condition of roads, incomplete road network. Issues concerned with road and transport in Bapunagar are encroachment by vendors, inadequate pedestrian facilities, and pedestrian vehicular conflicts at the junction. Streets in Bapunagar play a dual role of serving people for mobility as well as income generation. Hence by concept of complete streets space is allocated to all the activities happening on the respective stretches of streets. Issues in the junction are solved by signalizing the junction, islands creation, centralizing roundabout and also by providing foot paths with kerbs around the junction.