Social and cultural Assessment of the Mirdamad Boulevard bicycle route construction project
Subject Areas : ارزیابی تأثیرات اجتماعی، فرهنگی، اقتصادی، محیط زیستی و... سیاستها، برنامهها، طرحها و پروژهها
rahman jahanidowlatabad
1
,
Esmail jahanidowlatabad
2
,
maryam abhari
3
,
Neda Mirakbari
4
1 - Administrative and clerical affairs expert, Technical and Vocational University No. 1, Tabriz.
2 - دانشیار گروه جامعهشناسی دانشگاه محقق اردبیلی
3 - Director of the Department of Regional Applied Studies, Tehran Studies and Planning Center.
4 - Urbanization Researcher, Tehran City Planning and Studies Center
Keywords: bicycle path, assessment of social and cultural impacts, Mirdamad Blvd., Tehran.,
Abstract :
The Mirdamad Boulevard bicycle path project has been implemented for several years and has reached the operational stage, but the available evidence shows that the above-mentioned project has faced various challenges in practice and has deviated from its goals. This issue has raised the need to study the social attachment for it. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and predict the consequences of the construction of a bicycle path in Mirdamad Boulevard in order to increase its positive effects and reduce its negative effects. According to the nature of the project and the scope of the study, quantitative and qualitative methods, specifically the method of survey, interview and analysis of experts' opinions, have been used to collect information. The sample size for the purposeful survey was 200 and the number of interviews was about 50. The evaluation of the project's consequences has been carried out in the form of three scenarios of continuation of the status quo, adjustment of the status quo and change of the status quo. The results of the research indicate that the most issues and problems of the studied area that have overshadowed the effects of the project were prioritized in the physical-activity, transportation and traffic, and social and cultural fields, respectively. The implementation of the project in the form of the continuation of the status quo scenario will bring the continuation of the challenges of the current situation. Also, the investigations showed that the implementation of the project in the form of the scenario of adjusting the existing situation also has adverse effects such as the continuation of the presence of motorcycles on the bicycle path, the increase in accidents and life risks, the deprivation of the comfort and peace of the residents, the reduction of the economic prosperity of the business, the continuation of the presence of sleeping cars. And renting a parking space brings pessimism and lack of trust in the city management, the formation of dissatisfactions, etc. For this purpose, another scenario was proposed and in that form, the proposed plan of the research group was presented by adopting the approach of "changing the existing situation" and emphasizing the gradual and long-term approach.
