City of Khartoum: Status Quo has Little or No Scope for Sustainable Development – an Infrastructure and Planning Perspective, K. Abdalla
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K. Abdalla
North Lanarkshire Council
United Kingdom
The aim of this paper is to review the performance of the city of khartoum with regard to planning and transportation infrastructure. It is true that cities have a major role to play in economic growth and can be a huge powerful force for sustainable Development sD but only if they are well planned and their strategic infrastructure well managed. Good city planning attracts capital investments, encourages in- dustry and manufacturing, facilitates easy transport and trading, invites businesses, drives job creation and increases access to broad spectrum of services. In its current shape, city of khartoum has little or no scope for supporting the economic, environmental, social and cultural processes of achieving sustainable development. As the capital of Sudan the city,s poor roads and transport infrastructure is a key bottle- neck to the nation's development. over the years khartoum has witnessed no improvements in trans por- t ation performance in fact a gradual worsening on road conditions, increasing on vehicle trips, traffic volumes and congestions. The majority of roads within the city, with particular emphasis on junctions, are simply impenetrable. This is a true scenario for almost 20 hours of the day. The chaotic performance and incompetence of the city planning and transport sector that is witnessed today and, over the years, within the capital khartoum is simply a direct result of institutional failures and bad planning. The city cannot stand up for the challenge of implementing Millennium Development Goals MDGs and achieving sD targets. It's the unpleasant fact but heads cannot continue to be buried in the sand. In these current miserable roads and transport situation and, the day-to-day struggle by the people of Khartoum, urban planners, city infrastructure engineers and local authorities are required to proactively act and cannot simply sit back, relax and enjoy the ride.
Citation: Abdalla. K: City of Khartoum: Status Quo has Little or No Scope for Sustainable Development – an Infrastructure and Planning Perspective. In Allam Ahmed(Ed.): Home-Books-Proceedings-SDC, Vol. 1, pp. 18 - 19. WASD: Brighton, United Kingdom.