Aside from the section on habitat fragmentation most of this article is focusing on the Environmental impacts of motor vehicles which is obviously covered by other articles. It's important distinction because roads are not only used by cars and so the negative aspects of cars on roads may not apply to other vehicles on the road e.g bicycles. The Environmental impact of roads themselves should be things like : road construction negative impacts. The materials that roads are made of that could have negative Environmental impacts. More talk about habitat disruption and the effects on the movements of animals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JoshuaPickett ( talk • contribs) 04:18, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
New article created from section in the Road article as per discussion on talk:Road. PeterEastern ( talk) 06:06, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
I suggest that the primary focus of this article is on the direct environmental impacts of road construction (water, noise, habitat disruption, heat islands, quarrying for materials etc) and then also the secondary effects from the use of the roads (emissions from vehicles, opening up access into forest area promoting logging, noise from vehicles, cultural interference). PeterEastern ( talk) 07:09, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
I note that currently only negative environmental impacts of roads have been included. It is a very new article, and obviously needs time to develop, so let's hope that the addition of the essential balance will begin to appear very soon. I'll see if I can find time to assist with this activity. -- de Facto ( talk). 15:06, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
Roads are indeed sometimes justified on the grounds of improved air quality on other parts of the network however induced demand tends to result in new traffic replacing the relieved traffic on the old roads - the Newbury bypass being a well-known example. Transportation demand management is generally required on relieved roads to protect them from that effect. Needless to say that more road tend to mean more overall air pollution but it may move it from an urban area to a rural area. I am not attempting to integrate this content into the article yet. PeterEastern ( talk) 01:45, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
KVDP ( talk) 09:01, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
According to the documentary "L'Homme et la mer [1]", 50% of all humans (and even higher percentages in Africa) live at less than 1 km of the sea. It can thus be argued that building so much cross-country raods (highways) is not justifyable, especially seeing the environmental damage these inflict.
Mention in article KVDP ( talk) 09:01, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Aside from the section on habitat fragmentation most of this article is focusing on the Environmental impacts of motor vehicles which is obviously covered by other articles. It's important distinction because roads are not only used by cars and so the negative aspects of cars on roads may not apply to other vehicles on the road e.g bicycles. The Environmental impact of roads themselves should be things like : road construction negative impacts. The materials that roads are made of that could have negative Environmental impacts. More talk about habitat disruption and the effects on the movements of animals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JoshuaPickett ( talk • contribs) 04:18, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
New article created from section in the Road article as per discussion on talk:Road. PeterEastern ( talk) 06:06, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
I suggest that the primary focus of this article is on the direct environmental impacts of road construction (water, noise, habitat disruption, heat islands, quarrying for materials etc) and then also the secondary effects from the use of the roads (emissions from vehicles, opening up access into forest area promoting logging, noise from vehicles, cultural interference). PeterEastern ( talk) 07:09, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
I note that currently only negative environmental impacts of roads have been included. It is a very new article, and obviously needs time to develop, so let's hope that the addition of the essential balance will begin to appear very soon. I'll see if I can find time to assist with this activity. -- de Facto ( talk). 15:06, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
Roads are indeed sometimes justified on the grounds of improved air quality on other parts of the network however induced demand tends to result in new traffic replacing the relieved traffic on the old roads - the Newbury bypass being a well-known example. Transportation demand management is generally required on relieved roads to protect them from that effect. Needless to say that more road tend to mean more overall air pollution but it may move it from an urban area to a rural area. I am not attempting to integrate this content into the article yet. PeterEastern ( talk) 01:45, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
KVDP ( talk) 09:01, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
According to the documentary "L'Homme et la mer [1]", 50% of all humans (and even higher percentages in Africa) live at less than 1 km of the sea. It can thus be argued that building so much cross-country raods (highways) is not justifyable, especially seeing the environmental damage these inflict.
Mention in article KVDP ( talk) 09:01, 17 July 2013 (UTC)