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ABSTRACT
The rapid rate of changing land use in urban areas has reached alarming proportions. These
changes are observable along major transport routes and virtually all changes that occur on
land have profound effects on roads. The aim of this study was to assess the problems as well as
the implications of changing land uses and traffic congestion in the study area. The study
adopted the systematic random sampling technique to obtain data through questionnaire
administration. Field survey was undertaken using the road network map and the land use map
of the study area. Some of the problems noticed alongroads in the study area include: traffic
congestion, parking inadequacies, accidents, haphazard/indiscriminate display of
signpost/billboards, over stretching of road infrastructures and noise pollution.These problems
have serious implications on the environment and in order to ameliorate the problems posed by
changing land uses in the study area, the following recommendations were suggested; closure of
land uses that do not have adequate parking space, embarking on land use and transportation
studies from time-to-time particularly in areas where these changes perceived, monitoring the
changes in land use along roads in order to give a vivid picture of the changes over time as well
as address the problems associated with such changes and restriction of unnecessary change in
use of land.
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