Mobilidade urbana insurgente: anteprojeto urbano de readequação viária para a BR-104 em Rio Largo-AL

Abstract

This final graduation work aims to present an urban draft developed from strategies for road readjustment of urban perimeters of highways, elaborated from the case study of the stretch of the BR-104 located in Rio Largo city, proposing an urban configuration that attends not only the needs of motorized transport users, but mainly those of active transport users, mostly used by the residents of the region. After the 2010 flood, which devastated the lower and central part of the municipality, about 7.273 families were reestablished in new housing projects, in addition to approximately 30 residential condominiums, located in the highest and flattest area of the municipality, away from the river, on the sides of the highway. The occupation gradually increased the number of traffic accidents such as being run overs and collisions, reaching the marks of 10 deaths and 62 injuries to health in 2013 in the study cutout, a stretch that has only 8,57 km, evidencing the need for readjustment of the highway after the inauguration of this projects, looking to attend the needs of the population that would come to occupy these locations. The methodological procedures used were the characterization of the area, from the cartographic elaboration and crossing of socioeconomic, urban and traffic data; study of theoretical references on cities for people, insurgent urbanism, feminist urbanism and urban mobility; and analysis and manuals of traffic legislation. It was concluded that the implementation of general strategies such as reducing the width of the road lanes, reducing the maximum speed allowed, expanding public lighting, maintaining vegetation, in addition to insurgent strategies such as prioritizing the implementation of public sidewalks, bike paths, support for animal-drawn transport and signposted pedestrian crossings can make urban space safer, more democratic and healthier.