Importance of Roads

 

  • Roads play a very important role in the transportation of goods and passengers for short & medium distances
  • Road transport system establishes easy contact between farms, fields, factories and markets and provides for door to door service
  • Roads can negotiate high gradients and sharp turns, which railways cannot do. As such, roads can be constructed in hilly areas too
  • Roads act as good feeders to railways. Without good and sufficient roads, railways cannot collect sufficient produce to make their operation possible