Impactos da BR-440 na mobilidade urbana da Cidade Alta, Juiz de Fora/MG

Abstract

Urban mobility can be affected by several factors. However, proposals to improve road circulation and local urban mobility can represent a setback when, instead of promoting progress, they imply setbacks and impacts. The implementation of the BR-440 highway in the urban area of the city of Juiz de Fora/MG and its trajectory in local urban plans is critically analyzed. Opportunely, the concept of urban mobility is presented, shaped by socio-historical events and distinguished from synonymizations of other associated concepts, in order to bring approaches that express it as close to reality. The emergence of the city is contextualized with the opening of another road, the Estrada Nova do Paraibuna, and of the area impacted by the road in the so-called Cidade Alta, and also the repercussion of the Brazil’s Second National Development Plan in close relation to the development of projects local areas, the Mediumsized Cities Project in Juiz de Fora and the Plano Diretor da Cidade Alta. The construction process of the road was discussed, rescued from a 1979 road project in the early 1990s that gave rise to Via São Pedro. However, it was found that the specific technical adjustments made to the project were not able to equate or minimize the socioeconomic and socioenvironmental impacts imposed on the population and the environment. It was observed, however, the imposition of local public managers in continuing a project that proved to be unfeasible, since its conception due to the various interferences that it could cause and did cause in its execution, without considering the changes in urban densification and population growth in this area. course and along the route of the road. In this way, the influence of urban plans on the population's quality of life was reflected.