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Assessing challenges of urban roads infrastructure planning and provision in Secondary towns in Uganda, A case of Kitgum Town council.

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In most developing countries, Uganda inclusive, the demand for the transport sector is very high yet the resources available to government to provide adequate transport services are limited. The growth of transport is important for the development of the economy because it facilitates trade, tourism, mobility and cultural exchange. Uganda’s transport infrastructure includes roads, railways, piers, jetties, aerodromes, runways and taxiways. It has been noted that the growth of transport and communications increased by 14.4 per cent in the year 2003/04 from the previous year (UBOS 2004a).
The modes of transport in KTC are road and air. The majority of the people use road transport mainly because it is cheaper. Kitgum has a total road network of 37.69km grouped in three classes, paved, gravelled and earthed roads. The earthed roads take up only 23.96km, gravelled take up to 10km while the paved roads cover the remaining 3.73km.
Roads are central to socio economic development and poverty alleviation. Economies and Society depend heavily on efficient roads.

it is a basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operations of a society or enterprises or the service and facilities needed for an economy to function.

Paved roads are defined as concrete or bitumen surfaced roads. The definition excludes stone, gravel, water-bound gravel, oil-bound gravel and earth roads.
In many countries most roads are unpaved and very often a large proportion of these unpaved roads are intransitable, in particular duringthe rainy season. Platteau (1994) p. 23. largeamount of damage is also due to the neglect of routine maintenance during the war.
Road rehabilitation has been given a key role in the Ugandan rehabilitation programme. First, the main road connections and the urban road

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