This report deals primarily with the reactions and opinions of local populations to bypasses, i.e. qualitative effects. The study comprises urban areas with 4,000-19,000 inhabitants and thus does not represent smaller and larger urban areas. The questionnaires, consisted of two sections and made it possible to: 1) compare local inhabitants' opinion on the situation on the through road and in the town centre in towns with and without a bypass; and 2) compare local inhabitants' opinion on the qualitative effects of a bypass in towns with and without a bypass. The analysis provides a direct comparison between the two groups of towns, with and without a bypass respectively. (A) For the first part of this study see C 8015 S (IRRD 879178).
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