The construction and reconstruction of primary infrastructure leads, in many instances, to new problems. One of the problems involved is that of discontinuing secondary routes, i.e. roads and paths which may be important for local access to buildings, premises and smaller properties as well as water-courses which fulfil a largely recreational function. This in turn may lead to a drastic reduction in the quality of such routes, particularly for the slower modes of transport. To this end a method has been developed which concerns the consequences of intersecting local routes when building main roads, national railways and primary waterways. This method consists of the following three steps: the descriptive method (whether or not there is mention of a problem of intersection); the approximate method (comparison between the route alternatives and the route variants); and the detailed method (comparison of the consequences of discontinuing and retaining local or secondary routes).
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