Bantwal Cross Road in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Bantwal Cross Road plotted against Karnataka and India. The SNDi of new construction in Bantwal Cross Road rose steadily, compared to Karnataka which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Bantwal Cross Road's incremental SNDi rose from 7.31 to 9.95 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bantwal Cross Road ranked 95th out of 96 cities in Karnataka and 1761st out of 1868 in India as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Sahel Silim, Egypt
• Gummi, Nigeria
• Rabakavi Banahatti, India
• Xintian, China
• Souk El Arbaa, Morocco
• посёлок Нагорный, Russia

In new street additions, Bantwal Cross Road built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Sahel Silim built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Xintian fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Bantwal Cross Road became progressively more disconnected, while Sahel Silim became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Xintian grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Bantwal Cross Road and Sahel Silim have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.