Meja Road in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Meja Road in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Meja Road plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Meja Road's incremental SNDi rose from 4.64 to 7.04 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Meja Road ranked 265th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1707th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 7.04
- Rank in India
- 1569th of 1868
- Rank in Uttar Pradesh
- 251st of 291
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 6.13
- Rank in India
- 1707th of 1868
- Rank in Uttar Pradesh
- 265th of 291
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Lop Buri, Thailand
- Kongolo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Domariaganj, India
- Craiova, Romania
- Ikare, Nigeria
- Cape Coral, United States
While Lop Buri and Craiova both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Meja Road fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Lop Buri and Craiova both became progressively more disconnected, while Meja Road fluctuated in connectivity.