A road reserve is space reserved by the roadside to accommodate at a later stage, aspects like underground telephone cables, water pipes, drainage channels and pedestrian walkways.
At a later stage, the road reserve can be used for expansion of the road when traffic density increases and the road cannot handle the capacity anymore.
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