MANAGEMENT OF ARU ROAD CORRIDOR AS STREET FOOD COURT IN MERAUKE CITY

Road plays an important role in the economic growth of a city. Character image of a city can be seen from the appearance of the main road corridor. In the Aru road corridor, the activities that occur and the geographical location of the area become potential that can be developed in terms of economic and commercial aspects. The problems in the Aru road corridor include 1). Road shoulders which are the flow of vehicles both in the fast lane and the slow lane are used as vehicle parking areas so that serious handling is required. 2). There is no pedestrian path. The use of road shoulder by street vendors causes the Aru road corridor to become irregular. The methodology used in this study is a qualitative descriptive methodology with data collection methods. The design principles and development strategies that are tried to be applied to the Aru road are for parking, by utilizing a home page or shop yard during the day with two-way circulation. Whereas at night the circulation path changes into one direction with an edge parking system that utilizes the road body. For the arrangement of the pedestrian lane, the road shoulder which is the place for street vendors to sell is organized into a pedestrian during the day and becomes a street food court at night while the area not occupied by street vendors is a pedestrian area to support the area's functions as a commercial area during the day and culinary tourist area at night.