ROW

Right of Way (ROW) is a right to make road or way over a piece of land . ROW is the area around a road, pipeline that is either government- or privately-owned for which you receive permission to work on. This is especially important when anyone is working in transportation projects.

There are lots of aspects of ROW but I am going to talk about it mainly from transportation side.

Let's take anexample of the highway which goes from one state to another, suppose that the width of the highway is 10 meters but the government Authority may own a 20 meter wide area.

Now the question iswhat is the need for this extra piece of land? Why the government needs additional land?

The government holds a Right of way wider than actual required area for many reasons. They use extra land for constructing sidewalks, utilities or to widen the road in future. Also street lights, Traffic Signals and street parking’s comes under Right of way.