It is
impossible a city without transport that
provides functioning and connection of separate
regions. Transport determines a town face - cars
streams, transport networks and constructions,
speed roads, transport circles, bridges and
trestle bridges, buses and railway stations.
However transport is the most dangerous air
pollution sources. During 70 last years total
streets length enlarged approximately 8-9 times.
It is 1,6 thousand km length of trams gauges
enlarged 1,6 times, the number of carriages
increased 4 times, trolley -bus lines increase
87 times (from 3,5 km in 1935 to 305 km now),
the number of trolley bus - from 4 to 1100.
Length of
bus routes increased by the most high rates,
specially into period of 60-90ths. The first bus
route in Kyiv was laid in 1925, it was about 3
km. Today there are about 110 routed by total
length almost 1,5 thousand km that are served
approximately by 1000 busses.
The
taxi-motor park consists now 3,5 thousand cars
(by the way, in 1913 was only 20). Today in the
town there are more than 470 thousand units of
motor transport means, including 298 thousand
cars, 42 thousand lorries and 6 thousand busses.
The number
of filling stations and realization of fuel
lubricating materials considerably increased. It
is necessary to add road and other engineering
special equipment with engines of internal
combustion.
In
according to statistics data, motor transport
emissions in 1998 composed 54,737 thousand tons
in the town, more then half total emissions.
Considerable part into pollution of air
basin is brought also by the transit motor
transport means, and also ones arrived into Kyiv
from other towns. The number of such cars is
50-70 thousand units a day, according to the
Kyiv DAI (The State Transport Inspection)data.
Their emissions are controll by nobody and are
not taken into account by statistics
organizations.
Motor-car
transport belongs to intensively increasing
pollutants of environment. It is difficult to
fight against such a pollutant. The engines, as
it's known, dispose of into air a considerable
amount of carbon oxides, carbo-hydrate
combinations, nitric oxides, combinations of
lead and other toxic and carcinogenic matters.
It takes place through amount increasing and
worsening of technical state of motor-car park,
unsatisfactory fuel quality, lag of development
rates of road network, difficulties of number of
motor transport calculation (as pollutants)
insufficiently developed legislative and
juridical base for effective management of motor
transport as ecologically dangerous units.
The cars
number in town caused their more intensive
traffic, higher pollution levels of environment,
that connected with human health. Smog attacks
stronger Kyiv. And gas-laden atmospheric air is
a component part of ecological crisis of the
city.
Increasing
acoustic pollution of urban environment also
causes sizably troubles to habitants, negatively
influences on their health and psychic state.
With development of all of transport means, a
noise pressure on human health increases. It
causes a rough, psychic unbalanced state,
insomnia and as consequence- cardiac-vascular
and mental affections. Now in Kyiv streets in
many regions and micro-region noise reaches
80-90 decibels a day, and 50-60 decibels a
night. It is impossible to think by normal
phenomenon. Researches show, that acoustic
pollution of urban environment is one of
probably factors, that leads to increase of
hypertension illness and myocardium coronary
thrombosis.