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| Tehran Mayor: Improve Public Transit to fight air pollution |
| 2010-12-12 |
| TEHRAN -- Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has said that improvement of the public transport is the effective solution to the chronic air pollution in Tehran. "If the public transport system has a sufficient capacity for transportation of passengers in Tehran, then officials can call on citizens to use the public transport when the air pollution reaches high levels," Qalibaf said as he opened a metro station in central Tehran on Saturday. Heavy air pollution has gripped Tehran over the past few weeks and has not dissipated despite all emergency measures such as closing schools, universities and government offices, imposing special traffic restrictions and spraying water on the capital by airplanes. Officials have urged the citizens to use the public transport instead of their own cars, but many people prefer to use their cars due to the inefficiency of the public transport system. - Some cars have removed pollution control devices also, however, 90% of the problem is almost certainly due to the gasoline produced in Iran. It has lots of sulfur and heavy metal in it. Mullah officials sometimes defend the gasoline and sometimes blame the US; finally, some rain is expected the next two days which will .- a and finally finally a sports event was postponed because of pollution Dec 10. |
| Posted by:Lord Garth |