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    In Sowjet-Armenien, wie auch in LA, kann man den Gipfel wegen des Smogs nicht sehen


    In Sowjet-Armenien, wie auch in LA, kann man den Gipfel wegen des Smogs nicht sehen

    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-08-11-mn-2787-story.html

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    1. BzhizhkMard on

      >There would be a real protest if they tried to interfere with private motorists,” one driver said.

      >From a revolving bar atop the 17-story Palace of Youth, thick black smoke can be seen rising from Yerevan’s factories, adding to the layer of smog embracing the legendary mountain’s twin peaks.

      >Ararat, where Noah is said to have docked his ark, lies across the border in Turkey, but Armenians regard it as a symbol of a lost homeland from which they were driven or fled at the time of the Armenian massacres by the Turks in 1915.

      >Yerevan traces its history back 2,767 years, making it the oldest city in the Soviet Union. It has nearly 1.2 million people, a third of the population of Armenia, the smallest of the 15 republics that make up the Soviet Union.

      >The ambitious Armenians of Yerevan own more private cars per capita than the people of any other city in the Soviet Union, including Moscow. There are 60,000 private cars here, one for every 20 people, contrasted with a ratio of 1 to 47 for the Soviet Union as a whole. (The U.S. ratio is about 1 to 2).

      >Public transportation consists mainly of buses, though the city has a new, six-station subway system that may help to reduce the congestion.

      Such an interesting passage

    2. Brotendo88 on

      The issue with tackling private cars is the lack of an expansive public transit system which is

      A. on time

      B. comfortable

      C. reaches everywhere in the city easily

      the new fleet of buses will alleviate some of that but… we’ll see. i think more streets in kentron need to pedestrianize, or outright ban cars from parking there, and increase/create the fines (and actually have the police enforce them instead of drinking coffee and smoking cigs).

      you know many times a day i walk around yerevan and see cars just sitting idle on the street or in dalans just pumping out fumes lol, that should be a fineable offense, plus we need emissions testing, and halting further construction, idk.

    3. HighAxper on

      Honestly makes me kind of sad, 40 years is less than half of the average Armenian lifespan, and the environmental problem existed for probably longer than that and could possibly exist for as long.

      Some problems are just too big to solve in one lifetime, and this isn’t just about the environment. The most frustrating thing is that it’s just a matter of education, if at least 20% of the population was as educated and passionate about our nature and environment as the 1% of the population there would be too much pressure on the government to do something about it. But as long as the average Armenian is so stupid that he will sell his car’s catalytic converter for some cash, the government doesn’t have to do anything, and this applies to other problems as well.

      uneducated population=lazy government

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