فارس من | 34% wear of Tehran’s cars and motorcycles / How much money does it need to deal with air pollution?

Seyed Manaf Hashemi, Advisor to the Mayor of Tehran, on improving the quality of environmental indicators and achieving clean airوگو With Fars News Agency urban reporter, referring To “This day is an opportunity to raise more issues related to air pollution and the issue of clean air,” said National Clean Air Day.

He added: “Air pollution in metropolises is one of the destructive consequences of industrialization of cities and the issue of motor transportation has created problems and negative consequences in metropolises, and air pollution is one of these issues.”

The advisor to the mayor of Tehran continued: in the year 74 Authorities In order to pay more attention to the issue of clean air and air pollution, the country’s executive named January 19 as Clean Air Day, which this year’s slogan is “public rights and national action to achieve clean air.”

Hashemi pointed out that the people, the government and the city administration should work together to create clean air and reduce air pollution as much as possible: “This issue should be seen in the government and the country’s budget.” Programs like the Seventh Development Plan can bring clean air.

He pointed out that the budget of 1401 did not pay serious attention to the issue of clean air in the country, in other words, metropolises, and said: And the issue of non-fulfillment of financing credits for contracts such as 630 wagons is one of the issues that show that the issue of air pollution has not been addressed as it should be.

Tehran’s advisor to the mayor said: “Over the past 9 years, governments have not given good credit to municipalities, while air pollution is a very important issue and is associated with heart disease, lung disease and cancer, as well as chronic respiratory diseases and premature death.”

Hashemi said: “Some doctors believe that according to research, air pollution causes 5 to 10 percent of premature deaths, and we hope that the attention to the issue of eliminating air pollution will be given more attention by governments.”

Regarding the budget of Tehran Municipality in the field of public transportation and air pollution, he said: For 1401, about 33% of the budget is related to public transportation, although this amount is not small, but much more than this for public transportation. We need a budget When I was in the deputy of transportation, I announced that 20 to 30 thousand billion tomans of credit should be considered annually in the budget of the government and municipalities for the issue of public transportation and combating air pollution, while now the figure is about 2 Up to 3 thousand billion tomans per year.

Noting that the weather in Tehran was acceptable for only 200 days this year, he said: “Other days have been unhealthy for all people or for sensitive groups. We have tried in consultation with the parliament to increase the public transport budget of cities to improve the weather.” However, there are obstacles to sanctions, liquidity problems of municipalities and the government, which can be done with 5 to 10 years of planning to solve these problems.

Hashemi stated: On the other hand, Tehran has about 7 million cars and motorcycles, 34% of which are worn out And annually The government should provide incentives Direction Remove used cars and Replacement They do better with cars like electric cars.

He also stressed that private sector investment in public transport from Sentence Problems The mayor of Tehran has noticed that although he has his own difficulties, but it is possible to take steps in this direction by planning and with the support of the people, the government and the municipality to have a basic idea to deal with air pollution.

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