The Reconstruction of Moscow

greater. The oonsnmption of water per capita has in- creased from 60 litres to 160 litres, that is, by more than" two and a half times. Sewer mains have increasect one and a half times. The street-car lin^s have more than: doubled. The number of street-cars has increased from 800 to 2,1500, i.e., more than tripled, and in addition Moscow has 450 rnqtorbuses and 60 trolley-buses, which were non-existent before the Revolution. Before the Revolution only 2 per cent of all the road- ways were covered with asphalt, macadam or setts; now 30 per cent of the total street area is surfaced with these materials. The per capita consumption of gas has increased from 8 cubic metres to 21 cubic metres. The/^umber of telephones has increased from 25,000 to 110,000. The number of electric street lamps has in- creased from 5,000 to 37,000, and kerosene and gas street lamps have been completely eliminated. But Moscpw cannot well be satisfied with these achieve- ments. Even though 160 litres of water daily per capita is two and a half times greater than the volume per capita in pre-revolutionary days, and considerably higher than the Berlin average, it is not sufficient in view of the increased requirements of the Moscow population. It is not sufficient that the sewerage system has been extended one and a half times when Moscow .still has areas of old one-storey houses, where the sewerage system has yet to be introduced. Nor is the great increase in trans- portation facilities sufficient, since ■ the requirements of the population in this respect have exceeded this increase. Before the Revolution a Moscow inhabitant made an average of 156 journeys per year, now he. makes 500 journeys per year. With the rise in the cultural level of

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