The Reconstruction of Moscow

NUMBER OF JOUBNEYS PER INHABITANT PER YEAR In percentages In percentages Years Journeys of 1913 of the preceding year 1913 148 100 1929 328 229 106.0 1930 382 258 116.5 1931 502 339 132.0 1932 552 373 110.0 1933 555 375 100.5 1934 564 381 102.0 According to the reconstruction plan Moscow is being built for a population of 5,000,000 instead of the present 3,600,000. At the same time, the working day will be further reduced and the transportation facilities will be improved continually. The number of journeys per year will therefore neces- sarily continue to rise from year to year, and it is safe to estimate that it will increase to at least twice the present number, i.e., to about 4,000,000,000 journeys per year. It is interesting to compare the figures of transporta- tion in Moscow with those of some of the capitalist cities. In Berlin in 1932 the number of passengers conveyed was 1,221,000, which represented 68 per cent as compared with the preceding year, and in 1933, 1,161,000 passen- gers were carried, or 95 per cent of the figure for the pre- ceding year. In respect of the number of journeys per inhabitant, Berlin is nearly 50 per cent behind Moscow. Thus, each Berlin resident made an average of 287 jour- neys per year in 1932 and 273 journeys in 1933, nearly one-half of the Moscow figure. In Pan's the average is higher— 420 journeys per res- ident in 1932—-but it is also considerably behind Moscow,

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