【全非资讯·加纳】 加纳：污染严重的通勤之路——加纳的现状

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加纳各大城市每周工作日的清晨都会上演同样的场景：太阳甚至还没升起，高速公路的一侧就已经挤满了通勤者。他们大多住在城市边缘，挤进一辆辆缓慢向城市中心的部委、医院、大学、法院和商业中心驶去的车辆中。\n\n到了上午，数千台发动机在绵延数公里的车队中怠速运转。乘客们坐在闷热的trotro公交车里，路边的小贩呼吸着薄雾般的尾气。到了傍晚，随着通勤者回家，交通流向逆转。\n\n大多数加纳人都认为这种煎熬只是必须忍受的交通拥堵。但城市规划者和公共卫生专家表示，这种日常的交通瘫痪是一个严重的设计失误，它正在夺走加纳人的生命，让人类健康受损。\n\n据估计，空气污染每年导致加纳约35,000人过早死亡。虽然公众的注意力往往集中在老旧车辆、工业排放和露天焚烧上，但专家表示，另一个污染的主要推手正隐藏在眼皮底下：加纳城市的规划方式。\n\n通过WhatsApp和LinkedIn了解最新头条新闻\n\n阿克拉大都会区规划局城市规划师Alex Johnson先生表示：如果你把所有核心服务都集中在一个地方，你就会造成最严重的污染。交通不能被视为一件独立的事情。它是所有事情的核心。\n\n几十年来，工作岗位、医疗、教育、商业和政府服务一直集中在少数几个城市中心，而人们则越住越远，直到城市的边缘外环。其结果是数百万人每天都在同一条走廊上同时出行。如今，曾经被视为不便的问题正在演变成一场公共卫生危机。\n\n专家表示，问题的根源在于几十年来糟糕的城市规划。这种规划将机会集中在少数几个地点，而人口增长、房价上涨和城市化意味着居住区距离经济中心越来越远。政府办公机构、大型医院、大学、法院和商业枢纽依然聚集在有限的区域内，迫使数百万居民每天长途通勤。

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Every weekday morning in Ghana's largest cities, the same ritual unfolds: even before the sun has risen, one side of the motorway fills as commuters, who live mostly on the outskirts of the cities, pile into vehicles that crawl toward ministries, hospitals, universities, courts and commercial centres clustered in the city's core.

By mid-morning, thousands of engines idle in queues stretching for kilometres. Passengers sit in overheated trotros. Roadside traders breathe in a haze of exhaust fumes. By evening, the traffic reverses as commuters go home.

Most Ghanaians think of this ordeal as simply "congestion" that they must endure. But urban planners and public-health experts say the daily gridlock is a serious design error -- and one that is killing and sickening Ghanaians.

Air pollution is estimated to contribute to 35,000 premature deaths in Ghana every year. While public attention often focuses on ageing vehicles, industrial emissions and open burning, experts say another major driver of pollution is hiding in plain sight: The way Ghana's cities are designed.

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"If you have all your essential services in one location, you are causing the worst kind of pollution," said Mr Alex Johnson, an urban planner with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly. "Transport cannot be thought of as a separate thing. It is central to everything."

For decades, jobs, healthcare, education, commerce and government services have been concentrated within a handful of urban centres while the people lived further and further on the outer rings of the city. The result is a daily migration of millions of people travelling along the same corridors at the same time. Now what was once seen as an inconvenience is emerging as a public health crisis.

Experts say the roots of the problem lie in decades, of poor urban planning which has concentrated opportunity in a few locations while growing populations, rising home prices and urbanisation mean residential communities have expanded farther from economic centres. Government offices, major hospitals, universities, courts and commercial hubs remain clustered within limited areas, forcing millions of residents to commute long distances every day.

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