According to the article, the city will open a Southwest Waste Treatment
Station shortly, causing the district to develop. Ivavnova maintains that
when the district develops because of the opening of the Treatment Station,
that "the metro will be essential" and that two new stations will need to
be opened "at the south-west of the city" (Titova 2004). The fact that the
opening of a waste treatment center will create the need for two new metro
stations showcases the importance of the metro on daily life and the
movement of people in the city. Anywhere in the city that people need to
go to, all developing and developed places of residence and economic growth
not only need a metro station, but further metro coverage as well. Without
a metro station and subsequent coverage by the metro, the part of town will
be unreachable to numerous city dwellers in St. Petersburg and would suffer
accordingly. Any important area of the city that needs to be reached by
residents needs to be accessible by a metro, as according to evidence
presented in the article by Titova, the metro in St. Petersburg is not only
the preferred and most efficient method of moving people within the city,
it is also the most necessary.
A review of Irina Titova's article, "City Subway Meets only Half
Demand," thus indicates not only the importance of the St. Petersburg
Metro, but also to the extent it is lacking, and in the dire situation the
city would be without the Metro. This therefore means that the city has to
have the metro in order to function properly. A vision of St. Petersburg
without the metro would mean for 58 stations of continuous foot traffic
throughout the day to be transferred to the streets. The already crowded
streets could not handle this excessive capacity which would surely be many
hundreds of times its current overload, and people could no longer travel
freely and quickly throughout...
The movement of people would be
severely hindered, perhaps even eliminated without the metro. Yet, despite
its current importance and use, it is only half of what is needed and "the
development of St. Petersburg metro is behind by about 20 years," according
to the metro operator via Titova's article. This means that development of
the metro will continue for years to come, and its usage will far surpass
what it is today as its development catches up to the level of necessity
and growth in the city.
Railways are still important methods of travel today, and 20th century
metropolitan high speed systems are necessary to the movement of people and
further growth within cities throughout the world. Nowhere is this more
evident than in St. Petersburg Russia, as demonstrated in a recent article
by Irina Titova. The St. Petersburg Metro is important as a primary means
of transportation and necessary for not only the current level of
transportation necessity within the city, but for future growth as well.
Not even a waste treatment plan can be opened without being connected to
the metro, as the metro is important to all areas that have any sort of
importance to be reached by city residents and visitors. Moving people in
the city without the metro would not only be a logistical nightmare, but
impossible as the metro is not only a preferable method of transportation,
it is the only one that is a viable option for metropolitan areas.
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