Environmental Issues Associated With Vehicle Use

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air pollution is thought to cause up to several thousand deaths and up to 20,000 hospital admissions every year.
Acid rain is another serious problem, helped along with the increased usage of motor cars. The increased acidity of the precipitation is down to contamination by carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, all of which the car is largely responsible for. During driving, a large percentage of lead is emitted into the atmosphere and although most of it is ultimately deposited on the ground, appreciable concentrations can enter the air and be transported considerable distances. Young children are permanently affected by lead and can suffer mental retardation and semi-permanent brain damage.
Increased traffic has made travelling a lot more hazardous, especially for children and animals, such as hedgehogs and deer. Animals’ habitats are also affected if not totally destructed because of the continuous road and motorway developments that cater for the increased ...

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approximately 297,000 km of road to over 360,000 km. This has been combined with a more than doubling of car ownership to 23 million motor vehicles, an average of 32.5 cars for every 100 people.
There are many disadvantages concerning the continuing programme of building new roads and improving existing ones. Wider straighter roads with more direct routes make private car travel easier and cheaper, which increases traffic. People begin to live further away from their place of work and regularly use the motorway network to travel to work, which leads to the whole reorganisation of settlements. Roads are usually built across countryside because open land is cheaper to buy and ...

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