One Vehicle: Infinite Damage

We all have to travel, some travel for work, some for school/college and some for fun.

Travel is beautiful and fun unless you have to use precautions before going out of home.

It is exhausting to wear masks everytime.

But it gets worse when even mask can't protect you.

I have to go to college everyday, traveling around 12KM each day.

It was fun, unless the expansion of Butwal-Garusinghe Road begun.

Multiple diversion, dusty roads and more pollution than ever.

Nowadays we started to use alternative route to go to college. Alternative Routes are shorter, peaceful and less pollutant.

However nowadays everyone wants shortcuts, even the big vehicles like, Truck, Tipper.

The alternative routes are not much safe like it used to be.

Heavy vehicles running into the unpitched roads is more chaotic than I have imagined.

The picture clearly demonstrate the destruction caused by a single vehicle in an unpitched road beyond the main road.

The tipper in the picture is breathing dust behind it.

It is carrying a thin layer of dust all the way 15-20 misters behind it.

This dust layer forced get aside and wait for 30-40 seconds for the dust to came down.

The tipper, is not only giant by size but also by the damages it cause.

The tipper usually exhausts harmful gases from its engine, like Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Carbon Monoxide (CO) and other harmful gases.

Alongside it the dust erupted behind it in the image is also a pivotal cause of air pollution.

A report published in Science Direct, reports that a heavy-duty diesel tipper produces between 0.2 grams to 1.76 grams of PM2.5 per kilometer.

According to WHO, the upper limit of PM2.5 safe is average 15 µg/m3 per 24 hours.

A single tipper emits more harmful gases (especially PM2.5) than safe upper limit.

During the construction of Butwal-Garusinghe Road, heavy vehicles like, tippers and trucks are running frequently, some through main road, some through alternative route, damaging both roads and air.