Earth intended for commercial institutions is particularly rapidly growing. In all areas of the city and on its outskirts, speculation of land plots is highly developed.
In 1952. Tokyo adopted a five -year plan for the reconstruction of the city, but it was fulfilled by only 28%. One of the reasons for this is the spontaneous growth of the city. The situation is especially bad with the organization of urban movement. Passenger transport works with a load three times higher. It is expected that if Tokyo’s streets remain in its current state, then in 1965. urban, the movement will be completely paralyzed. Therefore, in 1960. In Tokyo, the construction of high -speed roads has begun, in the form of seven radial highways going to the center, and two loops around the central district.
The total length of the designed roads is 71 km. They are built on the pillars, or are laid below the ground level directly through residential areas or along the rivers in Tokyo. metro lines, but their length for the city of 10 million. Residents are very small. The first line is 14.3 km long built in 1927., The second is 16.6 km in 1957. Three more lines are designed now. After laying them, the total length of the metro lines should reach 109 km. The construction of a monorail road is also planned; Two small experimental sites have already been built.
Tokyo agglomeration consists of 40 actually fused populated places. For intracity ties, an electric railway with high speeds of movement is widely used, and the intervals between trains are extremely reduced. For the connection of Tokyo with other large cities, super -speed roads are built. So, for example, recently between Tokyo and Osaka began to run express at a speed of 200 km/h, which is achieved after 8-10 minutes. after the start of the train.
One of the serious problems of Tokyo is the gradual lowering of the soil. In some areas, the soil over the past 35-40 years has dropped by 2.8-3 m.