lucknow along with bringing speed and technology to the city lucknow metro will also help in reducing pollution and make roads safer in the long runas more people will use the metro after its full commercial run on the 23km northsouth corridor march 8 onwards the impact on the environment will be positive in several wayswhile fuel consumption is expected to come down by 42 carbon dioxide emission will see a fall of 049 by the end of next yearthe assessment has been made after a 10month study commissioned by lucknow metro rail corporation lmrc was completed by future infra last year the firm had conducted a similar study for hyderabad metrosubsequently the number of road accidents is also expected to declinepresuming that around 1 lakh people will use the metro for daily commuting by 2020 the report claims that nearly 79000 vehicles out of the total 22 lakh plying daily in the city will be off roads in one year this means 35 fewer vehicles on the roads as a result this will save around 34 crore litres of fuel annually which is 42 of the total 8 crore litres consumed every year by vehiclestotal carbon emission by vehicles at present is 92 lakh metric tonne which is expected to reduce by 45000 metric tonneit will take some time but we are confident that more and more people will gradually adopt metro for commuting thereby reducing traffic congestion on roads and helping in conserving the environment said lmrc managing director kumar keshavenvironmentalist prof venkatesh dutta said that reduction of 45000 metric tonne carbon dioxide emission was equivalent to closure of two brick kilnsthe major contributors to air pollutionthe dependence on metro is also expected to reduce the number of accidents the survey found that in 2018 500 accidents took place on roads covered by the northsouth corridor from the airport to munshipulia of these 121were fatalthe report calculates that if the metro is in operation with 1lakh riders the number of accidents would decline by 42 this means 213 fewer accidents the number of fatal accidents would have declined by 23 or 19we believe that accidents will decline with the increase in preference for metro and proportionate decline in density of vehicles on roads said a senior officer