Zmiany w infrastrukturze technicznej Podhala po II wojnie światowej

Abstract

In this work the author showed the transformations of the technical infrastructure in domain of its basic elements. Some of these elements were shown in a static formulation (e.g. energetics, waterworks) and they had appeared in the region of Podhale only after the Second World War. The author assumed that for the main tourist function of the region the transport was the most important element of infrastucture. So most of the attention was paid to the changes of the transport. About the greatness and dynamics of the changes in this domain attests the fact that in 1960 the total length of the hard surface ways in the region of Podhale was 130 km and 20 years later (1980) it increased to almost 650 km. It caused the increase of the spatial density coefficient of the transport system from 29 km/100 km2 (before World War II, to 30 km/100 km2 (nowadays). Together with the road system the public communication (esp. bus communication) connections were developing. The changes in this domain were really great. In 1946 in the region of Podhale there were only 3 bus connections of entire intensity 4 pairs of courses a day. And in 1973/74 there were 27 external bus connections and 57 local ones with the entire intensity 500 pairs of courses a day. The part of the railway transport (both passenger and goods) is not of such importance as it was before the war. In the author's estimate the transformations in technical infrastructure in the region of Podhale after the Second World War were very important. Except of modernization and extensions of some old elements appeared some quite new (i.e. energetics, waterworks) and also that were credited only with cities i.e. sewage systems, sewage- -treatment plants, dumping grounds. Those latter are still in embryos but their fast development and dissemination according to ecological requirements are simply necessary.