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"Free Paris public transport amid high air pollution"
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Posted 11 years ago #
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The article failed to mention that as of tomorrow "circulation alternée" is being re-introduced for the first time in 17 years. This means only vehicles with odd numbers on their registration plate are allowed in the city on dates that are an odd number and vice-versa for even numbers. Effectively halving traffic at a stroke but I think some motorists would go apoplectic if they tried that in the UK.
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"Effectively halving traffic at a stroke"
Apart from those who have 2 cars (or 'spare' number plates...)
Posted 11 years ago # -
Apart from those who have 2 cars (or 'spare' number plates...)
Or those who simply break the law. (Not sure how they're going to police this. Will there be barriers on the Périphérique?)
Posted 11 years ago # -
Meanwhile, en Ecosse..."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-26592822
I suppose that's one benefit of the perma-gale that seems to howl across Edinburgh for half of each year. Clean, fresh Atlantic air shipped in at no cost.
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...and featuring PY.
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Linked:
"Should you be worried about air pollution?"
Note it's a poor journalist who asks if cyclists should wear masks when motorists have a similar exposure.
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"I suppose that's one benefit of the perma-gale that seems to howl across Edinburgh for half of each year."
Apart from recent years where there seems to have some 'extra' (strong) winds, my impression is that less of a 'prevailing' wind. No doubt this is in same box as 'childhood summers were always sunny'.
"Clean, fresh Atlantic air shipped in at no cost."
Certainly it helps that most of the surrounding area is 'rural' (or at least with not much industry).
Being on hills that slope towards the sea means that the air is not often stagnant/trapped.
Centre of town would be a lot worse if there were shops on both sides of Princes Street!
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Princes St would be a serious wind tunnel with shops on both sides, Gorgie is bad enough.
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'childhood summers were always sunny'
Well I can tell you didn't grow up in the Silver City. I had my first childhood summer at the age of eight. Only my two anoraks and woollen balaclava saved me from serious sunburn - I remember the delicious rush of vitamin D to this day.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Clean, fresh Atlantic air shipped in at no cost.
"Clean" air? Weegie air, more like...
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More like Dumfries, Galloway and Borders air, given the prevailing sou'westerly winds.
Weegie air ends up mostly north east of Glasgow, ie. Stirling, Falkirk, Alloa, etc.
In either case I'd imagine the heavier particles and volatile gases would have settled on the ground or reacted with oxygen/nitogen to form less harmful substances by the time they get further than a few miles.
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"or reacted with oxygen/nitrogen"
The dominant mechanism for removal of hydrocarbon pollutants in the troposhere is through reaction with hydroxyl radicals. To which the only possible response is "•OH, is it?"
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To anyone else thinking of making a chemistry joke, you should know I've got my ion you.
Posted 11 years ago # -
cue long-chain jokes
Posted 11 years ago # -
"
Your plan of attack for the next 12 months?
I’m going to be working very closely with my coalition colleagues to deliver our agreed pledges and try and resolve some long running big issues too like the air quality around the city’s vital access roads."
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"In the first study of its kind, it has emerged the Capital ranks second only to Glasgow in an air pollution fatality ranking which suggests the national death toll peaks at 2100 cases a year."
Did I miss something or are we meant to be surprised that Scotland's second largest urban area has Scotland's second largest air pollution problem.
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