CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 16years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
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"Glasgow has been named among 11 urban areas in the UK and Ireland which have breached air pollution safety levels. The city was the only Scottish location to feature in the data published by the World Health Organisation (WHO)."
Either Edinburgh is not as bad, or it wasn't included in the survey?
Prestonpans in there too.
"Prestonpans"!
Pollution from Cockenzie?
(No More)
Oh dear. I spent the first 25 years of my life living in two of the other places on that list.
Any CCEers in the photo??
Glasgow used to have the worst polluted streets in Scotland - west Nile street, renfield street etc, all big canyons with lots of traffic and no breeze. Right up there with St. John's road in corstorphine. But then it just stopped reporting its data. So it is good to see it back where it belongs.
"But then it just stopped reporting its data. "
That's one way of saving face I suppose!
glasgow's vulnerable diseased lung
free or a desert ?
if it was a plant it wouldn't need watering
on yersel
Also big focus on nurture approach in schools with similar move away from attainment data.
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The WHO director for public health, environmental and social determinants of health Maria Neria said: “Urban air pollution continues to rise at an alarming rate, wreaking havoc on human health. At the same time, awareness is rising and more cities are monitoring their air quality. When air quality improves, global respiratory and cardiovascular-related illnesses decrease.”
Pollution was also registered on traffic hotspot Hardwick Hill in Chepstow – but a bypass, a popular remedy with some residents, is unlikely to get the go ahead by the Welsh Government because of cost.
From October 2013 until January 2014 the Welsh Government paid for a consultant to run five local newspaper adverts to measure what people felt could be done over congestion and air quality in Chepstow, to the tune of £19,000. It received only 30 responses.
Remedies to further traffic problems are being sought by developers who want permission to build up to 600 houses on the National Shipyard No 1 along the River Wye, as the Argus reported earlier this week.
Another 110-home estate already has the go ahead over the river in Sedbury.
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