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Lockdown was bliss for pollution here in London. Air smelled totally different. We don’t want more lockdowns but we need to fix society so we don’t have to tra
by hughrr 5y ago
Lockdown was bliss for pollution here in London. Air smelled totally different.
We don’t want more lockdowns but we need to fix society so we don’t have to travel so much on a daily basis.
- go_elmo 5y agoAs a foreign tourist in london, london needs to fix its infrastructure. The amount of fine dust in the tubes is criminal.
- hughrr 5y agoYeah tube dust is nasty. I’ll give you that. I barely ever use the tube now preferring to use overground trains and walk if possible. A lot of people don’t seem to know that a lot of tube journeys can be done in a few minutes on foot.
- napier 5y agoPandemic or no pandemic, wearing a high filtration respirator (N95/FFP2 mask at a minimum) on the tube, where air pollution levels regularly exceed Beijing and Delhi, is advisable. Also sensible on inexplicably still diesel choked busy London streets above ground.
- hughrr 5y agoStreets are getting considerably better thanks to ULEZ and all the horrible busses and taxis being replaced.
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- tim333 5y agoWhile I'm skeptical of the UK govts 2030 ban on selling combustion engine vehicles, I think going electric may the answer to London air quality.
- hughrr 5y agoCorrect but only because people won’t be able to afford to replace their old cars with electric ones.
- ben_w 5y agoI can well believe it. While I spent the pandemic in Berlin and didn’t notice much change here, 20 years ago I was in the UK and the daily walk past the A27 was radically improved by the truckers blockading the entire UK petrol supply in protest against fuel taxes.