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It's also possible that air quality on the London Tube is much worse than the bus, at least for particulate matter: "Researchers found that a person travelling
by Litost 4y ago
It's also possible that air quality on the London Tube is much worse than the bus, at least for particulate matter:
"Researchers found that a person travelling on a bus for two and a half hours was exposed to a third of what they would be travelling on the Tube for just an hour."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/air-pollution-london-underground-tube-worse-than-above-ground-a8721586.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/air-pollutio...
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Regarding CO2 levels, there's a 2018 FOI request which seems to imply it wasn't monitored back then, but was within regulatory limits though I'm not sure I'd want to travel on the tube more often than necessary?
"The regulatory limits for CO2 are 5000 parts per million (ppm) for 8 hours time weighted equivalent or a short term exposure limit (15 minutes) of 15000ppm."
https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-information/foi-request-detail?referenceId=FOI-0540-1819 https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-informa...
- Reason077 4y agoI’ve lived in London long enough to remember the “black snot” you’d get after riding on the Tube (especially the Northern Line!) back in the early 2000s. They’ve done a lot to improve ventilation, and reduce dust from train brakes, in recent years. The air certainly smells and feels a lot fresher and healthier on the extensively-ventilated Tube compared to on crowded buses with little or no ventilation at all.