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I'm not sure I buy this. Isn't most of the pollution generated by a small % of vehicles. e.g. diesel trucks and maga pickups tuned to burn oil. In short, all

I'm not sure I buy this. Isn't most of the pollution generated by a small % of vehicles. e.g. diesel trucks and maga pickups tuned to burn oil. In short, all the sedans on the road can be electric, but the pollution levels are largely unchnaged. asthma rates for residents of this building would not be affected until all trucks and buses went electric. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_Apartments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_Apartments

Symbiote 4y ago
Changing that requires political will. In inner London, driving a car from before roughly 2005 incurs a charge of £12.50 per day. Driving a heavy truck or large bus from before roughly 2014 anywhere in London incurs a charge of £100 per day, or £300/day if it's even older. Of the public buses, "There are 3,854 hybrid buses, 785 battery electric buses, and 22 hydrogen fuel cell buses operating in London, as of March 2022, out of a total bus fleet of 8,795 - this is around 53% of the bus fleet". New York seems to be aiming for something similar for buses (not trucks), but is about 5 years behind. ("The New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) operates the world's largest fleet of buses -- 4,373 public buses" -- well, maybe the largest in the world in America. I'll leave it to a New Yorker to find figures, I don't know enough about how NYC transport is structured.)