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40% reduction in air pollution

There's really no need to say any more....

Bunny Payne ● 2390d10 Comments

Worth adding, though, that the monthly average NO2 level in Putney High Street for April is now running at 38.1 micrograms/cubic metre, when the legal max is 40. And it gives the denite impression of heading further downwards.

Richard Carter ● 2390d

Good news on one front then 🙂

Michael Ixer ● 2390d

Yes but did you see that worrying Italian report about Covid 19 being carried on air pollution?

Philippa Bond ● 2390d

It's here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.11.20061713v1But it's a bit tentative as yet, and hasn't been peer reviewed, so caution is needed in considering the results.

Richard Carter ● 2390d

I would be very careful about reading things on the internet just now.But the good news is that it is now a PROVEN fact that pollution has dropped dramatically since the lockdown.  Nobody can deny that and it can be used in the future as proof when pollutions issues are discussed in parliament.

Bunny Payne ● 2389d

But I guess people arriving at Heathrow aren't being isolated for 14 days?  Ths virus won't go away unless the Government steps up instead of waffling.

Lucille Grant ● 2389d

I’ve just come back from a run around Richmond Park.  Without traffic, it was absolute glorious - so peaceful!  The deer clearly love it too, as they were lounging about all over the place.  We are so lucky to have the park on our doorstep.  Hopefully post lockdown, we’ll stop using it as a thoroughfare.

Craig Fordham ● 2389d

I never understood how or why a royal park of such magnificence was used as an extension of the south circular or indeed a race track for the cyclist

Imbuzi Yentaba ● 2389d

IY. Not sure, I doubt it was a specific decision to let traffic in probably there's never been one to keep it out. Don't forget the original owners  of cars were the wealthy and aristocracy who no doubt also made the rules, so they probably considered it a god given right to take tghgeir cars in?  Then it just got out of hand. There have been restrictions; for example, closing the Robin Hood gate thus stopping access to and from the A3. There has been talk (and I think consultations?) concerning further restrictions but not sure what's happened regarding those. 

Michael Ixer ● 2389d

This, from The Friends of Richmond Park covers some of the more recent history:-https://www.frp.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/6_Final_50th_anniversary_booklet_full_copy.pdfMind you, you probably don't need another 47 pages of anything.

David Ainsworth ● 2389d