Cleaner buses improving air quality but pollutants still above EU limits

Harmful traffic pollution levels on Putney High Street has already breached annual limits nine days into January. Last year it took ten days!

Concentrations of nitrogen dioxide - a gas linked to asthma and other serious respiratory problems - are not supposed to go above 200 ug/m3 on more than 18 occasions a year under Government clean air targets.

Buses shown to be major cause of pollution

Murad Qureshi, Labour’s environment spokesman on the London Assembly, said:
“It is appalling that just five days into the New Year the hourly legal limit for nitrogen dioxide on one of our busiest roads has already been exceeded. Air pollution is a known killer causing over 4,000 premature deaths every year."



January 10, 2014