Pollution in London

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Is it that bad?

www.standard.co.uk/news/london/diesel-drivers-to-be-hit-with-charge-to-park-in-central-london-a3451276.html
This is a very small step...

How far from London to live to avoid the smog?

Sweden is too far!!

It is in some other big cities at the moment. The foggy weather is terrible for pollution.

Paris does alternate circulation days when there is too much pollution, so only cars with even/uneven plate numbers are allowed on a set day (except for emergency vehicles, blue badge etc).

I doubt this would ever happen in London though, one thing that struck us when we moved here was that everything seem to be made for cars and not pedestrians. Even though it means we breath toxic air.

I'm a born and bred Londoner. I had asthma as a child which more or less disappeared by time I was a young adult. When I moved to a flat on a busy road area of London, it came back and I'm on steroids long term now.

AntiHop could you not move to another place? Or you can only work in London?
SomethingBorrowed Paris doesn't have any breathable corner.

I know almond it is worse than London over there.
But they are trying to make something about it - they recently closed a central busy road which is now only accessible to pedestrians/bikes. Too little too late some might say. But still.

I run and cycle regularly here - no real issues. I used to have hayfever when I lived in Dublin but it hasn't been an issue since I moved to London, oddly enough.

This bad patch will pass - it's just a quirk of the weather that just has it all sitting rather than being moved off.

SomethingBorrowed oh sure, that's an effort from Paris mayor. It's unbelievable that things don't move quicker than that.

TriJo - I think it depends on the person. Some people clearly have issues all the time in London

Is hay fever caused by air pollution? I think it's to do with the plant and tree species grown?

large cities are often built in valleys surrounded by higher ground.

When you get a weather inversion, the polluted air sits in the valley and doesn't rise up or blow away.

We had a few days of very still air (I noticed because I was looking at the estimates for electricity generated by windpower) but today it is blowing weakly (mostly between 5 and 10 mph), so if the wind strengthens, I suppose pollution will improve. It has also been quite cold, so people and power stations will have been burning more fuel than usual. This is not such a problem as when we burned a lot of coal.

p.s.

which is lucky, really, because without this bit of windpower, the coal, nuclear, combined gas and biomass stations were all running pretty well flat out and approaching overload. It was cloudy so no significant solar generation. The Dutch supply is running at max, we seem not to be getting anything from France, I believe they have some stations in unscheduled maintenance.

We have some inefficient small gas stations on standby. Successive UK governments have spent more than 20 years without a coherent energy policy, and now we are in a hole.

You can have a look, realtime.
www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

sorry, off-topic

Hay fever and pollen induced asthma can be made worse by pollution. Ozone in particular I think.

I don't think I'd have asthma if I didn't live in London. Well it's a suburb but it's pretty polluted too and the walk from the central London tube station to the office is choking.

I moved further into London a month ago and every morning I've been coughing and sneezing up bloody phlegm. I'm sure it has to do with pollution and allergies. I never had allergies before I moved to London.

All the pollution-and-diesel discussion has me researching trade-in opportunities for our diesel car! Even DH is coming round now. Not sure how much trade-in value our car will actually have, mind...

thenotsoquiet How far out of London did you use to live?

Ah, I see. Flogging this logical disaster.

Reported.

Its nothing compared to hcm city, beijing or Singapore during 300 haze.