Bristol Clean Air Zone

Have a look here to see if your area is affected. British Lung Foundation LINK.

Particulates come from a variety of sources.

Not only are air monitoring systems around for what we take as pollution, do you also know that some are also measuring radiation levels since the nuclear reactor accidents

The press is reporting a story that Bristol City is proposing to ban all diesels. Ah but, all sorts of vehicles will be permitted to carry on choking the kids to death providing they pay the council a wad of money. When will councils admit that they know the real problem, that cities have become too large and too dense. This population compacting and enlarging is all driven by the very same money grabbing council policies. if you pack 3/4 of a million people into a small place with no decent transport  infrastructure, what sort of air do you expect?

Deliveries to be made by barrow in future then? That'll save on white van man's gym membership.

Are they going to stop Airlines flying over the zone also, no point stopping diesel, when the biggest polluters are still above us.

- And it is tonnes of fossil fuel for even short hall flights per plane

We are where we are and that often means the options are limited. I would have thought that even taking a proportion of vehicles out of the area will have a positive impact even if it leaves more to do. I just wonder what people would suggest as an alternative which would produce the same result? If you think back to the old Clean Air Act that made a massive difference. 

David

Was that the 1956 Act or the 1968 Act or the 1993 Act Amendments? 

The genie is out of the bottle, and I doubt that most will want to try and stuff it back in. It would take population reduction, a move to go back to decent, cheap, reliable local transport, people working closer to where they live, children going to local schools, shops stocking food with longer sell by dates, a limit on overseas flying etc...... Take away cars and the tourist industry (hotels, cottages, campsites, NT, EH, etc....) would either collapse overnight, or go back to being only for the select few rich enough to buy carbon offsets.

agree with TTDA, just about all our issues derive (directly or indirectly) from the fact that there are far too many of us fighting over ever dwindling resources.

no matter how hard the manufacturers work to reduce 'pollution' by x %, if the amount of 'users' is increasing by several x in the same period they're on a loser...

oh well, we've had a good (but comparatively short) run