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WHILE Glasgow's Hope Street and its air pollution problems are perhaps the most critical, by focusing on one single spot you allow too much blame to be pinned on buses and taxis (February 28). Neil Greig of the AA practically implies that a limit on cars is part of the problem. Sorry, but allowing unlimited use by cars on Hope Street isn't going to improve matters.
Perhaps planners should consider whether it is smart to have so many buses running on the same inner-city streets. But Hope Street is just the worst example of an overall problem that Glasgow has with particulates (PM10) - and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2), as well. Other areas cause concern - ie, along the M8 - and the PM10 and NO 2concentrations there are largely attributed to cars and lorries. A recent study in California linked motorwayborne pollution and respiratory problems in adjacent schools. Yet more motorway is proposed for Glasgow with the M74 Northern Extension. The top offender in your feature was Marylebone Road, London: just the type of urban dual-carriageway that Glasgow would like to construct in the East End, euphemistically titled East End Regeneration Route.See the full content of this document
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