I've honestly found lots of Europe can be worse tbh, even in the smaller or less car centric cities, presumably because of how widespread diesel is. Still more liveable cities in general, but air pollution can get pretty bad all over the place.
Oh yeah, absolutely. Like despite having very decent public transport, we still have worse air quality than even more car centric cities (I'd argue less smelly still, but :shrug-outta-hecks: ), because the city I'm in geographically just "traps" all the particulates in the city area.
Sadly, Barcelona is the most polluted city I’ve ever been to for specifically automobile (and motorcycle) exhaust. Terrible diesel fumes. La Barceloneta area was the only part I could tolerate. (It’s mostly closed to cars.)
Christ, would they even bother doing that in the modern era? Or would you just have some influencers getting paid to do the "Tail Pipe Suck Challenge" sponsored by Standard Oil?
Seriously though the exhaust of old cars smells so bad. It notice it when the odd 70s Mustang passes by me. Cities must've smelt disgusting
Car centric cities like in the US still do tbh.
I noticed that coming from a smaller city with decent public transport to ones without it in my country.
I've honestly found lots of Europe can be worse tbh, even in the smaller or less car centric cities, presumably because of how widespread diesel is. Still more liveable cities in general, but air pollution can get pretty bad all over the place.
Oh yeah, absolutely. Like despite having very decent public transport, we still have worse air quality than even more car centric cities (I'd argue less smelly still, but :shrug-outta-hecks: ), because the city I'm in geographically just "traps" all the particulates in the city area.
Sadly, Barcelona is the most polluted city I’ve ever been to for specifically automobile (and motorcycle) exhaust. Terrible diesel fumes. La Barceloneta area was the only part I could tolerate. (It’s mostly closed to cars.)
they did
Even in the 90s LA still had "smog days" where the pollution was so bad they'd close schools and tell people not to go outside if they could help it
Christ, would they even bother doing that in the modern era? Or would you just have some influencers getting paid to do the "Tail Pipe Suck Challenge" sponsored by Standard Oil?