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.)
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.)