London pollution & ULEZ

Zefan · 5 Jul 2023 at 11:13

VincentHanna said:
Why isn't Sadiq Khan out there with a pressure washer, RIGHT NOW?!

Just "part and parcel of living in a big city", right?

d_brennen said:
Really? I've lived in London most of my life and don't get "black dust" in my nose or anywhere else. I do recall in the 80s that the net curtains and window sills we stained within a week of cleaning, something which doesn't really happen now

Nah not really, I am making it up for funsies ofc

Mrwong · 5 Jul 2023 at 11:14

VincentHanna said:
Why isn't Sadiq Khan out there with a pressure washer, RIGHT NOW?!

London can't afford to hire roadsweepers any more.

jonneymendoza · 5 Jul 2023 at 11:14

Zefan said:
No amount of videos is going to convince me I don't have black dust lining the inside of my nose when I've visited London over the years, something that doesn't happen elsewhere.

Talking nonsense here.

Yes if you use underground you do get that and the video does state how filthy the underground is but out and about in the streets of London? You talking nonsense

Zefan · 5 Jul 2023 at 11:15

jonneymendoza said:
Talking nonsense here.

Yes if you use underground you do get that and the video does state how filthy the underground is but out and about in the streets of London? You talking nonsense

Why would I lie :confused:

And of course I'm using the underground in London, it's one of the main transport methods isn't it? I didn't realise using the tube relegated me talking about my experience to "nonsense" tier.

VincentHanna · 5 Jul 2023 at 11:16

Zefan said:
Why would I lie

I said this in another thread, and apparently it is the underground that does it.

Zefan · 5 Jul 2023 at 11:18

VincentHanna said:
I said this in another thread, and apparently it is the underground that does it.

I get that there's a discrimination here perhaps, but wouldn't this be like saying "yeah living the country is bad for hay-fever but it's the fields around that do it"?

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 5 Jul 2023 at 11:22

Zefan said:
No amount of videos is going to convince me I don't have black dust lining the inside of my nose when I've visited London over the years, something that doesn't happen elsewhere.

Exactly what i was going to say.

Everytime you come back and the next day its clear.

Its deffo not as bad as it was. But an English country village it is not!

Efour · 5 Jul 2023 at 11:28

Yeah lived in London 30 years not a black booger in site. Maybe stop sucking diesel pipes or living on the kerb at a very busy roundabout.

imtoooldforthis · 5 Jul 2023 at 11:53

Lived here forever and never even heard someone talk about having black lines or dirt and dust in their nose. I’m on the undergeound regularly every week as well.

jpaul · 5 Jul 2023 at 11:55

depends where you live - as they said on the ulez discussion the people who pollute the most live in the less dense areas, and, driving HEPA equipped vehicles,
and sit in traffic jams along the streets where the prols live close by

plasmahal · 5 Jul 2023 at 11:56

CapitalOne said:
Problems with the countryside number 1: for at least a month of the year liquid excrement is sprayed everywhere and then it dries and still stinks

Not my fault i had a dodgy prawn out here in the sticks.....

Jokester · 5 Jul 2023 at 12:35

The air quality in London is better now than it has been since pretty much the start of the Industrial Revolution. Places like Delhi and Beijing though, yikes!

diamount · 5 Jul 2023 at 12:40

Zefan said:
I get that there's a discrimination here perhaps, but wouldn't this be like saying "yeah living the country is bad for hay-fever but it's the fields around that do it"?

Are you sure you ddin't visit Bejing?

Hotwired · 5 Jul 2023 at 12:41

VincentHanna said:
Air pollution: Coroner calls for law change after Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's death

Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's mother calls on the government to "reduce air pollution immediately".

www.bbc.co.uk

Ella was the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as the cause of death on their death certificate

Either that's total ******** or they called dying of flithy smog something different in the past where we knew full well where the deaths were coming from and had laws passed to improve the air.

BUDFORCE · 5 Jul 2023 at 12:52

d_brennen said:
Really? I've lived in London most of my life and don't get "black dust" in my nose or anywhere else. I do recall in the 80s that the net curtains and window sills we stained within a week of cleaning, something which doesn't really happen now

I did a motorcycle courier job (for one day) in London and when I came home my face was black, and that was through a motorcycle helmet.

That was, hmmmmmm, 20 years ago though.

I grew up in London but moved out around 2008 and I live in the middle of nowhere no, cannot say I really notice any difference other than being on the tube trains, you can actually see the **** in the air down there.

200sols · 5 Jul 2023 at 13:09

jonneymendoza said:
No honesty there has been factual data that proves you are incorrect though and even the video above shows actual reading of London air quality.

A single reading means nothing, look at annualised figures. London is pretty bad, as are other big UK cities.

You can view all sorts of pollutants here.

UK Emissions Interactive Map

naei.beis.gov.uk

GlitterBalls · 5 Jul 2023 at 13:13

And they want to expand ULEZ!!

Rroff · 5 Jul 2023 at 13:14

BUDFORCE said:
I did a motorcycle courier job (for one day) in London and when I came home my face was black, and that was through a motorcycle helmet.

That was, hmmmmmm, 20 years ago though.

I grew up in London but moved out around 2008 and I live in the middle of nowhere no, cannot say I really notice any difference other than being on the tube trains, you can actually see the **** in the air down there.

~20 years ago I moved to London for a few years and most years as a kid I'd spent at least a couple of weeks there and while not an every day thing finding collar, cuffs and phlegm black wasn't completely uncommon after a day out and about towards the more central areas (depending I expect on time of year and where you went, etc. I can't really remember specifics now).

Zefan · 5 Jul 2023 at 13:45

diamount said:
Are you sure you ddin't visit Bejing?

Well now you mention it it can be hard to tell the difference nowadays!!! Go on call me a gammon.

Silly Goose On The Loose · 5 Jul 2023 at 13:48

Hades said:
I've lived in or near London and worked in London all my life. London definitely has more pollution than outside of London. However, it is nowhere near as bad as it used to be in the 70s and 80s. It is definitely a lot better than then.

Because of policies like the congestion charge.

London pollution & ULEZ

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