Paris: public transport free of charge three days to combat pollution
Have you ever considered the turnout that public transport from Lisbon or Porto have this weekend, if they were free? That's the reality that tourists and residents in Paris will be already from today, as a way of encouraging motorists to leave their vehicles at home.The measure comes at a time when the French capital is suffering very high levels of pollution, explains the Less A Car, being that the air will remain exceptionally harmful to health until the weekend.Jean-Paul Huchon, Chief of transport inspection agency in Paris and surrounding areas, said that transport will be free from today until Sunday night, due to "significant risks to the health of residents" posed by pollution.The level of the index on the overall quality of the air in Paris, yesterday, was approximately the same as in Beijing, one of the most polluted cities in the world. In total, more than 30 French departments were the subject of alerts for maximum levels of pollution, leading the Minister of Ecology, Philippe Martin, to qualify the air quality as "an emergency and a priority for the Government".The city of Caen, in the North, also decided to free public transport for three days, due to pollution. Reims in the Northeast, will do the same on Friday. The lack of wind, plus cold nights, followed by mild days, has contributed to the severe air pollution.At night, the land cools, as the atmosphere warms up during the day, due to the Sun, which means the particulate pollutants emitted by automobiles or heated get stuck under a layer of hot air and cannot ascend or be dispersed.As a result, monitoring centres reported particularly strong concentrations of particles with a diameter of less than 10 microns, PM10, particles in the air designated.In neighboring Belgium, on the other hand, the pollution will also affect the day-to-day lives of citizens. The authorities have reduced the maximum permitted speed on the main routes, in order to try to reduce the heavy concentration of particulate pollutants in the atmosphere.Foto: www.FranceHouseHunt.com/Creative Commons
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