{"id":1497,"date":"2012-12-05T22:46:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T14:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2012-12-05T22:46:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T14:46:27","slug":"london-most-polluted-capital-in-eu-1952-great-smog-a-child-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/2012\/12\/05\/london-most-polluted-capital-in-eu-1952-great-smog-a-child-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"London most polluted capital in EU. 1952 Great Smog. A child dies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to see in an article at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-20269309\">BBC today that London has the worst air pollution in the EU<\/a>. I remember working in the Square Mile in the mid 80s and having permanently black bogies and a sore throat which only abated when I went on holiday. I thought things had moved on.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k6Ww0ONdhg4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In another story a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-20606244\">child died after the car she was in was hit by a train on a level crossing<\/a>. The article quotes people saying that level crossings should be replaced by tunnels or bridges but that the cost of doing so is prohibitive.<\/p>\n<p>I wish we could lower the unladen weight limit for vehicles in built-up areas to somewhere in the region of 100kg, with appropriate power-to-weight restrictions for the 30-40mph speeds in such places.<\/p>\n<p>Air pollution would be reduced by the drastically lowered engine outputs of such vehicles. I suggest air quality would be further improved by the reduction in apparent danger from such vehicles helping more people to consider cycling and walking as modes of transport.<\/p>\n<p>Bridges over level crossings in built-up areas could be much less substantial &#8211; and consequently cheaper &#8211; structures if they had only to accommodate lightweight vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to see in an article at the BBC today that London has the worst air pollution in the EU. I remember working in the Square Mile in the mid 80s and having permanently black bogies and a sore throat which only abated when I went on holiday. I thought things had moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40,60],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broken","category-life","category-money","tag-broken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}