Pedestrians Inhale Less Pollution than Passengers
| When strolling alongside a busy city street on a smoggy summer day, it may seem as if riding in one of the taxis streaming by might provide a respite from the exhaust-choked air. Instead new research from London reveals that taxi rides take a toll on your lungs as well as your wallet. In fact, taxi cabins expose drivers and riders to more air pollution than any other form of transportation, according to the results of a survey by Surbjit Kaur and her colleagues at Imperial College London. Armed with particle detectors, volunteers measured their pollution exposure as they took a total of 584 trips either by taxi, car, bus, bicycle or just plain walking on Marylebone Road in central London and in surrounding areas over the course of three weeks in April and May of 2003. This was seized 4 u at Scientific American |
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