London air pollution

[Second Summer]

Pollution levels in some parts of London are so high they breached acceptable limits for the whole of 2016 in just the first week.

Putney High Street and Knightsbridge are the worst offenders so far according to London Air, an organisation which measures levels of harmful fumes like nitrogen dioxide.

More: London breaches annual air pollution limits in just a WEEK (10. January 2016)

The article also mentions Oxford Circus.

As I've mentioned before, I often suffer from black snot after having visited London.

 

[Second Summer]

The problems persist:

The scale of London’s air pollution crisis was laid bare on Wednesday, with new figures showing that every person in the capital is breathing air that exceeds global guidelines for one of the most dangerous toxic particles.

The research, based on the latest updated London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory, shows that every area in the capital exceeds World Health Organisation (WHO) limits for a damaging type of particle known as PM2.5.

More: Revealed: every Londoner breathing dangerous levels of toxic air particle (4. October 2017)

 

[hungryraccoon]

I was going to mention the black snot but you got there first

 

[Second Summer]

I hope there can be some progress in the near future, though, now that the problem is better documented and is receiving more media coverage. The Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) comes into force in 2020.
Ultra Low Emission Zone

Oxford has the most ambitious plan so far, though, with its Zero Emission Zone, starting in 2020, and then expanding in 2025 and 2030.
Oxford to introduce bans on all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2020