The high air pollution of cities forces institutions to take steps to improve air quality. Most of the pollution in large cities is due to transportation and circulation. In city centers there are usually traffic jams, congestion and a large number of vehicles in circulation at the same time (many of them with only one passenger).
That is why the Valladolid City Council has urged neighbors to use public transport more or use the bike to go to work or for their daily commutes. This has been due to a record of a very high air pollution episode due to the increase in nitrogen dioxide. Will the fact that citizens ride the bicycle more work?
Record of a high pollution episode
When an episode of high pollution is registered in a city, measures are started to solve the problem and, in addition, preventive measures are proclaimed to prevent such a high episode from happening again. Yesterday in Valladolid it was reached record 187 micrograms per cubic meter of air at the Arco Ladrillo stations, at 20.00:200 p.m. solar time; Although they do not exceed the air quality threshold of XNUMX micrograms, they do require a preventive situation to be activated.
A high concentration of pollutants in the atmosphere and breathed in by citizens can drastically increase the number of cardiorespiratory diseases and cases of asthma.
Pollution is set to increase
Due to the anticyclones that are taking place, the dispersion of pollution in the cities is lower. That is why the concentration continues to increase and is expected to increase even more. In order to anticipate this possible increase, in which 200 micrograms per cubic meter of air are exceeded, the City Council has urged citizens to use public transport or bicycles.
In this situation where pollution increases, it would lead to a traffic restriction in the historic part of the city. The City Council has recalled that nitrogen dioxide can cause inflammatory reactions in the lung and asthmatic reactions.