London’s Congestion Pricing Cuts Emissions, Study Says
by Kate Trainor on March 16, 2008
A recent study by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and King’s College has found that London’s congestion pricing initiative has not only reduced emissions, but has effected better health in city residents.
The study, published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, found that Londoners are already reaping the benefits of its newly implemented congestion pricing zones. Collectively, they’ve added an extra 1,888 years to residents’ lives, said the study, and have significantly diminished pollutants, particularly in low-emissions zones. Reductions were most remarkable in the congestion pricing zones. According to the study, “Absolute and relative reductions in NO2 and PM10 (particulate matter) were greatest within the congestion charging zone wards.”
The study also addressed the additional health hazards of vehicular traffic:
“Evidence from epidemiological research indicates exposure to traffic is associated with a number of adverse health impacts including mortality, myocardial infarction, and impaired lung development in children.”
The study reported “modest” reductions in NO2 and PM10 emissions, both known to cause bronchitis, asthma, and other respiratory ailments. The reductions may be “modest,” but Mayor Ken Livingstone has only begun to introduce congestion pricing to Londoners; most zones have only been in place since early February.
The study may be premature, but it does prove that London’s low emissions laws are already making an impact, and are merely a precursor to further reductions in car use and pollutants. For London’s low emissions, this is only the beginning. If only other countries would catch on.
Photos via flickr by inel & disbona.
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London’s Congestion Pricing Cuts Emissions, Study Says
by Joshua Liberles on March 16, 2008
A recent study by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and King’s College has found that London’s congestion pricing initiative has not only reduced emissions, but has affected better health in city residents.
The study, published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, found that Londoners are already reaping the benefits of its newly implemented congestion pricing zones. Collectively, they’ve added an extra 1,888 years to residents’ lives, said the study, and have significantly diminished pollutants, particularly in low-emissions zones. Reductions were most remarkable in the congestion pricing zones. According to the study, “Absolute and relative reductions in NO2 and PM10 (particulate matter) were greatest within the congestion charging zone wards.”
The study also addressed the additional health hazards of vehicular traffic:
“Evidence from epidemiological research indicates exposure to traffic is associated with a number of adverse health impacts including mortality, myocardial infarction, and impaired lung development in children.”
The study reported “modest” reductions in NO2 and PM10 emissions, both known to cause bronchitis, asthma, and other respiratory ailments. The reductions may be “modest,” but Mayor Ken Livingstone has only begun to introduce congestion pricing to Londoners; most zones have only been in place since early February.
The study may be premature, but it does prove that London’s low emissions laws are already making an impact, and are merely a precursor to further reductions in car use and pollutants. For London’s low emissions, this is only the beginning. If only other countries would catch on.
Photos via flickr by inel & disbona.
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- London’s Congestion Pricing Cuts Emissions, Study Says
- Congestion Pricing Pays in London (and NYC?)
- New York State Assembly Quashes Congestion Pricing Plan
- New York City Council Approves Congestion Pricing
- AAA Study: Cars, Congestion, Cost, and Carnage
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Here’s one for you. I bet the kiddie hummers are plug-in electrics…
“What happens when Hummer-lovers procreate?”
At these gas prices, They ride their bike to work like myself. Or they are like the Owner of the Oriental restaurant I visit regularly. She sold her H2 for a Benz that gets a tad better GPM.
Besides hummer owners are real people too, so suck up your pride and get to know your neighbor, step down from you judges bench, you’ll be better off and less bitter. Also you’ll have a better chance at converting them by getting to know them, than shooting arrows at them over the internet, and looking down your nose at them over the fence.
Besides I’d like to scoop some of those little toy cars up because they will be a collectors item some day. And if they get cheep enough I’d buy a Real H1 or maybe a H2 as a collectors item. If my boys are anything like me they would love to have a piece of history like the H1.
Hummer drivers could use more than a carectomy, they need the Planet Police:
http://video.titantv.com/content/000B00CP/video.aspx