Thursday, February 5, 2015

Madrid restrict traffic when climbing pollution – Sputnik World

Madrid restrict traffic when climbing pollution – Sputnik World

Spain

(updated 05.02.2015 19:25)

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Starting on March 1, the city of the capital of Spain will limit the speed on the first ring road and the access roads to Madrid. On the second day the risk levels are exceeded, also restrict the driveway to the center of the city.

The European Union provides only one level of pollution alert occurs when three stations Control measure in the same area more than 400 micrograms per cubic meter of nitrogen for two hours straight.

Ana Botella, wife of Spanish president José María Aznar, he added today at a press conference that Madrid “has not had never a situation of pollution alert “and are” very sporadic “episodes of high concentration of nitrogen dioxide (NO2).

Between 2011 and 2014 the average pollution fell in Madrid, the city most populous in Spain with more than three million people, of 45-35 micrograms per cubic meter of nitrogen dioxide, which is below the legal limit imposed by Brussels, 40.

But in 2104 six 24 measuring stations have exceeded the annual legal limit. In July, the City opened a new parking meters to penalize the most polluting cars (the motor pre-2006 diesel and gasoline with more than 15 years in operation).

The economic crisis has doubled the average age of cars 5.7 years in 2008 to 9.3 years in 2013.

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