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Title: Local air quality - at a bus shelter near you. Post by: grahame on December 13, 2020, 23:56:27 The major driver for rail electrification is in my view LOCAL air quality ... I have been changing MRUG timetables today - town centre bus stops and user group panel at station. Shocked at the "filth" - probably diesel particulates - I wiped off in the town center. Probably from buses waiting time with engines idling over. Could some of it be rubber from tyres? Wouldn't want that in my lungs, whichever it is. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/tt20201213_00.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/tt20201213_02.jpg) Station panel does not get dirty in the same way, mind you it's in the open; I have cleaned the shelter before now and it doesn't get to the depths of the town centre shelter. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/tt20201213_01.jpg) Yes, I know I am quoting what was supposed to be about CO2 ... This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |