RATP tackles underground air pollution

by time news

2023-09-01 18:31:48

The Paris transport authority and the Île-de-France region want to reduce fine particle emissions emitted during braking.

In May, the team of the show ” Green of Rage(France 5) delivered the results of eight months of investigation to document the measurement of PM2.5 (particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers), suspended in the air, in all the stations of the Paris metro. The report will be broadcast ” in October ” assures the journalist Martin Boudot.

The latter was auditioned on September 1 afternoon by Île-de-France Mobilités, which is finally taking the subject seriously. « There is not the thickness of a sheet of cigarette paper between the RATP and us to move forward on the issue of air quality », assures Laurent Probst, managing director of Île-de-France Mobilités, the union which finances and supervises transport in the region.

Alarming results

In the France 5 documentary, dozens of volunteers measured fine particle pollution“on 435 platforms of 332 stations of the entire metro and RER network, excluding zones 3, 4 and 5 from Monday to Friday”.These results, disputed by…

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