With nitrogen dioxide levels reaching above the permitted level in Madrid, authorities are enacting several measures in order to reduce the amounts of nitrogen dioxide within the city limits. Their ideas are reducing the speed limit around the city center, banning parking in areas for non-residents, and highly encouraging people to take advantage of public transportation. In a recent meeting with the city council another act to reduce the number of cars in the city by 50% was allow cars with license plates ending in even numbers to go into the city on even days, and those with odd numbers to enter on odd days. This idea didn’t prove to be particularly popular because it was rather hard to police, but it shows the desperate measures this city of Madrid is taking in order to bring the levels of nitrogen dioxide down in the city.
Other cities like Paris are following in similar pursuit, enacting emergency traffic bans during high pollution strikes. With outdoor air pollution causing more than three million deaths a year, big cities and developing urban populations are starting to take certain measures in order to reduce and maintain the spiking levels of nitrogen dioxide.
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