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Urgent Camden Pollution Monitoring Insights

over the last few months the pollution monitoring project has been repeated by groups all over Camden the Green Party groups in Kentish town councillors in hi gay gospel oak we've been putting a much greater number of pollution monitoring tubes up on lampposts right across the borough so we now are just getting back the results to give us a really detailed picture of pollution right across Camden I know that here at Kentish Town High Street we're seeing a reading of nearly a hundred micrograms per meter cubed of nitrogen dioxide which is two and a half times the legal limit it's amazing how much more of the pollution that makes the smog is produced by diesel cars versus petrol cars and of course we have a lot of buses a lot of HGVs on busy routes like this that are also putting out pollution it's not pollution simply flowing in from the continent weather conditions make it worse but really it's about the amount of traffic and the types of vehicles we have on the road and making changes to that is what's really going to solve this problem Londoners are suffering from this pollution the legal limit isn't a safe limit anyway but by having air pollution at the levels that we do researchers have calculated this year that nearly nine and a half thousand Londoners are dying early every year from this problem it's a public health emergency and we absolutely have to be dealing with