Mastodawn

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/12/air-pollution-paris-health-cars/

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NoBorg

@BrentToderian

Air quality improved not just in Paris, but all around, you can notice it in the map itself. You can notice that air quality is even better outside of Paris (where there has been little change in the use of cars).
So the improvement may be due to changes in car technology, newer cars pollute less and there are fewer diesel cars than before.