• LucyTheBrazen [she/her]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    Car centric cities like in the US still do tbh.

    I noticed that coming from a smaller city with decent public transport to ones without it in my country.

    • YuriMihalkov [comrade/them,any]
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      edit-2
      2 years ago

      I've honestly found lots of Europe can be worse tbh, even in the smaller or less car centric cities, presumably because of how widespread diesel is. Still more liveable cities in general, but air pollution can get pretty bad all over the place.

      • LucyTheBrazen [she/her]
        hexagon
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        2 years ago

        Oh yeah, absolutely. Like despite having very decent public transport, we still have worse air quality than even more car centric cities (I'd argue less smelly still, but :shrug-outta-hecks: ), because the city I'm in geographically just "traps" all the particulates in the city area.

      • theother2020 [comrade/them, she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Sadly, Barcelona is the most polluted city I’ve ever been to for specifically automobile (and motorcycle) exhaust. Terrible diesel fumes. La Barceloneta area was the only part I could tolerate. (It’s mostly closed to cars.)