* Delhi - While you are sleeping: 80,000 trucks enter on the City every night
-- It’s nearing midnight, and a dense shroud of dust and smoke hangs over this checkpost 500m away from the Shahdara flyover in Delhi’s east. This is one of over 100 checkposts for trucks that enter the city — an estimated 80,000, from 8pm to 6am, at just over two per second... Already down on its knees, its air full of that lethal dust called respirable suspended particulate matter (RSPM) that reached an average high of 316 µg/m3 this year, it’s the last thing Delhi needs... Thousands of unmonitored trucks driving through its heart, each injecting a dose of poison in the air over the residential colonies on either side, because one of the two expressways meant to keep them out of Delhi is a semi-built road, and the other is still on paper... A spokesperson from the East Municipal Corporation of Delhi said that according to their estimates, an average of “around 80,000 trucks enter Delhi every night”. “In the early 2000s, it was estimated that 50,000 trucks were coming into Delhi,” added...
(Photo by Praveen Khanna - Trucks at the Shahdara checkpost in Delhi at midnight March 31) -- New Delhi, India - The Nation, by Pritha Chatterjee, Aniruddha Ghosal, Mayura Janwalkar - April 3, 2015 Labels: trucks' pollution
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