Blue skies over Beijing
Fri 1st August, 2008
By Charles Jefferson
With 8 days to go it looks like some of the measures put in place by Beijing authorities to reduce pollution might really be starting to pay off. A two-month plan that started mid-July has meant that 3.3 million cars have been removed from Beijing’s streets each day, depending on whether it was a odd or even license plate number day. Cars are not the only measure with chemical plants, building construction sites, factories being shut down in the run up to the Games. Early this week media was beginning to hint that the skies were still dangerously close to pollution limits and that more drastic measures might be required involving more stringent traffic calming solutions… Fingers crossed that today’s blue skies are here to stay during the Games…
