Areas of Manchester city centre still recorded ‘dangerously high’ levels of pollution weeks into lockdown, experts have found.
In some areas of Manchester nitrogen oxide readings dropped by more than 40 per cent in the three weeks after the coronavirus lockdown began.
But several sites, such as the Mancunian Way, continued to have high levels of the pollutant. Scientists at Manchester Metropolitan University say this could be because transport doesn’t account for all pollution - industry, residential and commercial gas and oil combustion all play a part. “The decrease in heavy traffic has done an incredible job in reducing some of the city’s harmful pollution levels, as we have seen from the data, but we cannot ignore the bigger picture and