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Pollution levels plummet on Oxford Road as people stop driving - but how will leaders keep the air clean after lockdown?

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With its mix of commuting students and city-bound commuters, Oxford Road has long been renowned as one of the busiest bus routes in Europe.

Thanks to road restrictions put in place in 2017 including Dutch-style cycle lanes and no-go zones for regular traffic, transport bosses managed to create on some stretches, a relatively traffic-free haven for cyclists and pedestrians.

But pollution levels in some areas remained high - as seen by this M.E.N. investigation which looked at particulate levels two years ago - and despite concerted pollution-reduction efforts by Stagecoach with its launch of a fleet of zero emission buses.

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