Brussels to give under-25s free public transport from next year
Air quality
The increased investment in public transport – at a time when transit authorities globally are tightening their belts – comes as Brussels’ record on air quality has been under scrutiny.
In October, the cityteamed upwith Bloomberg Philanthropies to launch theBrussels Clean Air Partnership,bringing together government, universities, local research centers, and NGOs to deliver a science-based, coordinated approach to curb air pollution throughout the Brussels-Capital Region. The initiative will use low-cost technologies to monitor air pollution and fill in data gaps in ground-level local pollution data.
Air pollution claims an estimated 9,000 lives every year in Belgium and over 400,000 premature deaths in Europe annually, according to the latestEuropean Environment Agency (EEA) report.
In June 2019, The EU’s top courtruledthat Brussels could no longer rely on its past practice of averaging air pollution measures across the city – something environmental groups said glossed over the scale of pollution at key sites, such as the EU district.
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