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Do you live near a main road?

I just wondered how damaging traffic pollution is as I live in Manchester about 150 m away from a main road, I went to Buxton recently and the air smells so fresh so I just wondered what do you think.

Reply 1

quintsy

17

I live right next to the road which runs along the seafront in my town, which is pretty main, but not quite on the same scale as the road you're talking about I doubt.

I'm sure the council measures the air quality regularly, but if you are worried then I'd contact them and they might be able to give you details about it.

*Edit*- Found some links on the Manchester city council website:

-http://www.manchester.gov.uk/envhealth/pollution/index.htm - The main page on air pollution in Manchester

- http://www.airquality.co.uk/archive/index.php - The air quality archive for the UK

Reply 2

dremmel

lol i dont believe in such rubbish, we are all gonna die of something... i live by a main road and its nice, always ppl around never alone unlike uni where its too quiet and i get freaked out

Reply 3

Louher

I live on a main road at home and on a main road at Uni. I don't even notice. When i'm at uni I actually prefer it as there's been a lot of break in's in the more private roads coming off myn, where as myn is too busy for anyone to be able to get in without it being blatently obvious what their doing.

Reply 4

Bluelight

13

ironically i live on the main road which leads up to buxton, ive been to buxton and cant tell that much of a difference, but then again i suppose its different living in a city than in a town.

Reply 5

Sam Beckett

7

The pollution doesn't bother me, I can close the windows. It's more the noise, especially the sirens of the emergency services :mad:

Reply 6

saturn

OP

Bluelight

ironically i live on the main road which leads up to buxton, ive been to buxton and cant tell that much of a difference, but then again i suppose its different living in a city than in a town.

I live in a town its actually grt Manchester, to me Buxton was really fresh as its near some moors etc.

Reply 7

saturn

OP

suuuuuuseh

I live right next to the road which runs along the seafront in my town, which is pretty main, but not quite on the same scale as the road you're talking about I doubt.

I'm sure the council measures the air quality regularly, but if you are worried then I'd contact them and they might be able to give you details about it.

*Edit*- Found some links on the Manchester city council website:

-http://www.manchester.gov.uk/envhealth/pollution/index.htm - The main page on air pollution in Manchester

- http://www.airquality.co.uk/archive/index.php - The air quality archive for the UK

Thanks

Im not worried enough to contact them but cheers for the info, I read quite a bit of it most places have the same pollution amount :confused:

Reply 8

TomaDamons

i live 50m away from one of the busiest roads taking traffic into and out of sheffield and i havent really noticed any difference when i go into the country. tho ever since we moved to the new house, i got hayfeaver. lol

Reply 9

Bluelight

13

saturn

I live in a town its actually grt Manchester, to me Buxton was really fresh as its near some moors etc.

i cant tell a bit of difference in the air when im anywhere else unless its a smoky pub room. I wouldnt be worried about the detrimental effects of pollution unless you were in the city centre every day, which you arent, and even in that case, its nothing life threatening plus if you lived in the freshness all the time you'd get used to it.

Reply 10

Pandy

10

I can see the A40 from my house (about 100m?). It's not as bad as one might think. Though air is certainly fresher elsewhere...

Reply 11

amk

I actualy live on the A23, the pollution isnt that bad, what with all the trees and other green bits and bobs.

I actualy miss the pollution when i go to university tbh :/

Reply 12

FlutterByKisses

1

Back home I live on the A4 in London, and in Keele.. well, it's Keele and in the middle of nowhere. I love the air at uni. It really is a lot fresher. I love being to walk outside and see squirrels and hear the birds and stuff without the sound of traffic blocking most of it out. My stretch of the A4 is really busy. Never stops. I'm also under Heathrows flight path so have to suffer the aeroplanes. I don't notice the noise really when I go home as I'm used to it, I don't even seem to notice the air all that much when I go back, but when I get back to Keele again I really do notice the difference dramatically.

Reply 13

Mush

17

the sound of a distant motorway through my open window at night soothes me :smile:

Reply 14

drawmeamonkey

1

i live on a B road at home, and the busiest bus route in europe when i'm at uni, so i'm kinda used to the smell of spent petrol and diesel.

i definitely notice it when i go away to the moors/countryside though.

i don't think its incredibly harmful, modern cars have much lower emissions than those from the past.

pretty sure i remember reading something about living on a main road reducing your life expectancy though :eek:

i'm just gonna escape to the country when i'm older and can afford to, hopefully the damage will reverse itself!

Reply 15

Pandy

10

ainat87

Back home I live on the A4 in London, and in Keele.. well, it's Keele and in the middle of nowhere. I love the air at uni. It really is a lot fresher. I love being to walk outside and see squirrels and hear the birds and stuff without the sound of traffic blocking most of it out. My stretch of the A4 is really busy. Never stops. I'm also under Heathrows flight path so have to suffer the aeroplanes. I don't notice the noise really when I go home as I'm used to it, I don't even seem to notice the air all that much when I go back, but when I get back to Keele again I really do notice the difference dramatically.

Where's that then? Near Osterley? My mate lives there and though there's planes all the time, you stop noticing it after a while to be honest. The road isn't too much trouble either as the lucky git lives behind a "shield" of houses. I live right next to RAF Northolt and theres always a helicopter or light aircraft around. Ironically it's not even the roads which make the most noise :p:

Reply 16

hapa_girl

7

saturn

I just wondered how damaging traffic pollution is as I live in Manchester about 150 m away from a main road, I went to Buxton recently and the air smells so fresh so I just wondered what do you think.

I've come from Lincolnshire (fields, horses, trees and nothing) to Manchester for uni... and you probably already know the uni is right by the city centre... I noticed how filthy the air was in Manc as soon as I got there... so much pollution. But it doesn't bother me :biggrin:

I love it in Manc

Reply 17

Tarts_n_Vicars

13

When I lived in Brum my bedroom window was about 50m max from a slip road off the M6 lol. Can't say it did me any harm, and the traffic noise helped me sleep at night.

Reply 18

strawberry

13

my grandmother lives on a main road....but I think the only negative side of that is that the floors get so dirty easily

Reply 19

sweetface.

Yeah i live on a main road.

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