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ARCHIVED - Cartagena joins Murcia in providing free bus services while African dust pollution episode lasts
PM 10 particle levels dropped on Friday morning but are still in excess of the alert threshold
After the air quality dropped dramatically on Wednesday and Thursday as a cloud of mineral dust from north Africa reached the Region of Murcia it appears on Friday that the situation has improved somewhat, but in spite of this the Town Hall of Cartagena has followed the lead taken by their counterparts in Murcia and announced that travelling on public buses in and around the city will be free throughout the day.
The measurements on Friday showed that the level of PM10 particles in the air had far exceeded the tolerable threshold of 50 micrograms per cubic metre of air, reaching close to 300 µg/m3 at one point at the monitoring point in the San Basilio district of the regional capital and topping 100 in most other parts of the Region. By Friday morning the figure had dropped to 64 µg/m3 in San Basilio, 80 µg/m3 in Alumbres, just outside Cartagena and only 27 µg/m3 in Caravaca de la Cruz, but the expectation is that the problem is likely to remain in much of Spain for a few days.
In any case, it will be interesting to see the response to the offer of free public transport in Murcia and Cartagena as efforts are made to reduce the amount of traffic in the two largest cities of the Region. Who knows, if enough people take up the offer the administrations may be tempted to look at improving public transport and making it free as a long-term measure to reduce the amount of contamination produced by exhaust fumes!
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