April 10.2019
pollution has increased with respect to the same month of 2018 (with 21 days of showers). While nitrogen dioxide (NO2) grew by 24% in the measuring stations of the capital, it increased almost double (41%). "The project of Central Madrid achieves that there is less traffic and less emissions in the affected area", point out the Ecologists in Action in Spain. Pollution increases twice in the Community than in the capital The beginning of Central Madrid, has been a success civic.

The month of March has been the least rainy in years, so pollution has increased throughout Spain ", explains Juan Bárcena, leader of the Ecologists in Action movement. Despite this increase, pollution seems to be controlled in the city: "It has not increased as much and even the NO2 has dropped three stations: in the Plaza del Carmen [decrease of 17%], the only one in the interior of Central Madrid; in La Castellana [5%] and in Plaza de Castilla [5%], these two far from the area of ​​restrictions ". For the spokesman of Ecologists, "Central Madrid is working to lower pollution".

The measurements of the particle pollution control network made up of 24 stations in the capital and another 23 distributed throughout the rest of the region seems to be right. The stations where NO2 levels rise the most are those of the Community, the furthest from Central Madrid. Alcorcón leads (119% increase) and is followed by Móstoles (107%); Valdemoro (92%); and Leganés (90%). No trace of the so-called border effect (which transfers the damage of road traffic to areas bordering an area with restrictions