I wonder if there's every been a study if the air quality in the montreal metro vs comparable cities. Or even within Montreal... does the blue line use tires? (Edit, yes, for some reason I thought one line didn't have them, apparently they all do)
I was told the tires are to reduce noise but I wonder if part of it is to handle some of the steeper sections like Vendome up to Villa Maria.
To preempt accusations that the automotive endproduct isn't represented by this study, I'll concede it's next to impossible to have conclusive studies on specific forms of road pollution, that is, the best one can do is find a link between (rail)cars and cancer but nothing more specific than that :)
--Until they replace rubber in wheels with something else, I guess. Meanwhile, feel free to accept the reindustrialization
I wonder if there's every been a study if the air quality in the montreal metro vs comparable cities. Or even within Montreal... does the blue line use tires? (Edit, yes, for some reason I thought one line didn't have them, apparently they all do)
I was told the tires are to reduce noise but I wonder if part of it is to handle some of the steeper sections like Vendome up to Villa Maria.
Fine particulates don't 'bother' you until you have that lung cancer diagnosis.
> Fine particulates don't 'bother' you until you have that lung cancer diagnosis.
Care to point out a source that supports a hypothetical link between rubber wheels and lung cancer?
Tires contain carcinogens. That's not purely hypothetical, it has been known for a while.
The extent of impact is still being investigated, but we've known there is a carcinogenic link since before 2000.
[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6947500/
Hypothetical you ask for?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1757501/
To preempt accusations that the automotive endproduct isn't represented by this study, I'll concede it's next to impossible to have conclusive studies on specific forms of road pollution, that is, the best one can do is find a link between (rail)cars and cancer but nothing more specific than that :)
--Until they replace rubber in wheels with something else, I guess. Meanwhile, feel free to accept the reindustrialization