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Air quality near busy Australian roads up to 10 times worse than official figures

  • Written by Hugh Forehead, Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
Air quality near busy Australian roads up to 10 times worse than official figuresFABRIZIO BENSCH/ Reuters

Air quality on Australia’s roads matters. On any given day (when we’re not in lockdown) people meet, commute, exercise, shop and walk with children near busy streets. But to date, air quality monitoring at roadsides has been inadequate.

I and my colleagues wanted to change that. Using materials purchased from...

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