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Drive to Disaster - Pollution on city roads
Cars, safest bet
IT IS only when you see the two-wheelers, especially college-girls fully armoured with shades, scarves, helmet, pollution mask and elbow length gloves that one can understand the intensity of pollution on roads. To a certain extent, the autorickshaws filter some of the dust and smoke, unless it is caught next to the exhaust pipe of a huge bus or a truck, in which case the passenger inside the autorickshaw would be doused with a generous layer of grey make-up. In my observation and experience, having used different modes of vehicles, I find that the four wheelers do not really expose an individual to pollution. Due to the raised seating on top of big tyres, pollution doesn't hit hard when inside a bus. The safest bet is within the high-raised dark windows of cars where the air-condition is set to circulation mode, making driving that much more easier.
Mythreye J
Sultanate of Oman
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