Glasgow – Our Air-mazing City
17.09.23
Perplexed by particulates? Dazed by dioxides? Join GPs, paediatricians and public health professionals on a cycling celebration of some of our city’s air quality interventions, and learn why these are so important for the health of our children.
Perplexed by particulates? Dazed by dioxides? Join GPs, paediatricians and public health professionals on a cycling celebration of some of our city’s air quality interventions, and learn why these are so important for the health of our children.
Fair air: we start at the SEC, home of COP26 – the final destination of the first Ride For Their Lives. Interventions to reduce air pollution are almost always slow climate change at the same time.
Air ways: while touring the perimeter of the Low Emission Zone, we’ll detour onto some of the delightful traffic-free routes that avoid exposure to vehicle-related pollution.
Air-born: passing the Royal Infirmary and Princess Royal Maternity Hospital, we’ll reflect on the evidence that exposure to air pollution increases rates of prematurity and low birthweight, and how – like the smoking ban - improving air quality can improve our health throughout our lives.
Airfield: we’ll detour along the canal to the Hamiltonhill Claypits - a fabulous greenspace, accessible to many with no need to burn any fossil fuel to get there. We may pause to re-fuel with food!
Air-brake: we’ll stop as we pass the kerbside air quality monitoring station in Hope Street, to explain differences between 2021 Scottish air quality objectives and those now advised by the World Health Organisation based on the latest evidence.
Our gentle 9.5mile pedal ends at George Square, in sight of the City Chambers – a good place to ask councillors to keep on heeding the evidence, and make Glasgow Air-mazing!