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Resident airs health concern over buses
A COUNCIL home tenant whose city-centre flat sees 300 buses pass his window daily is concerned about the potential health risk from air pollution. Butterwyke Place resident Charles Conlin, 55, says he is ‘infuriated’ by the buses, which run through the street between Thames Street and Speedwell Street, with traffic having worsened since work on the redevelopment of Oxford’s Westgate Centre began. Mr Conlin said: “It just feels like the bus companies are running riot with us. It is all
By Dominic Thomas elderly and infi rm people who live here and most of them are housebound, and nobody is listening to us. “They used to go past Speedwell Street and up to the shopping centre but since building started more have been rerouted here. I’ve counted 300 in one day, and that was only by early evening. “When they are all parked up, I can feel the vibrations through my house, and it’s every day from 4am to 2.30am. It keeps
me awake. My windows are also black when I have to wash them every week, which must be from the buses.” He said he was concerned for the potential health implications of living in a cul-de-sac, which backs on to the bus stand, where a notice to tell drivers to turn off their engines when stopped has been obscured by scaffolding. Mr Conlin continued: “What I’m worried about is if I’m breathing in all this air, then what is VË Í ÖjÄË Ë¬?~jËÏ
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