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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

End of the road for Delhi's old cars as India battles smog

Vehicles move along New Delhi's Connaught Place during evening hours By Tommy Wilkes NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian court has banned all vehicles older than 15 years from the streets of the capital, New Delhi, in a bid to clean up air that one prominent study this year found to be the world's dirtiest. The ruling hits up to a third of the 8.4 million motorbikes, trucks, cars and auto-rickshaws that ply the traffic-choked roads of Delhi and its surrounding areas, transport officials estimate. Cities across the world are ordering older vehicles off the road or restricting private car use to tackle growing air pollution. ...




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