Well....Focus (the German news magazine) picked up the story today and I suspect it'll be national talk by tomorrow night. Around four months ago, in the midst of the chatter in Germany over diesel car pollution....some folks started to ask questions about the monitoring stations in all the major German cities, and if 'poor' monitoring was possible. Focus finally picked up the story.
Basically....a high number of the air measurement stations in Germany simply don't comply with EU mandated rules. You have to have a minimum distance of 25 meters from the nearest intersection.
The defense to the argument? Well....the authorities say that they placed the stations at these points....before EU regulations came out.
So an order came out by national (federal) authorities to have a station by station review. Some meet the EU regulation.....some don't.
In some cases, the authorities came back and said something has to done in some cases (movement suggested). Oddly enough, as the story is told....some Green Party folks aren't happy about the suggested movement to meet EU regulations.
Does the position issue create an unnecessary problem with the diesel crisis? No one is really saying much about that.
You would think some PhD-level study would be done and talk about placement and how a solid strategy is necessary, with stringent rules.
Will this make it into the top ten news items? I doubt it.
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