Alternate-day car ban in place in Indian capital,with 27 categories of motorist exempt including female drivers and the prime ministerDelhi is to implement a fortnight-long driving ban that will catch more than a million private cars off the road from unusual Year’s Day in an experiment critics say falls far short of what is needed to lower the Indian capital’s lethal pollution levels. For two weeks from Friday, only alternate-day travel will be permitted between 8am and 8pm for private cars with odd- and even-numbered licence plates, and while thousands of trucks carrying commercial goods will be discouraged from driving through the city.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com