Reports: 'Rural' Dartford Crossing was excluded from air quality monitoring

Madeleine Cuff
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Government classified the Dartford Crossing - one of London's busiest highways - as a 'rural road', excluding it from government air quality assessments

A government decision to classify the Dartford Crossing as a rural road excluded it from government air quality assessments legally mandated by the European Union, it was revealed today. According...

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