Just found an air quality sensor on Google Maps. Why is the air so bad down between Blackrock and Dundrum? I know there might be traffic but other main routes into the city seem alright.

by Tales_From_The_Hole

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  2. they love the smell of their own farts around those parts

  3. That has never worked for me on this island (it does in France), how did you get that?

  4. Purple air saying the quality isn’t bad – https://map.purpleair.com/1/mAQI/a10/p604800/cC0?select=96777#10.08/53.3467/-6.2022 

  6. It’s worse than the surroundings but not bad. Have a look at Warsaw or Turin right now

  7. Apparently this is incorrect, I contacted the council about this a few years ago, cannot remember the reason they gave though

  9. [https://aqicn.org/city/ireland/deansgrange–co.-dublin/](https://aqicn.org/city/ireland/deansgrange–co.-dublin/)

    Deansgrange is showing an AQI of 53, but most of the surronding sensors are below 30. Sometimes if there is construction happening really close to where one sensor is that can throw off the readings. Dun Laoghaire has a sensor 3km away showing an AQI of 12. So it’s likely just something happening close to the specific sensor.

  10. Just tried it for the first time, says all of Rep Ireland is the same and Belfast has the best air?
    Also I zoomed out and Skelleftea in Sweden must have an erupting volcano!

  11. They mustn’t have sensors anywhere near the ESB, Old Pump House or the incinerator because that would be off the charts.

  12. I’d bet its the bird sanctuary in booterstown that whole area usually smells like shit and worse in the heat any time the dart doors open in the station you get a bad waft

    edit* second look at the map and that’s alot further inland than I first thought probably not it

  13. Probably is just traffic you know.

    I used to work around that area and go for runs on my lunch break. The traffic is kind of constant from 8am to 6pm, Monday-Friday.

    Most other places in the city kind of clear up during the day, but around there it’s constantly busy. The two red patches have traffic lights, so you’ve lots of cars sitting there idling all the time.

  14. I’d imagine it’s related to the incinerator, it’s very near there 

  15. I stay in that part of Dublin, what you’re seeing is all the smokers. Man Dublin loves a fag.

  21. Pretty bad congestion there at rush hour, terrible traffic light timing

  22. Looks like the usual bad traffic around Stillorgan village, along with the construction on the apartments. Might be a sensor nearby.

    Looks like the standard congestion on the N11, usually between Stillorgan, brewery road and then eases around Galloping Green.

    Blackrock as far as Monkstown Avenue is usually a shit show due to the traffic lights too.

  23. If the smug cloud from black Rock collides with that smug homless fella on the northside. The results will be devastating.

  25. Saw a theory a while back around the air quality of that area. Something about it being so bad that the locals developed the nasally accent that we take the piss out of

  26. It’s hardly anything to do with it being a high Granite area releasing Radon gas? What’s Galway look like on this same map ?

  27. People talking out of their asses in South County Dublin = increased methane = bad air quality

  33. Why did the wind refuse to attend the air pollution party? Because it didn’t want to blow things out of proportion!

  37. What exactly is it measuring? I had a look at it myself and I find it hard to believe Stillorgan is worse than London, New York, or Paris.

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