How Dark-Green Is London?

The Mayor of London has released an interactive map which visualizes London's greenish infrastructure. The map shows where Londoner's convey practiced or hapless access to opened upwards greenish spaces, such every bit parks, gardens, trees together with rivers. The tool is designed to highlight where at that topographic point is to a greater extent than together with less require for investment inwards London's greenish infrastructure.

The Green Infrastructure Focus interactive map tin endure used to thought a publish of environmental layers. These include layers such every bit access to greenish world spaces, air quality, route & track dissonance together with cycling flow. The map also includes a 'composite score' which allows you lot to encounter a combined marking for all the dissimilar variables. This layer gives an overall marking which gives you lot a fossil oil thought of how 'green' every expanse of London is.

The Green Infrastructure Focus map also includes a publish of demographic layers which let you lot to thought such things every bit population density together with income deprivation. You tin also thought areas identified alongside worrying air character levels together with a layer which shows London's greenish canopy coverage.


Nitrogen dioxide emitted past times motor vehicles has been to a higher house the legal limit inwards London for longer than close people aid to remember. This agency that pedestrians & cyclists can't actually avoid pollution inwards the capital. However it is possible to cutting your exposure to air pollution inwards one-half past times avoiding the city's busiest roads.

The Cross River Partnership tin assistance you lot detect a healthier route for your walking together with cycling journeys alongside their interactive map, the Clean Air Route Finder. This map allows you lot to piece of job into a starting betoken together with a finish for your walk together with thence suggests routes that avoid the busiest roads.

The Clean Air Route Finder inwards fact suggests 3 dissimilar routes for each query. The cerise route shows the close polluted walk or ride. The greenish proposition shows you lot the route alongside the lowest pollution. The amber route is somewhere inwards the middle. The map also tells you lot the distance together with the estimated walking or biking fourth dimension for each route.