Beijing Considers Banning 90% of All Cars for Games. AFP, July 28, 2008. "With just 11 days to go before the start of the [summer Olympics], Beijing was blanketed in a dense white haze on Monday that cut visibility in the city of 17 million down to just a few hundred metres... Last week Beijing ordered more than a million cars from the roads and closed dozens of polluting factories but the effort has failed to remove the [pollution]. Acknowledging the failure of the initial car ban... on July 20, Beijing authorities are expected to announce more stringent... measures soon... One plan... [is] to ban 90% of all private vehicles from the streets of the capital during the Games [which start August 8]." Beijing Pollution Still Twice WHO Levels, Says Greenpeace. AFP, July 28, 2008. "Beijing's air quality is still falling well short of international guidelines, despite desperate efforts... [a Greenpeace report issued Monday said]. Average concentration levels of particulates... were still twice World Health Organisation guidelines, although they had met interim targets... The report found Beijing had not acted quickly enough to upgrade its public transport... and limit private car ownership, which meant 120,000 new cars were added to the city's roads in the first quarter."
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