Vehicles are seen on Chang'an Avenue at the rush hour in Beijing, August 29, 2013.
In a desperate bid to improve the Chinese capital’s choking pollution, Beijing authorities will ban half of the city’s private vehicles, and 80 percent of its public vehicles, from the roads whenever the city’s air quality index is expected to stay at a ‘hazardous’ level for three days.
The public will be informed twelve hours before the measures are to be applied, China Daily reports. Bans are to be alternately applied to cars with either odd or even license numbers.
The move adds to an ongoing municipal crackdown on industrial polluters and an effort to reduce coal burning.