Paris is so smoggy that the city will pay for your bus fare

PARIS — As the fabled City of Light faces its highest pollution levels in more than a decade, authorities have banned half of its drivers from city streets and made public transportation free to accommodate the overflow. Experts say the unusually smoggy skies are a function of emissions from power plants, traffic and heating — particularly […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/12/08/paris-is-so-smoggy-that-the-city-will-pay-for-your-bus-fare/