Waves of Concern — veneziablog.blogspot.com

Of course cruise ships are major polluters not just of Venice, but everywhere they go, but heavy traffic on the Rio Novo canal, which serves as a short cut between Piazzale Roma and the Grand Canal and is used by both work boats and taxis, creates air pollution well in excess of legal limits. Pollution levels so high, in fact, that last November the city council finally instituted some restrictions on traffic in that area.

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