The exhaust from this city vehicle (Licence plate M56 745) endangers your health.

2019 Asthma Capital of the USA

The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of Arlington, Virginia in its 2019 report on most challenging places to live with asthma – which kills 10 people every day – and ranked our own Springfield, Massachusetts at the top among 100 US cities (page 5).

There are a number of factors involved in the assessment, – The report also analyzes risk factors that influence asthma outcomes, including poverty, lack of health insurance, air quality…”

In Forest Park today (Sunday) where people come get a breath of fresh air and jog or walk to improve their health, I encountered the above-pictured, vehicle three times. First, as you see above, it was parked and I smelled the stink of fuel that clings to it. Within the 50 minutes I was walking in the park, I saw it operating twice, on the same roads that babies in strollers, the elderly and veteran joggers must use, and the exhaust it puts out will gag a healthy person.

Why does the city operate this truck? Why was it driving around the park on a Sunday?