We're looking at moving our son to a new school that's right at the corner of two major artery roads in Melbourne, with some 17 000 vehicles passing daily (just on one of them) according to VicRoads. The building doesn't appear to have a HVAC/filtration system. Playground is behind the building, but still has significant back traffic and is inside of 100-300 metres from the main roads.
I'm saying that the fumes from the cars and trucks could likely have long term health impact, but struggling to convince wife of this - she says if it was that dangerous, then why wouldn't someone have done something about it? I must clearly be paranoid.. ?
Personally, even though the small school appears otherwise excellent, I'm loath to expose him to these fumes.
I seem to have acquired an ability to taste them whilst on my bicycle commute, and will don a Respro mask when riding the streets with the most backed up traffic.