The Man Who Went from Driving a London Taxi to a PhD on Air Pollution
<p>How Imperial scholar Michael Hedges’ former driving career led him to green up London’s taxi’s fleet and research air pollution.</p>
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<p>Michael Hedges, 63, will be finishing his PhD this year at Imperial College on the health effects of the dust from the London Underground. After a life of driving taxis in London, how did Michael get to this point?</p>
<p>In 2000, Ken Livingstone was elected as mayor. “One of his key pledges was to reduce air pollution and reduce our carbon emissions, focusing on buses, taxis, and cycling”, he says. Michael was a union representative for taxi drivers and had meetings with the mayor’s office to develop ways to clean up the taxi fleet.</p>
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