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Bogotá Cyclists Built a $100 Sensor to Prove the Bus Was Worse Than the Street

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🇨🇴 Colombia

A cyclist-engineer and an activist in Bogotá turned a few hours of soldering into a citizen network whose homemade sensors found bus cabins with air up to ten times worse than elsewhere in the city.

100USDApproximate upper cost to build one CanAirIO sensor
10times worseWorst-case air on Bogotá buses vs other parts of the city
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