We reported on it a few days ago, but I guess the idlefreephilly.org hotline wasn’t official yet. Well, yesterday the Clean Air Council did the unveiling of the hotline. Here is a story from the Philadelphia Inquirer about it…
City unveils hotline to report idling trucks, buses
In a city that has trouble getting residents to rat on criminals, officials now want Philadelphians to tattle on a new kind of miscreant: truckers and bus drivers who leave their engines idling, spewing pollutants into the air.
Yesterday, the Clean Air Council unveiled a hotline and Web resource, www.idlefreephilly.org – yes, there’s an iPhone app – where sidewalk sleuths can report where, when, and how long idling occurs.
Both city and state regulations prohibit drivers from leaving their engines idling for more than five minutes. And the article continues…
