Spare the Air Bay Area Software
Company Name: The Bay Area Air Quality Management District
About: California Legislature created the Air District in 1955 as the first regional air pollution control
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Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States.
Spare the Air Bay Area Overview
Spare the Air Bay Area is the official air quality app for the nine counties that surround San Francisco Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern Solano, and southern Sonoma counties.
The Spare the Air Program was established by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to educate people about air pollution and to encourage them to improve air quality by making clean air choices.
The app provides Alert Day notifications, county by county air quality forecasts, several tools to help you personally reduce air pollution, as well as air quality podcasts.
•Local Air Reports – Provides 5-day air quality forecasts for each of the nine Bay Area counties.
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Spare the Air Bay Area is the official air quality app for the nine counties that surround San Francisco Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern Solano, and southern Sonoma counties. The app provides Alert Day notifications, county by county air quality forecasts, several tools to help you personally reduce air pollution, as well as air quality podcasts. Features •Air Alerts – Provides Alert notifications when the Bay Area is experiencing a Spare the Air Day. •Local Air Reports – Provides 5-day air quality forecasts for each of the nine Bay Area counties. •Report a Smoking Vehicle – Makes 1-800-EXHAUST smoking vehicle reports even easier by allowing users to simply text in the license plates of smoking vehicles. •Bike Route Planner – An active way to spare the air, this tool provides bike route directions and maps. •Air Quality Podcasts – Contains health and air quality podcasts from the Air District and partners such as Breathe California. The Spare the Air Program was established by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to educate people about air pollution and to encourage them to improve air quality by making clean air choices. Spare the Air Web Site > www.sparetheair.org Spare the Air Interactive Support > [email protected]
Top Reviews
By Marengo
Ignore the ignorant
App does what is expected, poor reviews seem nuts or grandpa is upset at being told not to burn wood in fireplace.
By GenerationFirst
Politics aside, it does what it advertises.
I've seen a lot of reviews bashing the spare the air policies. I respect that we all may have differing opinions, but this app does exactly what it promises: you open it and right at the top it says if it's a spare the air day or not. What else did you expect this thing to do? Sure it claims to have push notifications, but there hasn't been a STA day since I got the app so I can't comment on that. It claims to give the least smoggy bike routes, my experience has it being accurate enough. It lets you report smoking vehicles and see a forecast, but at the end of the day it has only one job: tell me if its an STA day or not! Now, if you got this app thinking there would be a button to change civic policy or thinking that this app would allow robust and meaningful discussions surrounding a cost benefit analysis of various region wide air quality interventions, then I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. This app is to tell you if it's a spare the air day or not. If you want more than that, in all sincerity, please write your senator and convince them to change the policy, not a bad app review to convince people that this app doesn't tell you if it's an STA day or not, because it does.
By Brumhilda
Does what I wanted!
I just wanted a quick and easy way to check if it was a sta day before lighting a fire...this does that! Sure there could be more bells and whistles, I guess, but it gives me the key info I'm looking for quickly.
