Reducing air pollution - parks or trees?

[Grayham 2]

The Sc4devotion wiki lists the air pollution effects of (nearly) all the parks but doesn't say anything about the effectiveness of trees. Do trees reduce air pollution as much as parks?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Why don't you just test this and report?

[Roberto_Ruiz 1]

Trees are better to fight pollution but parks provide cap relief and residential and/or commercial desiriability, also you can put extra trees on almost any park to help with pollution at the expense of the park looking good.

 

There is an old thread with a similar question and it's answers:

 

HTH

[Turjan 1,048]

The Sc4devotion wiki lists the air pollution effects of (nearly) all the parks but doesn't say anything about the effectiveness of trees. Do trees reduce air pollution as much as parks?

 

They do. If you have some big polluters on your map, you can plant a tree belt around them, and your tile may still get the "getaway" reward. If you plant low bushes (well, also trees, but that looks silly) under a monorail track, you will trigger upgrading of surrounding residentials.

 

The effect was, btw, first shown in one of the original promotional videos for SimCity 4. I think they didn't even have avenues at that time, so they put down two roads with one tile distance in between where they then put trees, which took care of pollution.

[gviper 922]

Personally, I am a big fan of parks, trees and SimGoober's air purification units...