WARNING! Since 2015 and the appearance of Crit’Air vignettes, traffic restrictions apply to certain vehicles in large cities. Shall we summarize together? 🚙 #MyMoreResponsibleProject
– Postal Bank (@LaBanquePostale) August 30, 2022
ZFE has been around for many years. They were originally called ZCR (restricted movement zones), then renamed ZFE and then ZFE-m, for low mobility emission zones. A different name, but the same principle: ban the entry into cities of cars that are considered the most polluting. For this check is based on the Crit’Air sticker, which itself is based on the age of the vehicle. Depending on the municipalities, vignettes 4 and 5 can no longer enter, some want to soon extend this ban to Crit’Air 3. But it should not stop there.
✅Only vehicles equipped with a CRIT’AIR sticker 0, 1, 2 or 3 will be allowed to travel during peak hours #pollution in the metropolis of Bordeaux pic.twitter.com/fO9UbIEga0
– Prefect of New Aquitaine and Gironde (@PrefAquitaine33) August 29, 2022
Rapid development
Indeed, the government wants to speed up the development of EPZs, thus encouraging motorists to buy less polluting cars. Indeed, from 2025, all large cities with a population of more than 150,000 inhabitants will have to meet the requirements, which is no less than 43 agglomerations. As a reminder, only 11 currently use ZFE-m, including Grand Paris, Aix-Marseille, Lyon or Toulouse and Strasbourg. But now a new decree published on December 23 could change the situation. Because it provides exceptions for certain agglomerations that may not be required to become EPZs.
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Exceptions
Thus, the document explains that it is mandatory to establish a zone in agglomerations with more than 150,000 inhabitants.” is rejected if it is demonstrated, for at least three years out of the last five years, that the average annual concentrations in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) less than or equal to 10 micrograms per m3“. A level that meets the thresholds set by WHO. Thus, large cities will be able to avoid this measure, provided that they reduce their emissions of pollutants.
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Source: Auto Plus
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