Are ZEPs in danger? If we can’t say it for sure yet, then we have to say that they no longer have wind in their sails, we have to admit it. Indeed, while the government wants all cities with more than 150,000 inhabitants to become ZFEs from 2025, this measure will be increasingly compromised. Indeed, many elected officials protest as much low emission zones, from which the oldest cars are simply excluded. According to some, this can lead to a real “social bomb”.

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

Delayed ban

In Marseilles, as in the Senate, we are really starting to rebel against the government. And the movement is still ongoing, while the Metropolis of Greater Paris also wants to review its plans. Initially, it was planned that all cars with a Crit’Air 3 thumbnail will be excluded from EPZ from July 1, 2023. But this may change over time. In any case, that’s what Patrick Hollier, the current president of the Métropole du Grand Paris, wants. The latter spoke to Le Parisien to express himself on the subject and what the report offers.

After the Olympics

When asked by our colleagues, he really offered ” elected officials must keep the July 2023 deadline to implement a new ban on polluting cars in the Ile-de-France ZFE or postpone after the Olympics“. This would delay the entry into force of this measure until 2024 or even 2025. A brief reprieve for concerned motorists, more than 380,000 of whom will be banned from Greater Paris if the Crit’Air 3 sticker is banned.