From January 2023, motorists with a Crit’Air 4 and 5 classification can no longer circulate in EPZ.

However, facing to difficulties for some to park near their homes, Toulouse City Hall decided to do reverse.

A delicate situation

Institution The ZFE is making many unhappy everywhere in France. in Toulouse, 10,000 cars I can’t anymore circulate in the metropolis of January 1, 2023.

This corresponds to the whole cars classified as Crit’Air 4 and 5. In addition to no longer being able to circulate, car drivers can’t park anymore either below from their house.

Until 2023 residents you can pay an annual subscription to park without having to pay for the parking meter.

The recent drop in lithium prices should mean cheaper batteries again, but it usually takes months for lower prices to translate into cheaper cars, in which case prices could rise again.

— Vincent #TBTBF (@AxeC975) May 11, 2023

Toulouse is coming back

Before this situation, associations demanded quick changes. Toulouse City Hall has indeed announced that it will drop the issue.

Municipal council will restore parking for 4 and 5 Crit’Air cars next June

Note that at this point controls there are no parking spaces City Toulouse, according to the town hall, which should reassure car drivers.

ZFE calendar in France

Restrictions will be imposed in other major cities. Here calendar EPZs.

• Marseille : Crit’Air 3 ban (cars and trucks). From September 1, 2024 along the inner perimeter of ring boulevards.

• Lyon : prohibition of Crit’Air 4 (private vehicles) From 1 January 2024 within the inner perimeter of the Laurent-Bonneau ring road.

• Grenoble : ban Crit’Air 3 and 4 (private vehicles). From January 1, 2024, in the perimeter of the city, as well as 13 neighboring municipalities.

• Montpellier : ban on Crit’Air 4 (car) and Crit’Air 3 (truck). From January 1, 2024, in the perimeter of the city, as well as 11 neighboring municipalities.

• Reims : prohibition of Crit’Air 3 vignettes (cars and commercial vehicles). From January 1, 2024 within the city limits.

• Strasbourg : prohibition of Crit’Air 4 vignettes (cars and commercial vehicles). From January 1, 2024, within the perimeter of the municipalities of the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg.

• pleasantly : prohibition of Crit’Air 4 vignettes (cars and commercial vehicles). From January 1, 2024, in the perimeter of the hypercenter and English embankment.