2024-01-01 16:02:45
The metropolises of Lyon, Grenoble and Strasbourg are continuing to establish their low-emission zones (ZFE) to improve air quality by excluding more old diesel vehicles from Monday January 1.
From January 1, vehicles with the Crit’Air 4 sticker and diesels registered “between 2001 and 2005 for cars, between mid-2000 and 2004 for motorcycles and mopeds”, details the environmentalist metropolis on its site. Even more polluting, Crit’Air 5 vehicles (diesel registered before 2001) have already been banned there since the beginning of 2023.
The implementation since 2020 of the Lyon ZFE has not been achieved without tension, the debate crystallizing here as elsewhere on its effects for the most modest motorists, in the midst of a purchasing power crisis, due to the cost of less polluting, hybrid and electric vehicles. In June, the metropolis of Lyon had to scale back its perimeter extension project and postpone the ban on Crit’Air 2 vehicles planned for January 1, 2026 – these vehicles will ultimately be able to drive until January 1, 2028.
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Possible exemptions
Grenoble and twelve municipalities in its metropolis also ban Crit’Air 4 from January 1, a measure effective Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Crit’Air 5 had already been banned there since July.
Exceptions will nevertheless be possible, Grenoble-Alpes Métropole reports, particularly for people who work odd hours, traders or even collector vehicles. A period ” pedagogic “ of six months, without fines, is also planned.
Generalization in France by 2025
In the Strasbourg Eurometropolis, which has thirty-three municipalities, Crit’Air 4 vehicles were also placed under a so-called regime. ” pedagogic “ for a year, but are in turn banned from the sector on January 1, like the Crit’Air 5, banned since the beginning of 2023.
To date, eleven metropolises have started deploying EPZs, each with their own timetable. Their creations result from the mobility orientation law of 2019. A generalization in France of these zones is provided for by law by 2025 in the forty-three urban areas with more than 150,000 inhabitants.
“Every year, air pollution generates around 40,000 premature deaths, according to Public Health France (2021) [et] also causes a number of chronic conditions and diseases (cardiovascular diseases, asthma, etc.)”recalls the site of the Lyon metropolis.
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