Paris To Begin Rolling Ban On Older Vehicles This Summer
Want to continue to drive in Paris? You’ll need a new vehicle starting this summer, when the French city begins restricting older vehicles from its heart.
Autocar reports buses and trucks registered prior to October 2001 will all be barred from entering the city center starting this summer; cars registered before January 1997 will be prohibited in 2016. The restrictions will roll forward through 2020, when cars registered after 2011 and motorcycles registered after this July will be the only ones allowed within.
The upcoming restrictions, as well as the nation’s own changing view on diesel, could prompt owners to ditch their older, less green vehicles for cleaner solutions like EVs and turbo-powered models, especially those made by French automakers. Incentives, such as paying €10,000 ($11,420 USD) to make the switch, would further encourage such moves.
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I should think summer spells of burning cars in Paris - old or new is the bigger polluter... So Paris should see more dented, newer cars. Wondered what those C4 Cactus panels were for. I wonder who would enforce. Paris City Police probably see it beneath their nose. Gendarmerie not their patch.
London has rules as well, and hot discussion on the topic of NOx. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/11/boris-johnson-plans-cut-london-air-pollution-too-little-too-late So, it's hardly surprising that Paris is trying to do something as well. There's nothing quite like visiting Hyde Park on a Sunday afternoon listening to the soapboxers complain about anything and everything in terms that would cause a riot in the US or Canada, while breathing in the bouquet of petrochemical smog. My eyes have a reaction, the lids puff up and close. It's the only thing I'm aware I'm allergic to. Good old NOx. What great stuff.
From the cited story "A series of rolling restrictions are expected to begin this summer, when all coaches, buses and lorries registered before 30 September 2001 are banned from central Paris. However, they are expected to be able to use the Perpherique, the giant ring road that encircles the city centre. Also on this summer’s hit list are cars registered before 31 December 1996 and vans and light trucks registered before 30 September 1997. " Gee barring very old vehicles from the CBD. ¡Quelle horreur! Banning classic cars? How many classic American cars does one see in Manhattan, San Francisco, or Chicago? Getting old cars off the street in large urban centers is more about getting beat 1990's Pg 205's (think a escort sized car that in France serves the role of the Taurus) off the road - the relatively few DS and Cv's left are of little import. Older cars also have less safety equipment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtxd27jlZ_g Yeah a 1990's car is much better then a 1955 Chevy, but a modern car is much better then a 1990's car. No matter how health care is funded the general public, not just the driving public pay costs associated with vehicular injury - fire and rescue, EMS, roadway repair, congestion associated with crashes, lost income, lost use of assets damaged/destroyed in accidents and medical costs.
Even though they're not saying it, the changing views on diesels have less to do with smog than the cancer than comes from unfiltered diesel fumes and particulates, its impact on healthcare, not to mention harm the unborn.