The Strasbourg metropolis endorsed the establishment of a ZFE extending on the 33 municipalities of its territory. Many common municipalities are unfavorable.
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The Eurométropole of Strasbourg has taken a decisive step in the fight against air pollution by voting, Friday, October 15, the establishment of a low-emission-mobility zone (ZFE-M) from January 1, 2022 (ZFE-M) on the entire area. For now, only Paris and its metropolis have such a zone. In Lyon and Grenoble, the device is limited to commercial vehicles.
In Strasbourg, from 1 Er January 2023, after a first year “to white” where only educational controls will take place, the private and professional vehicles with a vignette criterion 5 and Without vignette criteria will be prohibited to traffic in the entire agglomeration of 500,000 inhabitants, twenty-four hours per twenty-four and 365 days a year. The prohibition will extend in 2024 to the Crit’air 4, then to the Crit’air 3 a year later. The extension to all diesel vehicles from 2028, accompanied by a three-year pedagogical phase, on the other hand, should be the subject of a subsequent decision.
Four communes of the Alsatian metropolis (Strasbourg, Schiltigheim, Ostwald and Holtzheim), representing two-thirds of its population, however, decided to commit itself in this direction. A two-step governance that summarizes the difficulty for this agglomeration of 33 municipalities to reach a homogeneous position on the issue. Half of the municipalities have also opposed or abstained during the vote.
Unique calendar
Since the first reflections engaged on the subject, in 2016, the EFA’s question divides the elected officials of the Eurométropole. While regularly recorded peaks of nitrogen dioxide along its main roads, the city of Strasbourg took the lead by in September 2018 a restricted circulation area in its hypercentre, to prohibit access to most polluting delivery vehicles. In 2019, the municipality also filed the principle of a ZFE-M with a current calendar until 2025 for the prohibition of criterion vehicles.
At the same time, the agglomeration validated the principle of a ZFE-M extended to the entire territory, but without defining a precise calendar beyond the prohibition of vehicles criteria 5. A municipal election Later, the new President of the Eurométropole, Pia Imbs, first proposed a differentiated calendar between the hard core of the metropolis and the municipalities of its second crown, before changing against the sling of some elected officials, favorable to a single calendar maturing more distant than those envisaged by the city of Strasbourg.
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