According to information from the “world”, Anne Hidalgo’s objective to prohibit the circulation of all diesel vehicles from 2024 will not be held. The town hall criticizes the “inaction” of the government.
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Take a completely out of diesel by 2024, for exemplary Olympic Games from an environmental point of view. It was one of the ambitions of the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, with the closure of the channels on banks to car traffic, to improve the quality of life of Parisians. If, after multiple legal adventures, it is now acquired that the docks of Seine will remain reserved for walkers, diesel vehicles will be able to continue rolling in the streets of the capital in 2024.
According to information from the world, the calendar of deployment of the low -emission zone (ZFE) aimed at leading to “zero diesel” at 1 er January 2024 cannot be held. “The town hall of Paris does not wish to postpone but the ZFE is now a matter of the competence of the metropolis,” says David Belliard, assistant in charge of transport. At the Metropolis of Grand Paris (MGP), we do not make a great mystery. “Unfortunately, the objective of release of diesel in 2024 will not be able to be held,” confirms his vice-president (Socialist Party) Daniel Guiraud, delegate for ecological transition and air quality.
Paris was the first city in France to acquire a ZFE, from 2015. It prohibits the circulation of the oldest vehicles during the week, between 8 am and 8 pm. The last stage of restriction dates back to June 2021: it concerns classified vehicles Crit’Air 4, or the diesels put into circulation before 2006. Since then, nothing.
The climate and resilience law of August 2021 transferred the prerogatives linked to the ZFE to the metropolises. Initially limited to intramural Paris, the ZFE has been extended to the perimeter delimited by the A86 motorway. Twice, the MGP has postponed the next step, namely the exclusion of Crit’Air 3 (diesels over eleven years and also the species before 2006). An important step, since it concerns 1.4 million vehicles registered in Ile-de-France, or double the number of vehicles now prohibited. Scheduled in July 2022, it was postponed in July 2023.
“By dint of delaying, we will fail”
To achieve the exclusion of all diesel vehicles, a final step was to be crossed on 1 er January 2024, with the prohibition of Crit’Air 2, which includes diesels registered after 2011 and the species registered between 2006 and 2011. “Just for the intra-A86 zone, this represents 1.3 million vehicles, it is an impossible quantitative jump”, explains Daniel Guiraud. For the vice-president of the MGP, it is not only the end of the diesel which is in danger, but the exit of the thermal by 2030: “By dint of delaying, we will fail.”
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