By 2025, the most polluting vehicles will have to be prohibited in the densest cities or already too exposed to car pollution. The elected officials concerned will submit proposals to the government on Tuesday to help them succeed in this transition.
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As the obligation for all cities with more than 150,000 inhabitants approaches to establish low -emission areas (ZFE), concern, even annoyance, grows among elected officials of the 43 territories concerned . Not that they question the merits of the device. Air pollution kills 47,000 people in France prematurely, according to the latest public health figures France. Gradually prevent, and by 2025, the circulation of the most polluting vehicles in the densest cities, or those already too exposed to fine particles and nitrogen dioxide, is a major public health issue.
But the support measures proposed by the State, such as the conversion bonus, are insufficient, deplore the mayors of major cities. Support for alternatives to the car, such as massive investment in the development of public transport, does not follow, they add.
It’s not the first time they say. So, since the Minister of Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu, and the Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, is suitable on Tuesday October 25 to have “direct dialogue” on the subject, they decided to be firmer, And to arrive with a list of concrete proposals. Because by dint of letting the file be bogged down, there is a risk, warns Jean-Luc Moudenc, the mayor (Les Républicains) of Toulouse and vice-president of the France Urban Association, which brings together the 22 metropolises and Other major cities: “that of a” yellow vests “phenomenon bis, a new confrontation between a social logic and an ecological logic”.
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eleven agglomerations, including the metropolises of Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Rouen, Montpellier, the cities of Nice, Marseille, did not wait for the deadline fixed by law to launch their ZFE. It was their return which made it possible to identify the blocking points. The first is linked to the insufficiency of aid paid to motorists who would like to change car. That of the State of the State “does not allow the acquisition of a new vehicle, including second -hand, for low or medium income”, note France urban.
Furthermore, the association insists that subsidies do not stop at the administrative limits of the ZFE, and extend to the living area. Otherwise, this amounts to excluding the inhabitants who live outside the center, sometimes by choice, sometimes because the land is too expensive, but who come to work and heal. On this last point, the elected officials also argue for an exceptional right of emission, to guarantee everyone access to care.
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