Prohibited but not every day. If diesel and utility cars registered before 2011 and gasoline cars before 2006 will be prohibited from circulating in the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) of Greater Paris starting this Wednesday, January 1, the latter will be able to deviate from the restrictions 24 days a year. year.
Authorized for more than a third of the year.
These “ZFE passes,” as Patrick Ollier, president of the Greater Paris Metropolis, called them in Le Parisien in mid-December, will allow travel “during the day on weekdays without the risk of being fined.” An exemption that is also offered to other excluded Crit’Air (without Crit’Air, Crit’Air 4 and 5).
“At the beginning of January a platform will be created to request the 3-year pass,” Patrick Ollier specified then.
By adding weekends, where these Crit’Air 3 vehicles will continue to have the right to circulate, like all vehicles already prohibited (without Crit’Air, Crit’Air 4 and 5), the prohibited Crit’Air 3 will be able to continue circulating 139 days of the 365 in the Great Metropolis of Paris. That’s more than a third of the year.
There is no fine this year.
The Greater Paris Metropolis will also not apply any financial sanctions this year. The automated controls, whose implementation corresponds to the State, will not be carried out until 2026. Enough to reassure (a little) the million motorists recently affected by this ban.
According to the figures provided to us by the data specialist AAA Data, Crit’Air 3 cars represent 18% of the rolling stock in Ile-de-France, that is, just over 1.12 million vehicles.
If we add these vehicles to those already banned (without Crit’Air, Crit’Air 4 and 5), a total of 1.58 million vehicles are affected by the ban.
Source: BFM TV
