From 2026, diesel vehicles will be totally banned from the entire metropolis of Lyon, as part of the extension of the ZFE.
This is news that shouldn’t make everyone happy. In recent years, large cities have embarked on a real hunt for CO2 which has been intensifying for several months. First Paris, then the main French agglomerations, which seek by all means to ban the thermal car from their streets. This should notably go through the EPZs, these areas where traffic is restricted and limited to vehicles deemed to be less polluting, thanks to the principle of the Crit’Air sticker, which continues to harden over the years. In the line of sight, vehicles running on diesel, now the target to be shot down by the government, and particularly targeted by the city councilors of large cities. In Paris, this type of fuel will therefore be completely prohibited from 2024, while the next step in Anne Hidalgo’s vast plan against the car will first be the ban on vehicles with the Crit’Air 3 sticker.
But the other big cities are not left out. This is particularly the case of the Lyon metropolis, which also tightened the screw by becoming an EPZ on January 1, 2020. Since that date, all vehicles with a Crit’Air 4 or 5 sticker can no longer circulate in the city, as well as in its close periphery. But the City of Lights, now headed by Grégory Doucet (EELV), wishes to go even further. Its ambition: to ban all vehicles running on diesel from the entire metropolis by 2026. Concretely, and as pointed out by our colleagues from France 3 Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, this means that three vehicles out of four will be excluded from this zone, which also includes certain sectors of the municipalities of Villeurbanne, Bron and Vénissieux, as well as all of Caluire-et-Cuire. At maturity, only vehicles Crit’Air 1 and 0 will therefore be admitted, ie gasoline, hybrid and electric.
A referendum refused
Would the situation have been different if this measure had been subject to a referendum ? Probably. However, if this solution had been considered for a while, it was finally rejected following a vote, with 67 votes in favor against 68 against. A refusal that makes sense for Yasmine Bouagga, metropolitan councilor Les Ecologistes Grand Lyon Métropole, who emphasizes that ” we cannot ask residents to vote “for or against” a device that responds to a health disaster causes tens of thousands of premature deaths per year “. No referendum, therefore, but a vast public consultation that will take place over five months, until February 5, 2022. The goal? Consider how this measure will be applied, ” so that this EPZ does not become a “High Exclusion Zone” “, As the group Inventing the metropolis of tomorrow asserts, at the origin of the referendum proposal. Led by Gérard Collomb, he regrets that “ we felt that several groups of the majority were ill at ease beyond the remarks made so as not to take the risk of angering the majority EELV and the choices of the greens which are imposed on them. This uneasiness was clearly shown in the result of the vote ».
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From 2026, diesel vehicles will be totally banned from the entire metropolis of Lyon, as part of the extension of the ZFE.
This is news that shouldn’t make everyone happy. In recent years, large cities have embarked on a real hunt for CO2 which has been intensifying for several months. First Paris, then the main French agglomerations, which seek by all means to ban the thermal car from their streets. This should notably go through the EPZs, these areas where traffic is restricted and limited to vehicles deemed to be less polluting, thanks to the principle of the Crit’Air sticker, which continues to harden over the years. In the line of sight, vehicles running on diesel, now the target to be shot down by the government, and particularly targeted by the city councilors of large cities. In Paris, this type of fuel will therefore be completely prohibited from 2024, while the next step in Anne Hidalgo’s vast plan against the car will first be the ban on vehicles with the Crit’Air 3 sticker.
But the other big cities are not left out. This is particularly the case of the Lyon metropolis, which also tightened the screw by becoming an EPZ on January 1, 2020. Since that date, all vehicles with a Crit’Air 4 or 5 sticker can no longer circulate in the city, as well as in its close periphery. But the City of Lights, now headed by Grégory Doucet (EELV), wishes to go even further. Its ambition: to ban all vehicles running on diesel from the entire metropolis by 2026. Concretely, and as pointed out by our colleagues from France 3 Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, this means that three vehicles out of four will be excluded from this zone, which also includes certain sectors of the municipalities of Villeurbanne, Bron and Vénissieux, as well as all of Caluire-et-Cuire. At maturity, only vehicles Crit’Air 1 and 0 will therefore be admitted, ie gasoline, hybrid and electric.
A referendum refused
Would the situation have been different if this measure had been subject to a referendum ? Probably. However, if this solution had been considered for a while, it was finally rejected following a vote, with 67 votes in favor against 68 against. A refusal that makes sense for Yasmine Bouagga, metropolitan councilor Les Ecologistes Grand Lyon Métropole, who emphasizes that ” we cannot ask residents to vote “for or against” a device that responds to a health disaster causes tens of thousands of premature deaths per year “. No referendum, therefore, but a vast public consultation that will take place over five months, until February 5, 2022. The goal? Consider how this measure will be applied, ” so that this EPZ does not become a “High Exclusion Zone” “, As the group Inventing the metropolis of tomorrow asserts, at the origin of the referendum proposal. Led by Gérard Collomb, he regrets that “ we felt that several groups of the majority were ill at ease beyond the remarks made so as not to take the risk of angering the majority EELV and the choices of the greens which are imposed on them. This uneasiness was clearly shown in the result of the vote ».
Also read on Auto-Moto.com:
ZFE: will CO2 emissions soon be taken into account?
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