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  • A deliberation providing for the extension of the ZFE will be presented on Monday during the metropolitan council to fight against pollution.

  • It provides for the eviction of all vehicles with the Crit'Air 5 sticker and not classified from 2022 on the ZFE perimeter, and the gradual eviction of vehicles classified 2 and + by 2026.

  • A subject that should be debated in the assembly, where the opposition is worried about the consequences of these measures on the population.

The days of diesel vehicles are numbered in the Lyon metropolitan area.

Monday, the executive of the metropolis must present in council a deliberation on the extension of the current Low Emission Zone (ZFE), which will concern from 2022 private vehicles hitherto not affected by the restrictions in force. .

Today, with a few exceptions, only commercial vehicles and heavy goods vehicles equipped with a Crit'Air 3, 4 and 5 sticker are permanently prohibited from driving and parking on the perimeter of the ZFE, i.e. most of the territories. from Lyon, Villeurbanne, Caluire and the areas of Bron and Vénissieux located inside the ring road.

Crit'Air 2 vehicles and more in the viewfinder

The deliberation that will be submitted to metropolitan councilors, presented this Friday by the environmental president of the metropolis Bruno Bernard, plans to go much further and quickly to exclude polluting vehicles from the agglomeration.

It thus acts on three principles.

The reinforcement of the ZFE, the eviction from this zone of all Crit'Air 5 vehicles from 2022. And "an exit of diesel by 2026 on the central part of the ZFE", underlined Bruno Bernard.

From 2023 and until the end of his mandate, the elected representative planned to exclude polluting vehicles from a large part of the metropolis, that is to say old gasoline cars and diesels classified Crit ' Air 2, 3, 4 and 5.

A ban on driving and parking which now affects more than 70% of vehicles in circulation, according to government figures.

As of January 1, 2020, 76% of the city's vehicle fleet had a Crit'Air 2 badge or more.

“The vehicle fleet is changing rapidly,” assures the EELV vice-president of the Metropolis, Jean-Charles Kohlhaas, in charge of travel and intermodality.

In 2019, there were 46,000 Crit'Air 5 and unclassified.

In 2020, they were only 28,000.

Crit'Air 2 and more represent between 250,000 and 300,000 vehicles out of a total fleet of 600,000, ”he says, counting on the measures announced to gradually reduce the share of polluting vehicles.

“By announcing the extension of the ZFE upstream, we think we can act on natural renewal and the 6 to 7% of people who change cars each year.

People need to stop buying diesel, hence the signal we are sending with this deliberation presented on Monday.

If the framework and the objectives of the future EPZ are fixed, many points still remain to be determined.

"The perimeter, the application criteria, the exemptions, the accompanying measures ... We give ourselves the year to find, within the framework of the debate with the elected officials and the citizens, solutions", specified this Friday Bruno Bernard .

A heated debate

This one-year consultation, intended to “co-construct” the future ZFE according to the metropolis, must include the mayors of the agglomeration, the population and professional organizations.

The national commission for public debate should be invited to participate in order to "guarantee the neutrality of this consultation", specifies Jean-Charles Kohlhaass, convinced that the success of the ZFE will require a change of culture.

“We have become addicted to the car.

In the metropolis, 60% of trips of less than 3 km are made by car.

We have to get out of this addiction and support people, ”he emphasizes.

Support for households which should be discussed a lot Monday during the metropolitan council and then during the consultation, the opposition accusing Bruno Bernard of wanting to pass in force on this file, to the detriment of the most fragile households.

"These are anti-social measures," denounces the group Rassemblement de la Right, Center et de la Société Civile.

They will force more than 300,000 owners to change their vehicle within a short period of time and for the most modest, who will not have the financial capacity, to give up the use of their car […] The real desire is to drastically reduce the number of cars especially in the hypercentre and to prevent the inhabitants of the periphery from going there by car by calling into question the fundamental freedom to come and go: "everyone at home", this is the real credo of this majority!

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On this subject which it knows well, the group of Progressives, led by the former president of the metropolis David Kimelfeld (who created the ZFE), plans to table an amendment.

“If we share the imperative need to reduce pollution, we cannot accept a measure which will strike the most modest without support, agents and employees of the metropolitan territory who work every day on the targeted perimeter and who do not necessarily have to alternative to the private car, he worries.

Our group will therefore propose an amendment so that the deliberation clearly indicates that the strengthening of the ZFE will be accompanied by financial aid to limit the impact on the purchasing power of households.

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