The
Madrid City Council
hopes to
raise
258.4 million
euros in fines in five years thanks to new low emission zones which will
replace Madrid Central. This is included in the economic memory of the
Sustainable Mobility Ordinance
that comes into force on Wednesday. And so Vox denounced it yesterday in the City
Council's Environment Commission
. When adding the
180 million expenses
that the implementation of the new restrictions will generate, the total cost of the restricted areas will amount to
458 million
euros in five years. That is, it will cost an average of
136 euros to each Madrilenian
.
Specifically, the government team led by José Luis Martínez-Almeida plans to enter 229.2 million for penalties for improperly entering the
Centro district
from today until 2025, about 45.84 million euros per year. Due to the entry of vehicles without a tag to the different areas that will come into force from year to year, the Consistory expects to enter 21.58 million.
Finally, much smaller
fines in the area of
Plaza Elíptica
, will only allow you to enter 268,000 euros, 67,000 each year.
As the municipal spokesperson for
Vox
Mobility
,
Fernando Martínez Vidal
,
denounced this Monday
, "perpetuating the
Central Madrid
of
Manuela Carmena is
going to be very expensive" for the people of Madrid.
For this reason and in his opinion, he asserted that "the objective of the City Council, more than environmental, is collection."
The delegate for the Environment and Mobility,
Borja Carabante
, however, flatly denied that his objective is "sanctioning", but rather "complying with the European directive on air quality."
As stated by the councilor of the government team, "it would be more expensive to breach European regulations."
For Madrid residents, the new traffic restriction zones will cost 180 million euros directly from their taxes. The same economic report details that the expansion of
the Regulated Parking Service
(SER) -which the Mobility delegate announced in his interview with this newspaper- will cost 83.9 million, the subsidies to improve air quality will amount to 67.5 million and access control to prevent the entry of the most polluting cars, 14.4 million.
The expenditure on access controls to the
Center
will be less, because the cameras that already worked with Madrid Central will be used, even so, the Consistory expects to spend six million euros on them and 1.9 million on the controls of Plaza Elíptica, the new special protection zone that will come into force in December and in which the most polluting cars, those that do not have a label, will be prevented from entering.
Sources of the Consistory insist that the desire of the City Council is not a collection.
The sanctions will continue the same as when Madrid Central was in force.
In addition, and during the two months of testing the cameras and the new controls, there will be no special patrols of the
Municipal Police
in search of offenders, as Carabante said last week.
In the same Environment Commission, the Mobility delegate responded to Vox that if the Government team "has not finished with Central Madrid" it is "because we cannot go back two decades", which is what would have happened, in his opinion, to become final the sentence that demolishes Central Madrid without alternative.
In addition, Borja Carabante added that the
Climate Change Law
approved by Congress obliges the City Council to establish low-emission zones.
And what the current team has done is "make the prohibitions more flexible" especially for merchants in the area, who were among the most affected groups.
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