"It's a social bomb because today there are ten million motorists who have Crit'air 3 4 5 vehicles who will be banned from moving around", the national secretary of the PCF after having welcomed the decision of the metropolis of Lyon to "postpone for two years" its application.
“We need a moratorium, we have to move these ZFEs, we have to shift them in time”, he added, inviting us to “go back” on this device which “penalizes the poorest”.
A policeman scans a Crit'Air sticker on the windshield of a vehicle on June 27, 2019 in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon © JEAN-PIERRE CLATOT / AFP/Archives
"We need to be able to add the response to social emergencies and the response to climate emergencies, we need to put the wealth we have at the service of human development, at the service of ecology for all and not of a punitive ecology “, he insisted.
Mr. Roussel recommends at the same time to "allow the French to be able to buy cheap electric vehicles with a higher conversion premium" and "with vehicles at the blocked price" and to "make public transport free".
The EELV president of the Metropolis of Lyon Bruno Bernard announced on February 14 "the relaxation" of the timetable for the implementation of the low emission zone of the agglomeration and "the overhaul" of its extension project , recognizing a "need for the acceptability of the greatest number, from the economic community to mayors and citizens".
Low emission zones © Jean-Michel CORNU / AFP/Archives
To date, eleven metropolises, the first of which were Lyon, Grenoble and Paris, have their ZFEs with different timetables.
A generalization in France of these zones is provided for by law by 2025 in the 43 agglomerations of more than 150,000 inhabitants.
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