• Mobility Goods vehicles with environmental classification B will be able to access the Center in 2023

From

January 2023

, all

cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants

(and those with more than 20,000 with special pollution problems) will be required, by law, to have a

Low Emission Zone

(

ZBE

).

In them, the municipalities may establish the

restrictions

they deem appropriate in order to improve air quality.

In total, these cities accumulate a park of 11 million cars, of which a good part will be subject to

prohibitions to circulate or park

.

Everything indicates that the focus will be on

cars without an environmental label

(although

they are also called with an A label

).

That is, up to

four million cars

(of the 11 million mentioned) that were

registered before the year 2000 if they have a gasoline engine;

or before 2006 in the case of diesel models.

For example, the city of

Madrid

no longer allows them to circulate inside the

M30

;

in

2023 they will not be able to use this road either

, for a year later they will be

expelled from all the streets of the city

.

In 2025, the lack that has been given to

vehicles without a label

that are

registered in the capital

will also end ;

and motorcycles, trucks and vans that, until then, will not have any type of restriction.

Also possibility of tolls

However, the case of

Madrid

(or the ZBE of

Barcelona

) does not have to be replicated by the rest.

In fact,

in another city it can be decided that the restrictions also affect vehicles with B, C or Eco labels, to a greater or lesser extent.

Or establish an access toll to those areas,

in which you pay based on what contaminates the car.

There is only one confirmed exception: historic vehicles.

These are those that were registered or manufactured more than 30 years ago and, as long as they have been declared as such, they can be used in LEZs.

But only occasionally, never as a regular means of transportation.

In fact, in the guide that the Government has prepared to guide municipalities in the application of the ZBE, the signs that identify them are proposed, as well as how to develop them (in the form of rings or zones separated from each other, so that there are several ZBEs). ;

its extension and there is also talk that the DGT labels can be a good tool to manage traffic.

But it is not forced to do so and opens the door to the aforementioned tolls.

Moreover,

the text states that "the access and circulation criteria must be aimed at discouraging as much as possible the access of private motorized vehicles in general, regardless of the environmental badge it holds."

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Only in 20 of 149 cases

It remains to be seen, then, what criteria each city will apply, also knowing that most of them will not arrive in time to start their ZBE in 2023. According to an investigation carried out by the newspaper 'El País',

only 20 of the cities will be ready. 149 previews.

And six of them already had them running before the Climate Change Law that contemplates them was approved.

These are Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Pamplona, ​​L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Sant Cugat and Cornellà de Llobregat.

Rivas and Pontevedra from Madrid have just activated theirs and Seville, Córdoba, Fuenlabrada, Burgos, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Parla, Algeciras, Alcobendas, Melilla, Talavera de la Reina, Coslada and Ciudad Real, affirm that they are in the process of activating it before the end of the year.

The most affected cities

In the event that the restrictions are applied according to the labeling of the DGT, the

Canary Islands will be the most affected area, since it has the large populations with the highest percentage of cars without a label,

according to the Sumauto portal: Santa Cruz de Tenerife (44, 1%), Arrecife (43.7%), San Cristóbal de La Laguna (43.4%) and Arona (41.7%).

Ourense (Galicia) appears next with 41.7% and both Ponferrada and León capital share 39.6%.

Meanwhile,

Alcobendas (9.9%), Boadilla del Monte (11.6%) and Rivas Vaciamadrid (18.3%), located in the Community of Madrid, are the cities least affected by ZBE restrictions.

Outside the capital, there are San Fernando (20.5%) or El Puerto de Santa María (23.2%), municipalities of Cádiz.

According to Ignacio García Rojí, spokesman for Sumauto, this would lead us "towards a discriminatory 'two-energy' mobility in which circulation is restricted to a part of the population with fewer resources and the ability to adapt to the new mechanical paradigms imposed On the one hand, large cities with electrified vehicles to be able to circulate without problems and, on the other, small cities and rural areas with polluting and unsafe vehicles that are over 20 years old, but with the advantage of not having their circulation restricted."

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