End of the world against end of the month: in Greater Lyon, the fight against air pollution put to the test by social inequalities
Between Mélanie and the ring road, the story has been going on for four years already. Four years of back and forth, from her apartment in Saint-Fons, south of Lyon, to the Villeurbanne supermarket where she works, in the La Doua district. By force, she ended up knowing the smallest portions of it: the ramp that clogs up every morning, the exit to save a few precious minutes, the eye on the clock to arrive on time at work. “When things are going well, I count twenty-five minutes. But sometimes it can take double! “says the young woman of 26 years.
In this daily adventure, Mélanie can count on “Ginette”, an old Renault diesel immaculate in 1999, inherited from her grandmother. Admittedly, the old clunker makes “odd noises” and the gearbox coincides a bit. No matter: “It does the job”, as she says. But Ginette will soon no longer be welcome in the center of the Lyon metropolis.
Getting 350,000 vehicles out of Greater Lyon
From September 2022, vehicles classified as Crit’Air 5 or unclassified, i.e. registered before the year 2000, will be banned from driving within the central perimeter of the Low Emission Zone (ZFE), roughly modo inside the device. A flagship measure to combat air pollution, the cause of nearly 1,500 deaths per year in the Metropolis of Lyon.
The device is an application of a law passed in 2019
A national system
The LOM law of 2019. . .