not automatic, the fines fall
The system of automatic controls by surveillance cameras to ensure compliance with the measures of the Low Emission Zone (ZFE) in Toulouse will not see the light of day until 2024, but in the field, the police can already distribute amended.
Since January 1, 2023, thedriving ban in the Low Emission Zone (ZFE) of Toulouse extends to all vehicles displaying a Crit’Air 4, 5 or unclassified sticker. Until then, this measure only concerned utility vehicles and heavy goods vehicles included in these same categories.
Ultimately, the goal is to limiting the passage of the most polluting vehicles in the zone of the ZFE, which encompasses the entire area of Toulouse inside the ring road, as well as a small part of Colomiers and Tournefeuille, to the West. The next date to remember: January 1, 2024. From this deadline, only vehicles with a Crit’air sticker 0, 1 or 2 will circulate in the ZFE.
Are motorists considering a fine?
For the time being, the control officers have one watchword: pedagogy. The objective of the police is above all to explain the procedure to be followed to passing motorists. But they are also not immune to receiving a ticket. Indeed, according to the words of the prefecture reported in the columns of the Dispatch from the Southsome dozens of offenses already been verbalized since the entry into force of the ZFE in Toulouse on March 1, 2022.
What fines in the Toulouse ZFE?
The police must therefore ensure that the vehicles are equipped with a Crit’air sticker, and above all, that It matches the vehicle well.. No need therefore to display a Crit’air 2 on a car from the 2000s. In the event of driving or parking with a prohibited sticker, or without a sticker, the owners of the vehicles are liable to a fine of 68 euros for light vehicles, vans, vans and 135 euros for heavyweights.
Automatic controls for 2024
If for the time being the fines are not automatic, they will become so next year. Toulouse Metropolis provide for the installation ofsixty cameras in the city. The latter will take care of reading the license plates and independently checking whether or not the vehicle is entitled to drive in the low-emission zone. The rollers obtained favorable will obviously not be punished.
How do I get a Crit’air vignette or a “ZFE Pass”?
Motorists or motorcyclists must go to the site of the Ministry of Ecological Transition to order a Crit’air sticker. For a vehicle registered in France, the price is 3.70 euros. For a vehicle registered abroad, it is 4.51 euros. The macaroons are then sent by post and must be glued on the front windshield cars.
The Metropolis also announced that the “small riders pass”, otherwise known as “ZFE pass” will be available from end of january. They allow Crit’air 4 or 5 vehicles, which drive little, to circle 52 days a year within the perimeter of the ZFE, i.e. approximately once a week. To benefit from it, the motorist will have to make the request in a dedicated tab, soon available on the Metropolis website. And this, Everytime that he wishes to drive, at least 24 hours in advance. Then the authorization received by email must be printed and affixed to the dashboard of the vehicle.