Toulouse: elected environmentalists request the one-year report of the ZFE
The elected environmentalists of the town hall of Toulouse and the Metropolis are asking for the one-year report of the ban planned for January 2024 on Crit’Air 3 vehicles, the time to introduce a series of aid measures.
The elected representatives of the environmental groups who sit in opposition to the town hall of Toulouse and to the Metropolis ask for the report of one of the next stage of the ZFE, the Low Emissions Zone which banishes the most polluting vehicles from Toulouse. Coming into force in March 2022, the ZFE applies since January 1 to Crit’Air 4 and 5 and non-classified private vehicles. A ban which, in the absence of systematic controls, remains theoretical but which arouses growing opposition.
On January 1, 2024, according to the planned schedule, Crit’Air 3 vehicles will in turn be banned. That is to say, gasoline from before 2005 and diesel from before 2010. This will represent a considerable number of motorists. It is this deadline for which the ecologists, this Wednesday, through the voice of Thomas Karmann, during a back-to-school press briefing, asked for the one-year report from the Metropolis, drawing inspiration there from the Lyon calendar.
To a “punitive ZFE”, Thomas Karmann is opposed to a “ZFE of solutions”. He proposes that the one-year period be used to put in place a series of measures: the possibility for everyone to have an appointment with a mobility adviser, a temporary derogation for low incomes, an effort on rates from Tisséo as well as on the subscription for those who give up the car, an increased metropolitan bicycle budget, an increase in premiums and, above all, “an emergency transport plan” before the arrival of the 3rd line.
In general, Antoine Maurice recognized the mayor of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Moudenc, a certain ecological conversion taken, according to him, under the pressure of the inhabitants. But a conversion not up to the stakes. “He is a pale copy of our projects.”
“It prospered on our actions before 2014 and our projects for 2020”, he launched, citing the municipal mutual insurance, the bicycle policy, the renovation of the rue de Metz and the oasis schoolyards. Antoine Maurice invited Jean-Luc Moudenc, on these subjects like others, to abandon “small steps” for “a coherent overall policy”.
“If it can show a balance sheet, it is because in 2008-2014 we laid the foundations”, underlined Isabelle Hardy, citing among other things the pedestrianization of the city center.