If Your Car Was Built Before 1997, You Won't Be Able To Drive In Paris

The French capital’s issues with pollution have been well documented, as have the city’s attempts to deal with it. A couple of years ago there was a bizarre experimental system coming into play where you’d only be allowed to drive on particular days based on the number your registration plate starts with, and there’s also been the creation of more pedestrian-only zones. But the latest move is the most drastic: starting 1 July, any cars registered before 1997 will be banned from the city centre on weekdays, along with motorbikes built before 1999.
Ignore the ban, and you’re looking at a €35 fine, rising to €78 at the start of 2017. The cars affected are thought to make up about 10 per cent of the capital’s cars, but given advances in emissions controls over the years, that could amount to a big reduction in smog. The measures are set to get a lot more drastic too: from 2020, Paris will ban any vehicle registered before 2010 from entering the city centre.
With pollution levels in Paris among the worst across Europe drastic measures are needed, but the move won’t be popular, particularly as it’ll penalise poorer motorists unable to afford a car new enough to escape the pre-1997 ban and the eventual pre-2010 ban.
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Just bought my first car a month ago(from 1987) and i’m litteraly crying
yay, car throttle, boo, paris
Pre-1999 scooters and mopeds are also not allowed. I bet the Parisians are more concerned with that than they are about cars.
one reason more not to visit Paris for me
People calm down. It’s only on Weekdays. You can still go to the track on the weekend
This is stupid. Looks like they don’t want poor people driving. This is just crapitalism.
In other words they’re banning half of the population of France to drive in paris…
Wow. France liked German occupation from 1940 to 1944 so much, they’re turning into them.
The fck? My 1988 TVR kicks out less sht than my step mums 2008 Renault Laguna….
French be like
Pagination