Some people in this thread most be going through tin foil like there is no tomorrow.
What cracks me up is the comments along the lines of ‘the French would never put up with this’.
News flash, there has been a low emission zone covering the whole of Paris for years and has far more restrictive requirements than the London ULEZ. There is no pay £12.50 to use your car, in Paris, you can’t even drive certain vehicles in the zone during peak periods.
They’ve also gone full ‘tax disk’ in that you have to buy an emissions category sticker for your car and display it or you’ll get fined and that’s how they control who can or can’t come into the zone. Oh and if you display someone else’s sticker you’ll get a fine too.
In France they now have low emission zones covering:
What cracks me up is the comments along the lines of ‘the French would never put up with this’.
News flash, there has been a low emission zone covering the whole of Paris for years and has far more restrictive requirements than the London ULEZ. There is no pay £12.50 to use your car, in Paris, you can’t even drive certain vehicles in the zone during peak periods.
They’ve also gone full ‘tax disk’ in that you have to buy an emissions category sticker for your car and display it or you’ll get fined and that’s how they control who can or can’t come into the zone. Oh and if you display someone else’s sticker you’ll get a fine too.
In France they now have low emission zones covering:
- Aix-Marseille-Provence region
- Bordeaux
- Clermont-Ferrand
- Grenoble
- Lille
- Lyon
- Montpellier
- Nice
- Paris
- Reims
- Strasbourg
- Toulouse