In these cities, driving bans for diesel cars are now threatening
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Published on 02/27/2018 | Reading time: 4 minutes
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Diesel driving bans are possible
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It is a pioneering judgment: Cities can in principle impose driving bans on dirty diesel to make the air cleaner, judges the Federal Administrative Court. But it emphasizes the principle of proportionality.
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Individual cities and district governments can now impose driving bans on diesel cars. The measure was admissible, judged the judges of the Federal Administrative Court. Find out in which cities driving bans are threatening.
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Es is a pioneering judgment: cities have the right to impose driving bans on diesel cars for air pollution control. The Federal Administrative Court decided that. The defendant cities of Düsseldorf and Stuttgart would have to check their air quality plans for proportionality, the verdict was.
In the last instance, the judges in Leipzig had to check whether such bans are permissible in the fight against nitrogen oxide pollution in the air – even without a nationwide uniform regulation.
It is solely up to the individual cities and district governments whether there are driving bans – there is no automatism. It could take weeks or months from city to city before driving bans are actually included in the so-called air pollution control plans.
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For many years, pollutant limit values have not been observed in many cities. It is about nitrogen oxides that are considered harmful to health. According to the Federal Environment Agency, the transport sector, especially diesel cars, contributes around 60 percent of the burden.
The Federal Environment Agency collects and evaluates the data from over 500 measuring stations across Germany. Not all stations work fully automatically. The manually determined values are not yet available for 2017. The Office has therefore only given an estimate for some cities as to whether or not they comply with the limit value of 40 micrograms per cubic meter of air for nitrogen dioxide (NO) on an annual average.
Limit values are surely exceeded in these 37 cities:
– Munich (annual average 2016: 80, annual average 2017: 78)
– Stuttgart (82, 73)
– Cologne (63, 62)
– Reutlingen (66, 60)
– Hamburg (62, 58)
– Düsseldorf (58, 56)
– Kiel (65, 56)
– Heilbronn (57, 55)
– Darmstadt (55, 52)
– Ludwigsburg (53, 51)
– Dortmund (51, 50)
– Wiesbaden (53, 50)
– Berlin (52, 49)
– Freiburg im Breisgau (41, 49)
– Oberhausen (48, 49)
– Oldenburg (Oldb) (50, 49)
– Wuppertal (49, 49)
– Hagen (51, 48)
– Mainz (53, 48)
– Tübingen (48, 48)
– Frankfurt am Main (52, 47)
– Solingen (2017 new: 47)
– Aachen (49, 46)
– Gelsenkirchen (48, 46)
– Leverkusen (45, 46)
– Limburg a.d. Lahn (60, 45)
– Mannheim (46, 45)
– Augsburg (46, 44)
– Hanover (55, 44)
– Ludwigshafen am Rhein (46, 44)
– Osnabrück (48, 44)
– Halle (Saale) (46, 43)
– Leonberg (47, 43)
– Nuremberg (46, 43)
– casting (44, 42)
– food (51, 41)
– Regensburg (42, 41)
In these 29 cities, limit values are likely to be exceeded (no values for 2017 yet):
– Düren (annual mean 2016: 60)
– Backnang (56)
– Marbach am Neckar (55)
– Esslingen am Neckar (54)
– Offenbach am Main (51)
– Bochum (50)
– Paderborn (50)
– Bielefeld (49)
– Bonn (49)
– Herrenberg (49)
– Mühlacker (49)
– Ravensburg (49)
– victories (48)
– Huerth (47)
– Leinfelden (47)
– Echterdingen Pleidelsheim (47)
– Herne (45)
– Muelheim an der Ruhr (45)
– Neuss (45)
– Witten (45)
– Heidenheim an der Brenz (44)
– Hildesheim (44)
– Cake (44)
– Mönchengladbach (44)
– swords (44)
– Bensheim (43)
– Dinslaken (43)
– Hameln (43)
– Schwaebisch Gmuend (43)
In these ten cities, the limit values are safely undershot – there is no threat of a driving ban for the time being:
– Dresden (annual mean 2016: 45, annual mean 2017: 40
– Koblenz (43, 40)
– Leipzig (42, 40)
– Bremen (41, 39)
– Fulda (41, 39)
– Kassel (43, 39)
– Norderstedt (44, 39)
– Würzburg (42, 38)
– Marburg (47, 36)
– Potsdam (43, 34)
In these 15 cities, limit values are likely to be fallen below (no values for 2017 yet):
