Par Antonio Soudani
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When are the first fines? When will the first speed cameras be? The Low Emission Zone (ZFE), aimed at banning the most polluting vehicles, is gaining ground in the territory of the Lyonnais metropolis. Crit’Air 5s have been banned since September 2022 throughout the capital of Gaul.
No verbalization for the moment, the Metropolis would like to do pedagogy at first… but from January 2023 the first fines could be drawn up.
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“Controls are almost nil”
We asked Bruno Bernard, president of the Métropole de Lyon, in an exclusive interview. According to the Grand Lyon boss, “the controls are almost zero” in the ZFE set up since 2020, due to pollution peaks at first.
“I will ask the state services to carry out police checks and the municipalities concerned to record or bind the parking policies. The state will only do it sample checks“Warns elected environmentalist. The first checks should therefore start in January 2023.
“The challenge is therefore the installation of radars. Don’t put verbalizations, but change behavior. If there is no constraint, the government does not take charge of the policy imposed on us», says the man who wants to significantly reduce the presence of polluting vehicles in the metropolis.
First radars in 2025 instead of 2024?
On the preparation of speed cameras, Bruno Bernard does not mince words: “We are fooled by the State which announces different dates and which are postponed. He specifically calls into question the Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, Christophe Béchu.
Christophe Béchu announces mid-2024 for radars on the market, but I estimate that we will undoubtedly be in 2025. The state is forcing more than 40 agglomerations to build EPZs, to install radars and is not providing the means for effective control.
Speed cameras in 2025? On 29 September, Jean-Charles Kohlhaas announced that 60 new radars would be installed to carry out checks in the ZFE. The vice president in charge of travel at the Metropolis detailed in which sectors they will be implemented.
“There will be 24 new radars installed in the central perimeter of the ZFE and another 36 in the extended perimeter that we want to put in place,” he had slipped to us.
An EPZ that will soon be expanded
An extended perimeter? “On the geographical perimeter, we are in regulatory consultation until December 23rd. There is a central perimeter proposed and a wider extension with a staggered calendar that stops at Crit’Air 3. The consultation is ongoing and the mayors are expressing their views,” said Bruno Bernard.
It should be noted that the perimeter of the ZFE is expected to extend to new municipalities east of Lyon. Between 2023 and 2026, Greater Lyon is introducing a gradual ban on the circulation and parking of vehicles classified as Crit’Air 4, 3 and finally 2.
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