Environmentalists are growing more repression against motorists – photos © Lyon People
Text: Morgan Couturier – While the examination of a possible abolition of the ZFE was again postponed to the National Assembly, sixty departmental and regional elected officials have nevertheless signed A forum against the project. For the latter, the application of the ZFE would create “an offense of poverty”.
The news is not about to brighten up the daily lives of Rhodanian motorists, but beyond the traditional traffic jams of which they are victims, the latter are also likely to muddy against the parliamentary traffic jams of the National Assembly.
Indeed, while the subject of a possible deletion of the ZFE project (low -emission zones) was to be discussed this Tuesday, the examination of the text was again postponed. According to our colleagues from Figarothe Bourbon Palace would crumble under the files, to the point of postponing the debate of the application or not, of the ZFE, on a later date.
And for good reason, if opponents, including Laurent Wauquiezhad managed to flex François Bayrouthe Minister of Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher had, she had deposited an amendment to leave “the leaders of agglomerations of at least 150,000 inhabitants” the freedom to establish these famous ZFEs.
By 2027, 500,000 vehicles could be excluded from traffic in Greater Lyon
A derogation that would delight environmentalists, Bruno Bernard et Grégory Doucetpublicly attached to this project. Faced with this threat, the Lyon, departmental and regional right has therefore decided to take the lead and mobilize, at the initiative of Bastien Jointmunicipal councilor in the city of Caluire and cook.
In its wake, around sixty elected officials, including the president of the region, Fabrior Pancrockershis counterpart in the Rhône department, Christophe Guilloteau or the senator Etienne Blanctook care to regroup behind a platform published by the Sunday newspaperin which the latter refute the implementation of these ZFEs, symbols according to them, of the “drift of elected environmentalists, disconnected from the realities on the ground”.
“By imposing the application of this rule and its brutal restrictions, they turn their back on the French who live, work and move outside the major metropolises, instead of protecting them. Desputing those who have no choice but to ride to simply live decently, ecologists of the Metropolis of Lyon impose unsuitable standards which first penalize the most modest, without offering credible alternative solutions, “we can read.
Udoes not new anti -social measure while air quality is already improving without the application of ZFEs
Without admitting defeated, these elected officials thus promise to “act without waiting”, while by the end of 2027, these ZFEs “could exclude 500,000 traffic vehicles, just in the Metropolis of Lyon”. “This consists in saying to the most precarious that we no longer want them in our big cities. It is neither more nor less the creation of a crime of poverty ”, they still write, arguing in return the success of the protection plan of the atmosphere of Greater Lyon.
“The quality of the air has really improved and continuously in the past 15 years. Is it because of the ZFE? No ! These did not exist and there is no means of coercion today since their implementation; This very clearly excludes the thesis that their effectiveness is demonstrated. Moreover, there is in reality, no serious impact study, ”point out the signatories.
Without waiting for the decision of the National Assembly, they therefore invite “the inhabitants of our region, our departments and the great Lyonnais to mobilize to refuse these areas of strong exclusion”. With in conclusion, a will: “Act positively to improve the quality of our air by stopping bumping on the middle class”!
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