Clean Mobility: Support Measures and a Call for Community Engagement

Restricted traffic in the most polluted areas, support for cars and cleaner lorries: the government will unveil on Friday measures to green the mobility of the French, leaving also a large responsibility to the communities.

Transport is the first source of greenhouse gas emissions in France, not to mention the pollutants that are worth to France to have been sent by Brussels to the European justice for poor air quality in 14 areas, mainly cities. 19659002] And "the greenhouse gas emissions of the transport sector have not decreased in 2017", recently recalled the Minister of Transport Elisabeth Borne, while environmental badociations, like the WWF, claim " to review our approach to mobility, by moving less, better and otherwise "through" adequate measures and financial means. "

In the measures that Elisabeth Born e will present Friday with the Minister of ecological and solidarity transition, Nicolas Hulot, no revolution, but a desire to strengthen some existing devices – such as the bonus / penalty for the purchase of a new vehicle based on its CO2 emissions (with a malus threshold lowered again next year), support for electric vehicle charging stations and the purchase of heavy goods vehicles running on natural gas, hydrogen or electricity. [19659002] These measures are likely to disappoint NGOs, when Anne Lbadman-Trappier of France Nature Environnement was waiting for "scenarios of rupture."

The government wants above all to encourage the territories, which hold many competences in the field of transport, to make more. And especially the 14 where air pollution is the most important: the government wants to sign the return of commitments with them so that they put in place by 2020 low-emission areas (EPZ) to restrict it. circulation of the most polluting vehicles

This measure is in addition to the action plan for these zones (including Marseille-Aix, Nice, Lyon, or Strasbourg) that France submitted to Brussels last February. At the Ministry of Ecological Transition, we see a "signal" that France is doing what it takes to comply and avoid possible sanctions.

not yet a bicycle plan

Communities must define Geographical contours of these EPZs (core of the city center, extended perimeter, etc.), as well as the categories of vehicles that will be prohibited, on what time slot and from when.

The government undertakes to put in place the conditions (automatic control of plates, etc.) to make these areas viable, because if the communities can create since 2015, only Grenoble and Paris have taken the step , by restricting the circulation of diesel cars, for example.

Communities still to promote carpooling. The government is counting on them to set up reserved lanes, like what is experienced in the Hauts-de-Seine on the A86, and promises to create the framework for that.

The aim is to promote alternatives to individual mobility, because "greening existing transport will not be enough", to achieve the objectives of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants, argues the Ministry of the Environment. On the other hand, those who were expecting a big bike plan, like the NGOs and 200 parliamentarians who recently signed a forum to this end, will have to wait a little longer. It will be unveiled in September, before September 15, says the ministry.

"We can not wait all summer, we need to know where the ministers put the cursor on the bike" when budget arbitrations for next year are currently negotiated in the government, regretted Pierre WWF Cannet

Neither for the moment on the greening of the rail transport, because a mission on the subject is in progress, or on the air and the maritime, sectors on which France favors the discussions at the level world wide

20/07/2018 04:02:49 –
Paris, July 20, 2018 (AFP) –
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