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More and more green zones in France
In November alone, 6 new French green zones were introduced: Toulouse, Haute-Savoie, Savoie, Maine-et-Loire, Vendée and Gers.
ZPA and ZCR zones have been created by the French Government in order to reduce pollutants. In many cases motorists and tourist buses will have to purchase ‘Vignettes’
Winter is the season of air pollution peaks, consequently French local governments have introduced new environmental zones. Toulouse, the industrial capital of south-western France, took the first step by publishing a prefectural order with immediate effect after a prolonged air pollution peak.
At the same time, environmental zones were introduced in the great areas of Haute-Savoie – Annecy, Maine-et-Loire – Angers, Savoie – Chambery, Vendée – La Roche-sur-Yon and Gers-Auch.
In these departments, prefectural orders authorising the introduction of environmental zones were published, affecting the entire department, and, in some cases, hundreds of cities and municipalities.
These are temporary ZPA zones, which come into force in the event of particularly heavy air pollution, as it occurs more frequently in these regions.
Unlike permanent ZCR zones, traffic restrictions are only applied here if the values for air pollution exceed the specifications of the EU limit values.
In these new, large-scale ZPA environmental zones, the respective Prefect can declare at any time an air pollution alarm, who then individually determines in which city or municipality within the department a partial or limited traffic restriction is imposed.
Get more information: On the https://www.crit-air.fr/en.html website you will find all information about the new environmental zones, the current state of daily circulation and the interactive maps showing possible alternative routes.
The free Green-Zones app is also useful as it guides the tourist and the commercial and bus traffic through the increasingly complex jungle of local individual regulations.
Valere Tjolle
@ValereTjolle
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