The situation is explosive. After a “discussion between all the groups” in progress, the Métropole du Grand Paris (MGP) “will act on the postponement in June during a metropolitan council”, said Tuesday Geoffroy Boulard, also mayor (LR) of the 17th arrondissement. from Paris. The MGP “believes that the schedule is not tenable”, said Mr. Boulard. “The ban on Crit’air 3 (diesel before 2011, gasoline before 2006), in any event, will take place after the Games”, specified this vice-president of the MGP, of the same political side as the president Patrick Ollier, referring to the “end of 2024, beginning of 2025” deadline.
The ban on circulation, from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., of cars displaying a Crit’air 3 sticker in Paris and its inner suburbs has already been postponed for the first time from July 2022 to July 2023. This new phase of he ban, the third after those on unclassified vehicles and Crit’air 5 (July 2019), then Crit’air 4 (June 2021), concerns 380,000 cars, “including nearly one in two in certain municipalities located in the Seine -Saint-Denis,” says Mr. Boulard.
The topic is politically hot, especially in this time of inflation, due to vehicle replacement costs. “The zero-rate loan is still not guaranteed by the State”, which has also not provided an answer to the metropolis on the “implementation of automatic control”, adds Mr. Boulard, aware that the MGP stands on a “crest line between a virtuous policy” from an environmental point of view and its “social acceptability”.
The LR president of the Île-de-France region Valérie Pécresse has positioned herself in favor of a new postponement of 18 months, for individuals only, while the PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, who has promised the end of diesel in 2024 in the capital, wants the calendar to be maintained and asks Emmanuel Macron to “take responsibility”. To date, 11 metropolises have their ZFE, with different schedules. But in February, the Métropole de Lyon announced the “relaxation” of its timetable and the “overhaul” of its extension project.