The boss of the communists denounces a “social bomb which penalizes the poorest” and invites to “shift in time” this device.
The boss of the communists, Fabien Roussel, called on Monday to “go back» on low emission zones (ZFE) in large cities, after the relaxation already decided in Lyon. “It’s a social bomb because today there are ten million motorists who have vehicles “Crit’air” 3-4-5 who will be banned from moving“, was indignant on France Info the national secretary of the PCF, after having welcomed the decision of the metropolis of Lyon to “postpone for two years» its application. “We need a moratorium, we need to move these ZFEs, we need to shift them in time“, he added, inviting to “go backon this device which “penalizes the poorest“.
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“We need to be able to add the response to social emergencies and the response to climate emergencies, we need to put the wealth we have at the service of human development, at the service of ecology for all and not of a punitive ecology“, still insisted the chosen one. Fabien Roussel recommends at the same time to “allow the French to be able to buy inexpensive electric vehicles with a higher conversion premium” And “with vehicles at the locked price” and of “make public transport free“.
The EELV president of the Métropole de Lyon, Bruno Bernard, announced on February 14 “relaxation“of the timetable for the implementation of the agglomeration’s low-emissions zone and”the flatteningof its extension project, recognizing a “need for acceptance by as many people as possible, from the economic community to mayors and citizens“.
To date, eleven metropolises, the first of which were Lyon, Grenoble and Paris, have their ZFEs with different timetables. A generalization in France of these zones is provided for by law by 2025 in the 43 agglomerations of more than 150,000 inhabitants.
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