The day Friday should eventually be the most polluted of the week in the Ile-de-France. Given the gravity of the situation, the City of Paris has reformulated its request for an alternate traffic plan for Saturday.
• Friday pollution level revised upwards
While a simple exceedance of the information threshold was initially expected on Friday, the alert level to fine particle pollution should again exceeded, according Airparif, the body responsible for monitoring the air quality in the Ile-de-France, which has revised upwards its forecast. Thursday, the state has refused the request of the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, introduce alternating traffic in the capital on Friday 20 March. If the speed limit reduction measures were taken, the municipality of Paris today reiterated its call for the day Saturday, and also invited its people to adopt behaviors adapted to this peak pollution.
• Vive altercation between Royal and Duflot
On Twitter, the Minister for Ecology, Segolene Royal, said the alternating traffic could be put in place Monday “if the peak continues pollution” . On the social network, it also had a skirmish with the former Minister of Ecology, Cécile Duflot, who found it “appalling” that the alternating traffic is not in place.
At the same time, the national secretary of Europe Ecologie Les Verts, Emmanuelle Cosse, participated in a rally outside the Ministry of Ecology asking for “emergency measures against the peak of pollution.”
For its part, the police headquarters had opened the door to the possibility of emergency measures in a statement Thursday saying that “if the situation were to deteriorate or continue, the Commissioner of Police will (it) appeals from Monday (…) to alternating traffic for vehicles. ” A decision challenged by the spokesman of EELV, Julien Bayou. “There is no good reason to wait an additional 48 hours,” he responded, suspecting the government to procrastinate because of the “proximity of departmental” even as President François Hollande Friday interfered in the debate from Brussels, saying that decisions about alternating traffic would be taken “at the end of the afternoon.”
• Registrations pairs even days, and vice versa
The alternating traffic had been established March 17, 2014, while it had not been established since 1997 in Paris. The measure had been a “visible impact” according Airparif, which found “a real reduction of exposure to particles and an even stronger decrease in exposure to nitrogen dioxide,” although However, experts remain divided on the effectiveness of the system.
This exceptional measure provides for light vehicles (cars, scooters and motorbikes) at odd registrations run on odd days, even days the pairs registrations and applies to Paris and 22 municipalities of the suburbs: Montrouge, Malakoff, Vanves, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Boulogne-Billancourt, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Levallois-Perret and Clichy in in Hauts-de-Seine (92) ; Saint-Ouen, Pantin, Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, Les Lilas, Bagnolet, Montreuil, Aubervilliers and Saint-Denis in Seine-Saint-Denis (93); Vincennes, Saint-Mande, Charenton le-Pont, Ivry-sur-Seine, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre and Gentilly in the Val-de-Marne (94).
In addition, regardless of registration, the Exceptions are provided for Vehicles “virtuous” (electric, hybrid, gas-powered) and cars carrying at least three people (considered as providing carpool, which users Road are encouraged to use) the vehicles with public service missions , vehicles loaded with supplies to populations , transport vehicles common , taxis, driving school vehicles. Vehicles and construction machines , troubleshooting, removal, cleaning, garbage trucks, fund transportation, newspapers, mail, bus or subway drivers can use their cars and regardless its registration is to get to their work, as well as sales representatives and journalists. Finally, vans and commercial vehicles of less than 3.5 tonnes and vehicles registered abroad are also allowed to circulate.
Any breach of these measures is liable to a contravention 2nd Class (fine of 22, 35 or 75 euros), along with a vehicle immobilizer measure and possibly impoundment.
• Free public transport
As compensation, the implementation of the alternating traffic is correlative to free public transport (metro, bus, tram, train) in the area and for the relevant period. On Friday, the president of the Ile-de-France region has already said in a statement that public transport would be free in the Ile-de-France on Saturday.
Further details can be obtained www.prefecturedepolice.fr on the site and at number 0811 000 675 .
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