In 2024, vehicles with a Crit’air sticker greater than 2 will not be able to enter inner Toulouse and part of its close suburbs. A ban that will be “accompanied by helpers”according to the Metropolis.
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After Greater Paris, Lyon and Grenoble, Toulouse will limit the circulation of polluting vehicles. Toulouse Métropole announced, on Wednesday February 2, the establishment of a low-emissions zone (ZFE) from March 2022, to limit air pollution and its consequences on health.
The community has presented a timetable for the gradual banning of the most polluting vehicles for inner Toulouse and a part of the near suburbs. In March 2022, professional vehicles with a Crit’air 5 or unclassified sticker will be affected. Heavy goods vehicles and commercial vehicles certified Crit’air 4 or more will be added in September, then two-wheelers with a Crit’air 4 sticker or more in 2023. In 2024, only vehicles with a Crit’air sticker air 0, 1 and 2 will be able to circulate in this zone, “unless derogation in force”specifies the Metropolis.
The system must be extended to all French agglomerations of more than 150,000 inhabitants by 2025, according to the Climate and Resilience Law. In Toulouse, the ban “will be applied gradually, accompanied by aid (…) to allow everyone to adapt”added the Metropolis in a press release.
This ZFE is far from unanimous in the Pink City: in November, hundreds of bikers and motorists demonstrated on the ring road to denounce a “punitive ecology” which will mainly weigh on the most modest, as reported by France 3 Occitanie. Jean-Luc Moudenc, Mayor of Toulouse and President of Toulouse Métropole, announced the creation of a monitoring committee including professionals and road users “in order to regularly assess the impact of this deployment”.