More and more environmental zones in France!

At the end of the year, more environmental zones will be introduced in France, which must be taken into account during the route planning! In November alone, 6 new zones were introduced: Toulouse, Haute-Savoie, Savoie, Maine-et-Loire, Vendée and Gers.

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Winter is the season of air pollution peaks. The French local governments are aware of it and for this reason they 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, particularly large-scale, almost unplannable 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 a particularly heavy air pollution, as it occurs more frequently in these regions. Unlike the 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. The borders of these zones are therefore not fixed, but set individually in the event of an air pollution peak. Traffic restrictions are then imposed on Crit'Air badge classes, whereby the orders provide several warning phases, that will first exclude vehicles without Crit'Air badge from circulation and later ban the worse Crit'Air badges 4 and 5.

On the crit-air.fr 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.

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