The Paris police headquarters reduced the authorized speed by 20 km / h and prohibited individual wood heating during the day of Wednesday, November 10 in Ile-de-France, due to an episode of fine particle pollution.
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Airparif, which measures air quality in Ile-de-France, predicts a "
concentration of fine particles PM10 of between 55 and 70 g / m³, ie a probable exceeding of the information-recommendation threshold set at 50 g / m³
”, explains the Prefecture of Police (PP) in a press release published Tuesday.
110km / h on highways
In order to reduce this pollution, it therefore decided to lower, from Wednesday 5:30 a.m. until the end of the pollution episode, to 110 km / h the maximum speed authorized on motorways, to 90 km / h on roads limited to 110 km / h and 70 km / h on those limited to 90 km / h or 80 km / h.
HGVs over 3.5 tonnes must necessarily bypass the area by the Ile-de-France ring road.
In addition, the PP has also prohibited the use of individual heating with auxiliary or pleasure wood "
which contributes the most strongly to the emission of fine particles
".
The exemptions allowing the open burning of green waste are also suspended.
For its part, the City of Paris announced free residential parking in the capital for Wednesday, in order to encourage residents to use means of transport other than private cars.
The elected ecologists of the Council of Paris (GEP) deplored the choice of the Prefecture "
not to set up differentiated circulation (...) while Airparif foresees an episode of air pollution lasting until Friday
”.
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The Ecologist Group asks "
that differentiated traffic be automatic as soon as the information and recommendation threshold is crossed
" and even "on
the eve of a pollution peak
" in order to avoid this being exceeded.
EELV elected officials and related parties also ask the Île-de-France region, chaired by Valérie Pécresse (LR), "
to make public transport free on pollution days, to promote non-polluting or low-pollution travel
".