Le Figaro Bordeaux
Bordeaux, an ecological city with a “
walking plan
” and a large part given to soft mobility, does not yet have a low mobility emission zone (ZFE-m).
A device yet mandatory by 2025 for all cities with more than 150,000 inhabitants.
This measure consists in limiting the circulation of the most polluting vehicles, to fight against air pollution.
A public consultation has just started, for implementation in 2024.
40,000 deaths are linked each year to air pollution.
Claudine Bichet, first deputy mayor of Bordeaux and vice-president of Bordeaux Métropole, specifies that on the scale of the metropolis, around 600 deaths per year could be avoided, for a "
health cost
" of around 300 million euros.
About 60,000 people in metropolitan France are “
recurringly exposed to exceeding the limit values set by law
” for nitrogen dioxide, suspended particles and fine particles.
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Currently, eleven cities have already set up a ZFE.
But in Bordeaux, things take longer.
The subject caused some stir during the municipal council on November 8.
Challenged by the opposition, Claudine Bichet recalled the desire of the communities concerned to "
ensure that the low emission zone does not become a zone of high exclusion
".
On the mainland, consultations will therefore extend until the beginning of 2023.
Implementation of the ZFE from 2024
This Tuesday, November 22, during the first public meeting on the ZFE, at the Athénée municipal de Bordeaux, two scenarios were presented by Claudine Bichet and the agents of the metropolis.
The
proactive scenario
would begin in 2024 with the ban on the circulation of Crit'Air 4, 5 or unclassified vehicles.
From 2025, Crit'Air 3 vehicles will also be affected, and Crit'Air 2 vehicles will no longer be able to circulate inside the Ring Road from 2028. The
educational scenario
, for its part, would shift these three stages in time, with a first limitation from 2024, then in 2027 for the Crit'Air 3 and finally 2030 for the Crit'Air 2. The ZFE will not affect electric vehicles or hydrogen (Crit'Air Verte) and those with the least polluting petrol (Crit'Air 1).
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But “
at this stage, nothing has been decided
”, tempers Claudine Bichet.
Several consultations and public meetings will take place “
to inform and to reflect on the methods of implementation
”.
For the moment, only the perimeter of the ZFE has been recorded: all the municipalities inside the ring road, ie two thirds of the metropolitan population.
The ring road, which comes under State jurisdiction, will nevertheless be excluded from the perimeter of the ZFE.
"
Half of the vehicles that use the ring road take the intra-ring road route
", and the ZFE should therefore "
improve the air quality around the ring road, even if it is outside the system
", specifies however Sarah Grégory, head of the Health and Quality of Life service in the metropolis.
Less than 10% of vehicles affected
If the perimeter is recorded, the periodicity of the ZFE the precise dates of its deployment therefore remain to be discussed.
Pending its implementation, several support measures are already planned to support owners of polluting vehicles: conversion bonus, ecological bonus, microcredit, electric retrofit, etc.
So many cumulative aids put in place by the State and the metropolis.
Currently, among the 113,338 vehicles of Bordeaux residents in 2022, only 10,000 are Crit'Air 4, 5 or unclassified, specifies Sarah Grégory.
They are the ones who will be the first to be affected by the ZFE.
She believes that a "
natural rejuvenation of the car fleet
" is however to be expected by the time the ZFE is put in place, recalling that between 2018 and 2021, the share of Crit'Air 4 vehicles and more in Bordeaux decreased by 50%.
With the inevitable establishment of the ZFE in the metropolis, the last owners of polluting vehicles still have a few years to adapt.
