I’ve read this on the RAC website
Is it really happening, or is it words only ?
Ta
I’ve read this on the RAC website
Is it really happening, or is it words only ?
Ta
Think there is already a topic discussing this, but yes, it’s real.
The French Government site has all the details …
The FAQ is in French and English…
https://www.certificat-air.gouv.fr/en/foire-aux-questions
another useful site:
Just out of interest, and slightly off topic, but does anyone know how it works in London? I know there’s the pollution zone, where all the roads going into London have signs saying that beyond that point you have to have paid the pollution tax or something - a couple of years ago my blinking satnav took me too close in and I had to turn round as soon as I could and go back, wasn’t sure what penalties I might incur. But the roads in central London seem incredibly car free these days, mainly just taxis and EVs, and you even see empty parking spaces - none of the double parked cars everywhere that you used to see. I’d be interested to know how they achieved that? Hard to believe it’s all a result of a tax, or if it is it must be astronomcially high.
London has the congestion charge but does it have pollution restrictions for all vehicles? Last time I was in that area it was only >3.5 tonnes.
A few years ago I was driving into London on the A13 with my son. As I didn’t understand the congestion charge I stopped in a layby that was posted as having an information board. The wording of the restrictions was so confusing that I, an educated Englishman, couldn’t understand them. What a non English speaker would make of them I don’t know. The sentence I particularly liked was, 'These restrictions apply during the working week (including the weekends). Luckily, at the time we were heading to Greenwich which was outside the restriction zone anyway so I didn’t need to try to make sense of it all. There were many ways to pay before or after entering the zone and I’m sure if I actually needed to find out more it will be on the Internet. Luckily I will never need to know. It’s like that in Paris for me too as there will never be a need for me to go inside the périphérique. A bigger worry for me will be if/when Rouen adopts the system as I might do a return trip through there once every two or three years but at worst, I would need to make a small detour.
I used a similar system for years when I lived in Germany. I did need my vignette to enter Düsseldorf which I did fairly frequently but there the park and ride systems were so efficient they were a viable alternative anyway.
“Low emissions zone” is what it says on the signs as you approach London, I’ve just remembered.
I have in the past tried to google it but it seemed awfully complicated, was just thinking that someone on here might live/have lived in London and know how it works in practice.
All you need to know about the London low emission zone
Thanks, I note Paris, Lyon and Grenoble are the only ‘live’ requirements at the moment, but reading that "As many as 22 other French towns have signalled their interest in making a similar move over the next three years. " makes me wonder who next ?
indeed, and much more besides - thank you James, I’ll read it when I get a spare half-day
Does the UK just not do bite-sized summaries of how things work?
~As the only time we need to go to Lyon is when we have to go to hospital, it seems a bit unnecessary, but then you can bet we would be the ones that would be fined!
I’ve just bought our vignettes on-line using the Government site. Very easy process and cheap enough… 4,18 euro for each car.
I have received, via email, documents which will satisfy the Gendarmes (if necessary) until the vignettes arrive in the post.
Just done it as well, very (unusually) easy and quick.
Plus…
I’ve got the confirmation document from Fedération Française de Véhicules d’Époque that my 1966 Sunbeam does not need a Pollution/Clean Air vignette and can travel without any restrictions…Yippee…
Whilst this certainly does apply to Paris… I have yet to see if the same will apply to the other cities where older vehicule restrictions are in place.
But for the moment, Paris will do…
Vehicles with a Carte Grise Vehicles de Collection are exempt.
Sunbeam, Tiger/Alpine or Rapier?
Yes, David…I have the FFVE Flash Info No 98 du 6 fevrier 2017…
but, as they say, it will only be until the end of June 2021.
There is no promise that it will be adopted after that date…
and, as I say, it is only for Paris at the moment.
Sunbeam Rapier Series V… my pride and joy…
Very nice, I used to have the later H120 fastback. Loved it, unfortunately corrosion eventually took it away. It was the car I drove on my first (independent) holiday in france, Cap d’Agde in 1979
Touch-wood… my car is still solid enough. There is a small amount of rust which was meant to be sorted this Winter… but an engine rebuild took precedence. Possibly get that rust seen to and respray those panels next autumn/winter. I would like to keep the car as near original as possible… but I’m not fanatical about it.