Pollution: the mayor of Paris is preparing to implement the toll weight … – Les Echos

Pollution: the mayor of Paris is preparing to implement the toll weight … – Les Echos

In late September the Paris council must decide on the start-up of a transit toll for trucks over 3.5 tons. This measure was announced after the peak of air pollution last week

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The end of free for trucks to Paris, it’s coming. The Council of Paris prepares to vote in late September the commissioning of the toll of transit for heavy goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes on the device. Information revealed by the JDD. Four gantries have been installed and the device should be set up in two stages. From October 1, the passages will be recorded in white, but will not result in payment. The implementation of the environmental tax will take place from January 1, 2015 The fixed price is 0.13 euros per kilometer and is expected to bring five million euros a year in Paris. This device “is only the Paris declination decisions this summer” in government, the mayor justified recalling that these trucks are those who perform international transport and are just passing through the capital. It also concerns all Ile-de-France motorway. Transport professionals have immediately denounced the decision.

To create a lane for taxis on the A1

June 26, the National Assembly passed a government amendment which replaces the environmental levy a toll for transit trucks. Its entry into force was 1 January 2015, preceded by three months’ march to white in the fall. ” Toll transit truck, including the calculation of course is done with a GPS unit embedded in the trucks will yield about 300 million net annual income over the entire France. Originally the environmental tax would allow the public agency to finance transport infrastructure to benefit 600 million of resources to carry out major works including the TGV and thus promote the shift from road to rail traffic . The announcement of the Paris decision comes after a pollution peak last week. The mayor of Paris also provides for the establishment of additional aid for the purchase of electric or hybrid taxis and creating taxiways riding on motorways A1 and 6A 30 between 6 am and 10:00 .