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GREEN: Paris Seeks Ban On Older Cars
Mayor’s proposal would keep vintage vehicles, including French classics, off the streets of the capital city in a bid to clean the air.
The Paris clean-air proposal would keep vintage cars, such as this 1938 Citroen Traction Avant, from driving in the city. (Photo: Barrett-Jackson
For some, the image of a classic Citroën DS passing along the Champs-Élysées couldn't be much more French if a man in a striped top and beret walked past swinging a chain of onions.
But that image could soon be shattered as Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe readies plans that ban all pre-1997 cars from the city's streets in bid to curb pollution.
The plans have angered classic-car fans, whose vehicles make up only three percent of the vehicles on Parisian roads, about 365,000 cars, according to Reuters.
It would take some of France's most distinctive vehicles off the streets, including such iconic vehicles as the aforementioned Citroën DS, the 2CV, the Peugeot 205 GTI hot hatchback and the dependable Renault 4L, along with dozens of others.
Others complain that it would prevent those who are simply unable to afford anything newer from driving around the city.
In 2010, Paris tried out a ban of gas-guzzling off-road vehicles from its streets. The latest scheme has been described as "another hairbrained idea" to please ecologists and wealthy Parisians, according to Claude Fauconnier, vice-president of the French Friends of the 2CV Club.
The mayor, whose previous initiatives have included Paris's bike-sharing scheme, Velib' (partner of the Autolib' electric-car sharing service), has been accused previously of turning the capital into a "playground for the rich."
Delanoe defends the latest move, which he says "is for our citizens – it's a public-health battle and we've been fighting since 2001 to try and make the air here more breathable."
Several other cities around the world have introduced similar initiatives in recent years. The Emirate of Dubai has banned all cars older than 20 years from its roads to reduce pollution, while cars driving into the German city of Frankfurt have to meet a minimum European emissions standard.
If the Parisian proposal gains ministerial approval in January, it will go into force in 2014.
This story originally appeared at Green Car Reports.
But that image could soon be shattered as Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe readies plans that ban all pre-1997 cars from the city's streets in bid to curb pollution.
The plans have angered classic-car fans, whose vehicles make up only three percent of the vehicles on Parisian roads, about 365,000 cars, according to Reuters.
It would take some of France's most distinctive vehicles off the streets, including such iconic vehicles as the aforementioned Citroën DS, the 2CV, the Peugeot 205 GTI hot hatchback and the dependable Renault 4L, along with dozens of others.
Others complain that it would prevent those who are simply unable to afford anything newer from driving around the city.
In 2010, Paris tried out a ban of gas-guzzling off-road vehicles from its streets. The latest scheme has been described as "another hairbrained idea" to please ecologists and wealthy Parisians, according to Claude Fauconnier, vice-president of the French Friends of the 2CV Club.
The mayor, whose previous initiatives have included Paris's bike-sharing scheme, Velib' (partner of the Autolib' electric-car sharing service), has been accused previously of turning the capital into a "playground for the rich."
Delanoe defends the latest move, which he says "is for our citizens – it's a public-health battle and we've been fighting since 2001 to try and make the air here more breathable."
Several other cities around the world have introduced similar initiatives in recent years. The Emirate of Dubai has banned all cars older than 20 years from its roads to reduce pollution, while cars driving into the German city of Frankfurt have to meet a minimum European emissions standard.
If the Parisian proposal gains ministerial approval in January, it will go into force in 2014.
This story originally appeared at Green Car Reports.
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