Road safety – Paris city hall calls for motorcycle technical control –

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Paris city hall calls for motorcycle technical control

Road safety - Paris city hall calls for motorcycle technical control -

In a press release published yesterday, the mayor of Paris invites the government to set up "as soon as possible" the technical control for motorized two-wheelers. Goal ? Reduce pollution, the level of which is still worrying despite the drastic measures taken by the mayor (PS) Bertrand Delanoë…

In a press release published yesterday, the mayor of Paris invites the government to put in place "as soon as possible" the technical control for motorized two-wheelers. Goal ? Reduce pollution, the level of which is still worrying despite the drastic measures taken by the mayor (PS) Bertrand Delanoë…

70 km / h on the ring road, closure of the left bank, technical control: everything is good !

While its uselessness has just been admitted by the MEPs (read in particular), the technical control for motorized two-wheelers resurfaces in France at the request of the mayor of Paris !

"The City of Paris encourages the government to gradually reduce the tax advantages currently granted to diesel to fight more effectively against particle pollution, and to put in place as soon as possible the technical control for motorized two-wheelers", reports the service communication of the former city of light whose mayor regularly shows a motophobia as distressing as it is constant (read in particular).

This "encouragement" ends a long press release published by the Paris city hall following an interministerial council during which the government gave its agreement to reduce "before the summer" the maximum speed on the Paris ring road from 80 to 70 km / h ( read in particular). This measure, added to the recent closure to traffic on the banks of the left bank, would "reduce pollution", assures the municipality.

An "inexpensive" and "strong environmental" measure

According to the deputy mayor in charge of the environment, lowering the speed on the ring road would be a measure with multiple virtues because it would be "economically inexpensive" and would have "a strong environmental efficiency, mainly because you improve the fluidity".

Attractive statements on paper, but which leave skeptics as to their real effectiveness: already applied in 1993 (reduction from 90 to 80 km / h), lowering the speed on the Paris ring road did not resolve the concerns. congestion of this overloaded axis at peak hours.

But who says "traffic jams" rightly says "pollution peaks", because continuous lines of cars and heavy goods vehicles which stop and restart their engine every ten meters increase the rate of polluting emissions in the air…

Galvanized by this "victory" (speed reduction has always been refused under the previous five-year term), the Paris town hall sees further and encourages the government to broaden its pollution control policy by "financially helping the most households. small businesses and SMEs to acquire electric vehicles ", and by quickly setting up technical control for motorcycles and scooters.

A whole program which leaves aside two small "details": the financial inaccessibility of most electric vehicles and their lack of autonomy on the one hand, and the fluidization of the traffic generated by two-wheelers on the other..

Because even if they are not yet subject to environmental standards as strict as in cars (but the difference is narrowing from year to year), motorcycles and scooters will always have a "pollution balance" lower than that of ” a big diesel sedan that takes three times the time to cover the same distance in the city (read in particular and).

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