dave21478 Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 As of the 1st of July all pre 1997 cars will be banned from Paris during the week. The ban will get stricter and stricter over time with pre 2010 cars banned by 2020. http://www.lemonde.fr/pollution/article/2016/05/30/les-voitures-d-avant-1997-interdites-de-circulation-dans-paris-a-partir-du-1er-juillet_4929269_1652666.html doubleyeller 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave_Q Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Is this an air quality thing? Not sure if the choking, eye watering but non visible emissions coming out of the modern dizzlers parked outside my daughter's school with he engine running is an improvement really. michael1703 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 I assume that presidential cars are excepted given the number of DSs, SMs and CXs that the Elyssee Palace run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Bit depressing this innit. oldcars and strangeangel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zantimisfit Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 No point in going there then! Bollocks to 'em DSdriver, danthecapriman, mercrocker and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richbraith Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Well that impromtu remake of Ronin I've been planning is gonna have to hurry up then... mk2_craig and anonymous user 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felly Magic Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Wazzocks, they'd have cleaner air if they didn't keep setting fire to old tyres on freshly laid tarmac NorfolkNWeigh, pshome, flat4alfa and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bramz7 Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Not surprising really. Although you have to wonder what the results of taking 10% of vehicles away from Paris will do, given their constantly terrible pollution ratings there in recent years, DEFINITELY EVERYTHING PRE '97 RESPONSIBLE. What sort of range has the ban got? Like, is it all of Paris, or just the centre? It's flippin huge and most of the cool old stuff hides in the suburbs way away anyway…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexg Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 F**king hell, part of the charm of Paris is seeing yellow lighted chod still busting the tarmac. I bet the dude who does 2CV tours is pissed. doubleyeller 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleyeller Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Wasn't that 20TX nut from round here (Yorkshire)? I had a call from the garage where my 20 is being restored, saying that some bus - spotter type had been in asking 1001 pedantic questions about it, and insisting they ring him the second it ever came up for sale hahaha! You thinking what I am? chaseracer, Lacquer Peel, Junkman and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Get them to find out if it is the renowned Reno 20 criminal mastermind 'Darren Bowker' who shafted someone off here whose name I've forgotten Junkman, scruff and doubleyeller 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleyeller Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Get them to find out if it is the renowned Reno 20 criminal mastermind 'Darren Bowker' who shafted someone off here whose name I've forgottenOOOHHH ERR! Sounds like something I definitely don't want to get involved in!They said he was a very polite individual, but a definite Asperges type, who just hovered round them getting in the way and asking endless questions nobody would know the answer too!Harmless but irritating was the general gist of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 All of my pre 1990 chod has vowed never to go there anyway. Apparently its too far.... eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Station Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 This will only affect French vehicles. Miserable law though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urko Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 There might be some strikes or demos yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Well, if they continue not selling any petrol, they won't have an air quality problem.Simples. Dave_Q, mercrocker, holbeck and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Do you think it will extend to all old cars being banned everywhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted June 2, 2016 Author Share Posted June 2, 2016 Not everywhere but I would be surprised if other big cities like Bordeaux, Toulouse and Marseille dont follow later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Isn't London sort of like this anyway? My brother and a few friends have been to Paris and from their reports I don't think I'd be going anyway. sierraman, oldcars and steveo3002 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Then again how often is driving into a big city like say London a realistic possibility? From where I live you'd get the train. It just worries me that the Governnent are hell bent on making people's lives as difficult as possible by enforcing a financial commitment on people in the way of insisting they buy a new car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 During the past 30 years, a political caste has been allowed to establish itself, that is hell bent on EXCLUSIVELY making people's lives ever more awkward.Or when have you last experienced a decision being made by a government to make people's lives easier, or improve anything for people not belonging to a self imposed elite? However, the ban in Paris was made by the city hall, not the French government. To be fair, Paris always had severe air quality problems, due to its particular meteorological situation, and measures to improve its air quality would be urgently required.Please check out this comparison of the pollution levels between Paris and Manchester: http://www.numbeo.com/pollution/compare_cities.jsp?country1=France&country2=United+Kingdom&city1=Paris&city2=Manchester&tracking=getDispatchComparison What is seriously off pissing though, is that banning cars from a certain year of manufacture back does absolutely the square root of fuck all to improve things, it is merely yet another one of those typical rubber stamp actions done before the political caste can return to sipping Champagne and fucking expensive hookers little children.That this ban will be introduced, has been on the horizon for a few years now, and cars registered as "collectible" (Carte Grise Collection) are explicitly exempt from it. mercrocker and chaseracer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doobietoo Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Do you think it will extend to all old cars being banned everywhere? Yep.....No profit in old vehicles for big buisness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Fuck them. I'll fight them all the way!😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisbon_road Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Why don't they just ban cars from the centre and have done with it? Car free town centres would be quite good really. Says somewhere that 10% of Paris cars are over 19 years old. Sounds like more than here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 OOOHHH ERR! Sounds like something I definitely don't want to get involved in!They said he was a very polite individual, but a definite Asperges type, who just hovered round them getting in the way and asking endless questions nobody would know the answer too!Harmless but irritating was the general gist of it!The Autoshite demographic in two sentences . BorniteIdentity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Car free town centres usually carry the added danger of being knocked to fuck by a cyclist taking a (legal) short cut travelling at 40mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyNuts Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 I can't help but wonder if the ban applies to VW too? Oh hang on.. They talk money too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Do the cars have to be running? Could you theoretically drive a fucked 10 year old Mercedes diesel through Paris towing a Renault 30 for example? Because that would definitely cut pollution and congestion! Dick Longbridge and Lacquer Peel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 As soon as this ludicrous sledge-hammer type of legislation raises its ugly head over here I will probably do the right thing and buy a Toyota Pious or one of those electrickery BMW things. Then put my A Series in it. Dick Longbridge, Parky and Zantimisfit 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Jimmy Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 They said he was a very polite individual, but a definite Asperges type,Well that rules most of us out then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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