Pre-July 2004 motorcycles banned from Paris Low Emission Zones
The noose tightened again by a big notch on June 1 in the Low Emission Zones (ZFE) initiated in Paris in 2017: vehicles carrying the Crit'Air 4 sticker (brown color) now have ultra access -limited to "the whole of the Parisian territory inside the A86 motorway, excluding this one", warns the municipality.
This traffic restriction - which also affects the Bois de Vincennes and Boulogne - applies Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. "except public holidays" to motorcycles and scooters, as well as cars and light commercial vehicles. On the other hand, it is valid "seven days a week" for buses, coaches and heavy goods vehicles considered "Crit'Air 4" (see summary at the bottom of the page).
Set up with the ZFEs, the "Crit'Air" classification distinguishes vehicles according to their age and their certification on a scale ranging from "0" for the most "virtuous" (electric propulsion and hydrogen) to "5" for engines aged considered as pollutants. Motorcycles prior to 2000 and cars with "Euro1" standards appear in the "Unclassified" section.
A paying sticker (3.67 euros) is to be affixed to his motorbike or car to provide information on his Crit'Air status, and therefore his ability to circulate freely or not in the zone described as ZFE. In 2017, this limited access began with Crit'Air 5 and "Unclassified" vehicles: five years later, it is the "Crit'Air 4" which are banned from intramural Paris to the ring road!
17-year-old "old" motorcycles banned in Paris!
Concretely, this ban affects motorcycles and scooters "put into circulation before July 1, 2004", as well as diesel cars before January 1, 2006 and petrol cars before January 1, 1997. No less than "5.61 million inhabitants" are affected by this access restriction in "79" municipalities in "all or part of the A86 ring road", reports the town hall (blue zone below).
In other words: your 17-year-old motorcycle - a teenager! - is no longer welcome in Paris during the week, at the risk otherwise of exposing oneself to a fine of 68 euros (135 € for heavy goods vehicles, buses and coaches). "The affixing of an air quality certificate that does not correspond to the characteristics of the vehicle", is also sanctioned, warn the authorities: "little clever ones" abstain!
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2004, limit both short and long from a technological point of view: radial calipers and inverted forks begin that year to become widespread on sports bikes, just like injection. Another time marker: Kawasaki had just unveiled one of its biggest hits: the Z750!
Well, the first generation "Zed" is undesirable in the capital, as is the splendid Voxan Black Magic - star of the 2003 Paris Motor Show - or even the first BMW R1200GS with the flat increased to 1170 cc. Sequence of emotions... and annoyance: too bad for those with less money who cannot afford to replace a perfectly functional machine.
Small consolation: vehicles whose "registration certificate bears the mention Collection" are exempted because of their low volume. Ironic that motorcycles and scooters over 30 years old - fueled by carburetors and without any catalyst - can freely circulate where their modern equivalent are prohibited!
Crit'Air 3 in 2022 then all-electric in 2030!
And if the pill already seems difficult to swallow, suffocation awaits when you discover the rest because "the ZFE is intended to be strengthened over the years", announces Paris, which aims for nothing less than "100% clean vehicles from here 2030" (electric or hydrogen propulsion, solution not yet finalized). In other words: no more heat engines in less than ten years!
Paris will then switch to "all electric", currently the only so-called "clean" functional energy... if we disregard the extraction of the rare metals necessary for the batteries as well as their recycling, not to mention the management of nuclear waste. , the main source of electricity in France, which is happily bequeathed to future generations. Chernobyl, Fukushima? Nothing to do: it's all about being "trendy"!
While waiting for this deadline, the legislation will also continue to get tougher since from 2022 the traffic restrictions in the Parisian ZFE will extend to Crit'Air 3 vehicles: motorcycles produced before January 1, 2007 (!) will no longer be able to access freely in this famous Low Emission Zone. In just two years...
Then on January 1, 2021, it will be the turn of Crit'Air 2 vehicles, i.e. motorcycles put into circulation before January 1, 2017 (as well as all diesel cars!). We are talking here about models launched only three years ago, like the first Honda CMX500 Rebel, randomly: not really an old steaming and energy-guzzling "brelon"!
Unsurprisingly, alas, this concept of ZFE is only spreading in France and elsewhere: Europe has nearly "250", while Grenoble is the second city to have one after Paris. Lyon, Marseille , Lille, Clermont-Ferrand, Montpellier, Nice or even Reims, Rouen, and Strasbourg are also concerned with rules which are "specific" to them. Finally, so to speak!
