The Climate Change and Energy Transition Act calls on municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants to design these areas with traffic restrictions in order to improve air quality. A measure that
affects those drivers from big cities such as Madrid or Barcelona with Low Emission Zones (ZBE), or those who want to reach the center of these cities from the outside. Similarly, many provincial capitals are studying similar measures.
This means that from 2023, cars with labels
A, B and C have limited access in certain cities through the application of this law, which stipulates that those municipalities with a higher population density must enable Low Emission Zones (ZBE). And there are more than 11 and a half million cars in the Spanish cities that must have a ZBE by 2023. And of all, nearly 4 million cars will see their circulation jeopardized by not having a label, according to sumauto data.
This means that 32% of these cities’ mobile fleets will become ‘immobile’ because they are more than two decades old or do not meet the DGT’s requirements to bear the environmental label, thus informing their owners what to do with seen the fact that they have been posted
‘expiry date’ to circle.
From now on there is a scenario of ‘immobilized’ cars that, as long as there are no plans to encourage demolition, will remain parked and take up space in the city because even if they don’t have an environmental label, they will still be the resident to be able to park in the green zone. Another option is for their owners to decide to put them up for sale as this is attractive to rural areas or small towns; or open market abroad for export.
the vehicles
most affected are those labeled A. In reality, these are precisely the vehicles that do not have a label and refer to vehicles registered before 2001 that cannot drive in the areas demarcated by the municipalities, although there are exceptions.
Those with label B (yellow) correspond to cars and light vans running on petrol and registered from January 2000, or diesel from January 2006. Cars with sticker B can access the ZBE, but cannot park in it. They will be able to circulate and park in the perimeter streets of each province, with the exception of Madrid, where it will not be possible to park in the central almond.
Finally, the vehicles with the C label (green) are the petrol passenger cars and vans registered in 2006 and diesel vehicles put up for sale from 2014, in addition to the goods transport vehicles registered in 2014. They can all pass through any Low Emission Zone (ZBE), although there are some restrictions on vehicles of this type in Madrid.
Source: La Verdad
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