The news is advanced by Reuters, adding that Hamburg has already started to place signs, indicating which vehicles are prohibited from circulating in certain streets of the city. The information collected by the same news agency points towards the ban coming into effect this month.
The decision now known in what is the second largest city in Germany, with about 1.8 million inhabitants, follows the decision of a German court, handed down last February, which gives the mayors the right to impose such restrictions. .
At the moment, Hamburg is only awaiting a second court decision, as to the type of vehicles whose circulation may be prohibited in the city — whether only cars that do not comply with the Euro 6 standard, which came into force in 2014, or, on the contrary, just a number reduced number of vehicles, which do not even respect the Euro 5 of 2009.
environmentalists against alternative
Despite having already placed about 100 traffic signs informing drivers of the arteries where they will not be able to travel, the municipality of Hamburg has not failed, however, to propose alternative routes. Something that, however, ended up displeasing environmentalists, who believe that this solution has made drivers travel longer distances, emitting more polluting gases.As for the inspection in the arteries where older Diesels are now prohibited from circulating, it will be carried out through the installation of air quality monitors.
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Europe follows trend
While Germany advances with the ban on the circulation of older diesel vehicles in cities, other European countries, such as the United Kingdom, France or the Netherlands, have already decided to move forward with proposals to ban the sale of any and all cars with combustion engines. internal, by 2040 at the latest.