According to Les Echos, the government was currently working on allowing certain cities to consider "on a voluntary basis" to experiment with an urban toll:
So who will be voluntary?
Until now, only new road infrastructures can set up a toll. The Grenelle environmental bill should allow French cities to do so, such as London, Milan or Stockholm. The French project does not seem so advanced, the experiments would be done on a voluntary basis.
As part of the Grenelle environment bill, the government is planning to allow cities that want to implement a congestion charge. Until now, only new infrastructure projects can set up a toll to finance their construction, as was the case for the Ile de Ré bridge or the Prado Carénage tunnel in Marseille, which connects the neighborhoods. south of the city.
While France has decided to divide by four emissions CO2 and knowing that the transport sector continues to grow (accounting for over 25% of emissions), the bill provides for the creation of a national infrastructure scheme transport and significant investment in trams, bus networks own site. But must still convince motorists of the need to abandon their vehicles to take public transport. In Europe, the idea caught on. The City of London was the first to go into 2003 with the creation of a "congestion-charging" a kind of input tax in the heart of the city which amounts to 8 pounds per day. If the new mayor does not question its existence, it decided to review its extension to Kensington and Notting Hill areas decided by his predecessor.
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