In Darmstadt, it is, as measures to improve the air quality from 1. June 2019 Diesel-driving bans on two particularly busy streets. The Land of Hessen has reached an agreement with the German environmental aid (DUH) and the environmental transport club VCD in a settlement agreement. The binding part of the agreement measures of the city of Darmstadt for the promotion of public transport and Cycling.
The bans relate to the hill road and Henry street. There are ex 1. June 2019 restrictions on diesel vehicles up to Euro standard 5, and old gasoline up to Euro norm 2. Retrofitted vehicles emit in actual driving to less than 270 milligrams of nitrogen oxide per kilometre of operation are exempt from the traffic restrictions also craftsmen can be granted exceptions.
the restrictions until the mid-2020 will also apply for residents and Taxis, as well as, in principle, for vehicles with special rights, such as emergency services. In the event that for cars of the affected residents by 2020 no suitable retrofitting is available, the deadline is extended for a further year.
“The burdens of the hill road and Henry street are so high that traffic restrictions on these roads, unfortunately, inevitable,” said environmental Minister Priska Hinz (Green). The primary objective was “to ensure the health of the population in Darmstadt, and throughout Hessen”.
With the agreement to Darmstadt was reached in the litigation to poor air quality in German cities for the first time, an out-of-court agreement. The comparison procedures have opened the possibility, to make the driving bans, “rather than court orders to follow,” said Hinz. Developed an “excellent basis”, in order to achieve the improvement of air quality as soon as possible.
The DUH was required to Darmstadt driving bans for older Diesel so that the limit values for nitrogen oxide to be adhered to. The South Hessian town occupied, according to the Association, on the list of German cities with high nitrogen oxide loading to Stuttgart and Munich in third place.
The environmental aid defendants in a number of cities and calls for measures to improve air quality. For many municipalities ordered dishes already driving bans.
mayor: “Further interventions in the urban mobility” avoided
According to the environmental assistance and the VCD of the dialogue with the Hesse state government was “constructive”. The DUH’s wishes, “that this example of actions in other clean-Air school,” said national Manager Jürgen Resch. In this way, quickly and easily “legal certainty about the nature and extent of the Diesel-driving bans and other measures could be achieved”.
Should not decrease the nitrogen dioxide pollution in Darmstadt in the second half of 2019 as forecast under the EU limit of an annual average of 40 micrograms per cubic meter of air, is compounded of the package of measures of the agreement, according to.
The city, however, is “convinced” that the measures to improve air quality will enable a significant reduction of air pollution and thus, the “quick compliance with the applicable limit values for nitrogen dioxide,” said mayor Jochen Partsch (Green). In addition, it has been possible “to avoid further interventions in the urban mobility.”
the Sharp criticism of the agreement came from the Hesse FDP. This show in all clarity that “Green and environmental put help under a blanket and their ideology-driven transport policy, with all the Power to implement,” said the transport policy spokesman of the Hessian parliamentary group, Jürgen Lenders. The driving bans are “a slap in the face of all the diesel driver”.
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Minister for the environment, Hinz said, for Darmstadt, the traffic restrictions would be “sure to be felt,” and also checks for adherence to be “a challenge”. She appealed to the Federal government: This would now put everything in motion, that there is as soon as possible retrofits at the expense of the automobile industry. (AFP)
