Paris to ban bikes over 6 years old.

[Marmalade]

Googly translated email from ffmc below.

But the basics are, from July next year, bikes registered prior to 2000 will not be permitted into the inner areas of Paris.

Petition and all info here > https://www.ffmc.asso.fr/spip.php?article4493&id_article=4493&id_formulaire=1#formulaire_formidable-1

In January 2015, the city of Paris has decided to ban old vehicles on the grounds clean the air Parisians.
are designated as "pollutants" trucks and tour buses, passenger cars manufactured before 1997 and all registered motorcycles before 2000. From July 2016, these vehicles will be banned in Paris, Monday to Friday. This classification will go to hardening until 2020, the year from which will not ride in the capital that vehicles meet the highest standards.

In view of the project dedicated to the "Greater Paris" (extension of the city limits of current A 86), some communities of towns in the suburb of Paris could in turn pass this traffic restriction plan. Such projects involve other provincial cities.
No to the scrapping of vehicles in good condition!
Under the pretext of ecology, thousands of vehicles in perfect working condition may therefore from scrapping the sole benefit of the automotive industry, for whom this plan is called supposed to protect the environment will mainly help to boost sales of new cars, failing to revive jobs since the cars are now manufactured in countries with low-cost. Hello ecology!
Under the pretext of ecology, hundreds of thousands of employees, students, apprentices, pensioners, unemployed, all forced to move, no alternative to the use of a vehicle motorized, will be forced to buy a car or a new motorbike or very recent in the next five years.
The French Federation of Angry Bikers (FFMC) denounces this spatial segregation plan, ostensibly to reduce pollution in central Paris, will generate greater difficulties for people in remote areas of inner cities.
FMWC recalls that the use of a motorized two-wheeler is an alternative to urban congestion generating pollution. A motorcycle in traffic, it's one less car in traffic means less congestion and that's also good for motorists!
A driver on his motorbike, this is a user least in public transport which are saturated at peak times!
FMWC calls users from all regions to mobilize against this restriction project that will not solve the causes of air pollution in Paris, will exacerbate the divisions between the inhabitants of the capital and the suburbs, and will run in other cities in France if he was to be finally adopted.
You have until March 22 to sign the petition, the first round of regional elections. At its closure, it will be presented to the Prime Minister.
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[Clanger]

Blumming heck.
Sounds like the Green party over here...
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[ferrisio]

2015-2000 = 15 years old not 6?
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[rideslikean00...]

Eh. When don't the French do things that confound the rest of the world?
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Previous/Current Bikes
2013 Yamaha YBR-125ED -> 1997 Yamaha YZF-1000R Thunderace -> 2009 Yamaha XJ-6 Diversion -> 2007 Yamaha FZ6 Fazer S2

[Marmalade]

[-Monty-]

Woo hoo! Finally, a reason to get rid of the CB500.


*runs to garden and burns CB500*


On a serious note: Marm, this must be pretty crap for you as, presumably, it will affect your trade unless you get a newer bike

Hopefully, this will be as successful as when they tried to ban filtering
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Past: [Honda PCX 125] [Yamaha RXS 100] [Honda CB 500] [Triumph Speed Four] [Honda ST1100 Pan European - Po-Po Edition]

[Marmalade]

[c-m]

What craziness. Wasn't long ago I was riding my 1999 ZX9R around Paris.

[grr666]

Le shape of things to come kiddies.
If they can get that sort of legislation past the French famed for their tendency to say NON! to anything that they don't like.
(Except german occupation...)
then our nation of abject apathy will be a pushover.
And frankly there aren't enough of us to have a voice eitherways.
Time to sell all those 80s and 90s hacks while they are still worth tuppence.
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[Robster]

Never wanted to go to Paris anyway.
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Up the bum no babies.

[FlightRisk]

There's already a similar plan for London isn't there?

I remember a while back in Paris they had that extreme smog for a week or two and spontaneously started banning vehicles with plates ending in odd or even numbers on alternate days.
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[Doovy]

[Clanger]

The only people who will be exempt will be those taxed under The Showman's Licence.
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