So avoid the environmental zone in Utrecht

Posted on 26-10-2015 at 18:40 by Ricardo – 31 Comments”

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Here is the decisive policies of GroenLinks in the practice. In an unprecedented feat symboolpolitiek saddled they the center of town earlier this year with an environmental zone, where cars and vans are not on the Euro standard, but on year of construction (currently <2001, soon <2006) from the heart of the City will be banned. A poorly-argued but profitable measure, as since in may 2015, there are already over 7,000 fines to 90 euros handed out. You can do the math but.

But what it turns out. The environmental zone is as unreliable as the structure for the dieselverbod. RTV Utrecht did some research and found within no time a number of large holes in the system. Places where no cameras are able to allow your registration to George Orwellen if you have the town enter.

On the Croeselaan (Google Maps) you can just before the camera left and right, with your pre-2001 diesel a piece of residential tackle and twenty metres further on the right street again pay the price. Fine, that shortcut traffic for local residents.

On the other side of the trade makes the city even further. The Captain of The Oudelaan (Google Maps) is even no camera. Something that reeks of a striking bargains-deal with the Jaarbeurs, where of course huge a lot of uninformed traffic from the outside. The municipality seems to be a fine explosion to want to prevent. Something that the city council, incidentally, denies.

The municipality is talking the half-hearted enforcement of the environmental good by claiming that due to “efficiency” is not anywhere cameras. Right. And this is why every Jaarbeursbezoeker spared, because of efficiency. But hey, we do not complain. Keep burgerhatende measure but tasty hesitating to run. We drive with our VAG TDI for the cameras.

Video of the mismanagement in the practice on Autojunk.