“Diesel older than eight years is no longer in Rotterdam”

Posted on 17-03-2015 at 7:55 pm by CasperH – 117 Comments”

And we’re not just about downtown, but about a very Rotterdam.

The air quality of the port of Rotterdam is the worst in the Netherlands. According to D66-councillor Samuel Schampers is the concentration stikstofdioxine and fine dust in 010 is much higher than in other cities. The solution? Old diesels ward off from the city. And not just from the inner city or certain areas of the city, just off the entire city if the D66 is. And then we have the not only permits but about a full ban.

Today asks Samuel Schampers to the college of B and W to make haste with a ban, he suspects that about one and a half years is going to cost to get his plan through. However, it must first calculation to be done, how serious is the pollution right now at this moment.

The risk that Rotterdam is “a Utrechtje” does is so real. The ban polluting cars from city centres is not new, but it remains bizarre that there is not the pollution of a car is looked but to the age. And that age is so a lot better discriminated than those of diesels in Utrecht, where diesels before 2001, is no longer welcome (fail) in certain parts of the city, and even the recent plans to to 2006 to move are less severe.

We ask ourselves seriously how long municipalities have given free play with these discriminatory measures. Pollution want to fight is understandable, but adopt rules on emissions are based and not on something discriminerends as age.