Mandatory SCT? 4 cities won't end! On the list of “candidates” of respective 100 1000 cities

The government's draft amendment to the Electromobility and alternate Fuels Act hides a trap on drivers. It is an work to make Clean Transport Zones in cities of 100-thousand, above air quality standards. Today, 4 major metropolises would be required to do so, but standards will shortly change. And then zones will should be created in respective Polish cities.

He went public. Social Movement We're not giving up the city, which examined not only the provisions of the government task but besides aligned them with the EU plans to lower the air quality limits. And although present the government officially points out that the mandatory SCT – according to the task – would make “only” in 4 major cities – due to the fact that exceeding the average yearly NO2 standards has been recorded in Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw and Katowice, this will shortly change.

For any purpose, the government included in the task the work of the SCT for 100,000 cities. Though they are not “catching” in fixed forks today, according to We won't quit the city., the applicable emanation standards are to be amended. According to the plans for changes to EU law, the existing standard 40 micrograms NO2 per cubic metre is to be reduced by half to 20 micrograms.

Given the current emissions of the cities "100 1000 plus" and fresh standards, mandatory SCTs would should be created in specified places as Częstochowa, Tarnów, Rzeszów, Kielce, Bydgoszcz, Lodz, Bielsko-Biała, Białystok and Szczecin. And as he adds We won't quit the city., respective more cities over 100,000 inhabitants can be added to this list, in which the Chief Environment Inspectorate has not yet measured the NO2 level.

“This is not the end. due to the fact that it is known that in the next 2 cities (Ribnik, Włocławek) the current average yearly level of NO2 is presently – according to GIÓŚ data – equal to the planned standard. Thus, we have respective cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, in which Clean Transport Zones – under the proposed law – will should be created," he warns. The Social Movement will not give back the City.

The provisions adopted by the government will put the city authorities in difficulty. The air quality assessment is due until 30 April. In the event of a breach of standards, the SCT must be established from the beginning of the following year in which the authorities received information about the breach. The municipalities will have only a fewer months to make changes. As has been shown by the practice so far, this will be at the expense of hitting civilian rights, even by organising fast and superficial public consultations. The reliability of environmental analyses will besides likely be affected. The rulers point out that SCTs will be able to be liquidated erstwhile air quality standards for the city are maintained for the next 3 years.

The task besides introduces the work for local governments to acquisition only zero-emission (electric) urban buses. This applies to municipalities with more than 100 000 inhabitants and operators or organisers of public collective transport to which that municipality has ordered or entrusted the operation of passenger transport in road transport as part of public transport.

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Source: We won't quit the city.

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