Another city is planning to introduce the Clean Transport Zone. Residents announced a protest

A public consultation has been going on for respective months on the introduction of a clean transport region in the capital of Lower Silesia. The Wrocław authorities point to plans to introduce this region by 2025. However, there is simply a protest against the introduction this Saturday, December 9, under the slogan “The region for the Exclusion of Poorer Residents”, as its organizers say.

Wrocław thus joins initiatives already being implemented in another Polish cities. Kraków and Warsaw plan to introduce a clean transport region in July 2024. specified a region is expected to limit the anticipation of older cars entering the centre area and the city centre.

Clean transport zones. There will be protest in Wroclaw

Before discussing the introduction of a clean transport region in Wrocław, the city authorities commissioned experts from the Polish alternate Fuel Association (PSPA) to carry out an analysis. The results of this analysis resulted in recommendations concerning the introduction of a clean air region for the capital of Lower Silesia.

PSPA experts propose that clean air zone should be introduced in 2025 and then expanded in 2028, reaching its final form in 2032. According to their analysis, the optimal area of the clean air region should cover areas from the south based on a railway embankment at the Main Station, extending from the west along the embankment of the railway line to Poznań, and then limiting from the north and east at Stara Oder, connecting with railway areas close the intersection of Krakowska and Low Łąki streets.

According to the recommendation, starting in 2025, there would be a ban on entering the clean air region for vehicles aged 20 and older with a diesel engine and for vehicles aged 25 and older with a petrol engine.

During the research, specified restrictions would cover 13% of vehicles, which translate into 25% nitrogen oxide emissions and 58% of particulate matter.

Robert Grzechnik, city councillor, plans to organise a Wrocław protest against the introduction of the “Deprivation region of Poorer Residents” on Saturday, December 9, at 1 p.m. on the marketplace Square. In his opinion, the proposed solution is not accepted by all due to the issue of the clean transport zone.

The rattle argues that more than 90% of traffic-related dust contamination is due to utilized brakes, clutches, tyres and road dust. He claims that electrical cars intended to replace older vehicles make more of these pollutants than combustion cars due to their larger mass. In his opinion, excluding older vehicles will not improve air quality. He points out that clean transport zone it will not improve air cleanliness, but will exclude any residents from access to roads in the city centre, and the possible infringement will be severely punished.

The councillor believes that the nonsubjective of the proposed region is not to care about the environment or to improve air quality. According to him, the main nonsubjective is to exclude poorer residents from the anticipation of owning their own car, while at the same time providing regular customers to automotive companies and generating more gross for local governments through mandates and charges for utilizing public transport.

The city's asking people's opinion

The City Hall in Wrocław announced that the City Council would address the draft resolution on the introduction of clean transport zones in the fresh word of office. The public consultation on this issue has been ongoing since March this year. The first phase included meetings with residents of various districts of the city, involving more than 400 people. In addition, 1.4 1000 people submitted their comments on the planned zones.

Bartłomiej Świerczewski, manager of the Social Affairs Department of the Wrocław Magistrate, emphasized that the opinions of the inhabitants are powerfully divided. For this reason, it was decided to extend the consultation by organising a citizens' meeting, in which elected representatives of residents and associations jointly effort to scope an agreement on the introduction of the zone.

Świerczewski further pointed out that 60% of people who have so far expressed their opinions are negatively afraid with the proposed solutions related to the introduction of the zone.