Warsaw doubles the alleged clean transport zone

Insolent Vice president of Warsaw Michał Olszewski saysthat the clean transport region was increased twice, "listening to the voices of the inhabitants".

Warsaw doubles the alleged clean transport zone. Its fresh boundaries will make life more hard not only for the residents and employees of the centre, but besides for the remaining districts of the city, as it included all the passing streets. You simply can't live in Warsaw outside the region so you don't gotta enter it.

The residents of the region will be given 4 years off from having to replace the car with a newer one. This means that in 4 years they will gotta buy a 2006 minimum car for a petrol vehicle or a 2015 minimum for diesel. Did the Warsaw authorities foresee any subsidies or support for these people? Well, no. They just gotta do it, that's all. I'm certain Vice president Olszewski will inactive show them the sales area they're going to, of course, pro bono.

But this is nothing, due to the fact that in the first version of the SCT the exemptions were to be not for residents of the zone, but for residents of Warsaw. So if you live outside the zone, but in Warsaw – i.e. it is most likely about half the inhabitants of the capital – then you have about a year to change your car to legal.

In six months you will gotta carry out this operation, plan it in your home budget, invest time and money in it. This is an unheard thing on a European scale, and I have not heard of any clean transport region task that leaves residents so small time to respond – and it was the people who had all right to believe that the region would go far from them.

Like the level of hypocrisy served to the inhabitants. The problem is that I would not protest this area if it were introduced with a real intention to improve air quality by reducing traffic. For example, if there were a limit on transit through the centre per year, that would be understandable. For example, if there is simply a limit on the kilometres driven in the zone, or a limit on the engine's cylinder capacity (as a link to the amount of exhaust emissions).

Maybe if a region was made that the bigger your car, the more you gotta pay. I'd realize all that. I would, but I would understand. Only that then the sharpening would be democratic and would affect the rich, and that cannot be done.

Poles don't have an old car, they have fresh cars. We can't have Matiz, which has a capacity of 800 ccm, but we can have a fresh Ford F-350. We will be able to enter the region of clean transport the largest possible SUV, Cadillac Escalade ESV, Lexus LX, or any another ridiculously large and fuel consuming car – as long as it is new. This is simply a rich transport region that simply aims to destruct the mediocre in cars.

Poor people aren't expected to drive a car so they don't disturb the rich country in utilizing the streets, or they're expected to owe themselves and buy a fresh car in the surviving room. We moved on to a phase where global corporations bought our authorities and now they will just regulation us, and the president or Vice president of Warsaw (/any another city in Poland) will follow orders from the car manufacturers association.

The name “Polish alternate Fuel Association” simply covers an association of car manufacturers, with which PSPA even advertises on its website. It is hard to believe that a completely private organization, having nothing to do with democratically elected authorities, has received specified powers to give life to people. It's a matter, I'm not afraid to say, criminal.

Just look at the map of the zone. Imagine that in six months we gotta replace the car with a fresh one, and the neighbour surviving 50 m distant – not anymore. The inhabitants of the Slavic Sonata Street are in the zone, so they are released from the regulation and the inhabitants of Okaryna Street are not. But it is even better due to the fact that there are settlements outside the zone, which are only accessible through the zone, and we have, for example, the Passata B6 2.0 TDI from 2005, which in six months we will not get home.

What are the consequences of a region in this shape?

1. Deepening social divisions by arbitrary division of people into ‘on’ and ‘off’, only by residence in the city area
2. destabilizing the second-hand car marketplace (diesel will become worthless)
3. Significant increase in service prices due to the request for replacement of commercial and commercial vehicles by persons operating in the hydraulics, electricians, removals

What consequences won't there be? Improve air quality. And if the air doesn't improve, then the criteria will should be further tightened. This is the logic of green communists.

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