Seen on the news today that France have made a new law in Paris which put basically, allows people to only drive around the capital every other day. Number plates with odd numbers one day, number plates with even numbers another. And a €22 fine if you ignore this and get caught by police or CCTV.

Public transport seems pretty cheap to me in Paris, and especially as it's only a small city, don't know why they don't use that more. If you have an electric car your exempt, and I think they're making public transport like buses free. It was tried in Milan years ago and people just borrowed others people's cars, or in some cases even just bought another one, so rendered the rule pointless.

What would you do if that came to London?

Most of the transport in London is business use, most in bands 1/2/3 dont own a car and commute on public transport. Lack of parking, expensive parking permits mean it's just too expensive.

 

IIRC over 85% of congestion charge payments are paid by businesses who operate in London.  We have 12 currently in the city daily, and thats due to expand to 24 this year apparently at the £10/day per car or whatever it is these days

Yeah, I know London has the congestion charge and low emission zones, but banning people from driving on some days all together seems an interesting move. The French do like their diesels, and I guess it's on way to cut down on emissions. I was amazed by the amount of traffic and cars there are in Paris when I recently went. To me, everything seems accessible by train or foot.

I presume taxis are exempt?

Doesn't Mexico use this system in Mexico City?

You just buy two cars and drive everyday anyway. 

What would you do if that came to London?

 

I'd get by...

I'd get by...

As would I, I've only ever driven into London once and hope never to have to again! But I thought others may have too. The French just need to plant more trees

As would I, I've only ever driven into London once and hope never to have to again! But I thought others may have too. The French just need to plant more trees

 

I drive in every working day.

People would just get round it by making sure the two family cars are eligible for odd and even days.

Or buy a 2nd old banger.

If they introduced a congestion charge like what we have here, surely that would make it better as public transport is cheap over there.

How do you get by if you're not from there? If you go from say England to Paris can you drive? Are you allowed to drive everyday?

And what about London, if they brought ihis in and someone from Scotland needed to go down to London for a day but didn't know about the ban and it happened to effect them, they'd get fined?

it would never work here, our registration system is totally different. We don't have anything in our current system that could reliably be used, so it would never work. In france plates are tied to districts, there are no year indicators, no personalised registrations, nothing. So a plate in France is allocated randomly based on where the owner lives and thats it.

 

The Paris system is easy to get around anyway, just have two cars. One with an even reg and another with an odd number, then you can still drive everyday.  Of course foreign registered cars can still drive in Paris everyday, so no problem for us brits or EU migrants.

Or find a sudden rise in numberplate cloning from similar cars to yours.....