DutchNews.nl, November 28,
2014
Rotterdam council plans to
improve the city’s air quality and has drawn up a €12m package of measures
which locals will be asked to approve, Dutch media report on Friday.
The plans
include getting rid of polluting cars and slashing pollution levels. In
addition, the council’s own fleet of vehicles will be overhauled to reduce its
pollution rate by 25%.
The council is also considering financially rewarding
owners to get rid of polluting cars. In addition it suggests that no more
parking permits will be given for diesel vehicles built before 2005 and
petrol-driver cars predating 1992.
More charging stations will be built for
electric vehicles and there will be better bike facilities.
The council also
wants to ban lorries from the ‘s Gravendijkwal, currently the city’s most
polluted road and a major highway that leads to the Maas tunnel. Transport
organisations have already criticised the lorry ban proposal, saying it will
force freight firms to use longer, more expansive routes, the Financieele Dagblad reported.
Research shows Rotterdammers live three years less than the
average Dutch national, which is partly due to road pollution.
Utrecht and
Amsterdam have already taken steps to reduce the number of polluting cars in
their city centres.
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