Polluted Paris Forces Half Cars Off the Road : Discovery News

The government decided to implement the ban on Saturday after pollution particulates in the air exceeded safe levels for five straight days in Paris and neighboring areas, enveloping the Eiffel Tower in a murky haze.
And while these fell to safer levels on Sunday, they inched up again on Monday, though the pollution was not perceptible to the naked eye.

I ran the bulls (for like 50 yards) in Pamplona and I drove a car in Paris. Guess which one I'd NEVER do again?

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So if you buy a bunch of cars, you have both even and odd covered, or you keep buying new plates until it happens? This only restricts the poor, as usual, since they are really not the big contributors to the problem, they need to be restricted.

"or you keep buying new plates until it happens"

ROTFL -- It's not like that in Europe. A vehicle gets one set of plates for life; the numbers never change. Switching plates will get your vehicle seized and impounded.
The poor use public transit, they can't afford to own cars or pay for fuel. This measure will impact the middle class most, as it's supposed to. North America doesn't have the cohones to do this in any of their polluted cities.

Some US states keep the plate # with the car for life, namely California. Not all European countries keep the plate with the car for life, either. Poland has regional license plates, for example. If the owner moves to a different district or sells the car to someone living in a different area, the plate # has to change...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Poland#Polish_car_number_plates_since_May_1.2C_2000

It's not that US cities don't have the testicular fortitude to do this ... it's that most US cities don't have good enough public transport for this to work. It might work in NY, Boston, and DC, but that's about it.

Get off the dirty floor. So then it is even simpler. Purchase a second vehicle with the plate trait you lack. No worry about chance of plate assignment.

Just buying/parking/keeping a second vehicle in Paris is about as simple as doing so in Manhattan. That is, damn annoying unless you want to shell out for off-street parking.

That or walk/cab/pool whatever. I'd get the other plate.

How does even odd work for vanity plates? They got them?

What's so horrible about walking, cabbing, taking the Metro, or pooling? Seems really dumb to buy another car for a temporary situation that will last a week or two at most.

I'd sooner rent a car or motorbike with the right plate for a few days if I really needed it.

From how far out of town?

And people in Europe don't respect cars, if you have a nice car it gets keyed for no other reason then pettiness. All my friends with nice cars in Europe got rid of them real fast, even the cops will harass you.

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yeah, some people are like that



Some cities like Stockholm and London have a permanent 'congestion tax' and charge a fee to enter the city core. The charge aims to reduce congestion, and to raise funds for upgrading public transport systems. They were implemented by referendum, so a majority of the people are in favor of this.

Take the lane dividers out and its downtown Mexico City.

Depends on the car.