Couldn’t they have given out free or reduced price Crit’Air to the lowest earners and/or local residents? Similar to chèque énergie (winter fuel allowance), which is already means tested. This probably wouldn’t affect the goal of reducing polluting traffic by much.
The crit d’air itself is cheap - I recently ordered one and even with postage to Germany it was under 5€. It was also quite easy - go to a website, put in data from your car licence, pay via credit card, that’s it.
The big issue here is that they are kind of aggressive in weeding out older cars - you can’t get a crit d’air for cars older than 1997. That makes sense - those cars do not have modern emission tech and they are at least 28 years old. Some cities like Paris have even stricter rules and ban cars older than 2005.
Couldn’t they have given out free or reduced price Crit’Air to the lowest earners and/or local residents? Similar to chèque énergie (winter fuel allowance), which is already means tested. This probably wouldn’t affect the goal of reducing polluting traffic by much.
The crit d’air itself is cheap - I recently ordered one and even with postage to Germany it was under 5€. It was also quite easy - go to a website, put in data from your car licence, pay via credit card, that’s it.
The big issue here is that they are kind of aggressive in weeding out older cars - you can’t get a crit d’air for cars older than 1997. That makes sense - those cars do not have modern emission tech and they are at least 28 years old. Some cities like Paris have even stricter rules and ban cars older than 2005.