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| The ban will come in stages and the beginning will be next year / Photo: Marco Nürnberger |
Cars and motorcycles running petrol or diesel will be banned from driving in Amsterdam from 2030.
The city council is planning a gradual change as part of a campaign to clean up air pollution, blamed by the authorities to shorten the life expectancy of Amsterdam residents for a year.
"Pollution is often a silent killer and it is one of Amsterdam's biggest health risks," said Sharon Dixma, the city's traffic adviser, announcing the municipality's decision.
Starting in 2019, 15-year-old or older diesel cars will be banned from the A10 ring road around the Dutch capital.
Public buses and trucks emitting exhaust fumes will not enter the city center since 2022, the ban will be extended to pleasure crafts on its waters, mopeds and light mopeds. By 2025.
All traffic within the built-up area must be free of emissions by 2030 under the Clean Air Action Plan.
The city is planning to encourage its residents to switch to electric and hydrogen cars by offering shippers to every buyer of this vehicle. It is hoped that the market for used electric cars will flourish in the coming years.
It will take a great effort to prepare Amsterdam according to the schedule. The Guardian notes that in addition to encouraging residents to buy new electric or hydrogen cars, Amsterdam will need to install between 13,000 and 20,000 cargo terminals by 2025 to ensure that everyone has electricity for electric cars.
In large part because of heavy traffic in the cities of Amsterdam, Maastricht and Rotterdam, air pollution in the Netherlands is worse than European rules allow. There are fears that levels of nitrogen dioxide and particle emissions are causing respiratory diseases.
But the Rai Association, the pressure group in the automobile industry, condemned the plan as strange and strange. "Tens of thousands of families who do not have the money to buy an electric car will soon be left in the cold," a spokesman said, making Amsterdam a city for the rich.
"By 2030, about a third of the cars will be electric, as we expect, but there will also be a lot of people who will not be able to afford it by then."
In January 2018, the Dutch Health Council called on the government to develop an ambitious strategy to improve air quality in the Netherlands, warning that "pollution cover" could cause serious health problems in the country.
City authorities and governments around the world are moving towards cars that produce greenhouse gas emissions from their streets.
Last year, Madrid began restricting access to petrol cars manufactured before 2000 and diesel-powered cars before 2006. Rome pledged to ban diesel cars from the city center by 2024.
The Danish government has said it wants to ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars from 2030 and hybrid vehicles in 2035.
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