Not just fines: urban tolls will reach the ZBEs next year. This is what we

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Urban tolls associated with Low Emission Zones (ZBE) are very close to becoming a reality in Spain. The Council of Ministers has given the green light to the preliminary draft of the Sustainable Mobility Law , in first reading, which it wants to process urgently. This is the definitive text of this regulation that was presented in March of this year . This regulation will operate as a regulatory umbrella between the state mobility strategy and those of the city councils, providing administrations with certain capabilities. Among them, imposing a fee for traveling through the ZBEs that should be active in about 150 cities in a few days. Although many town councils have not yet defined them.

Which cars will not be able to circulate on the M-30 in Madrid from January: fines and exceptions IN MOTORPASIÓN Which cars will not be able to circulate on the M-30 in Madrid from January: fines and exceptions Pay to drive, a new possibility to further limit cars in cities This new Sustainable Mobility Law includes mandatory measures, such Cell Phone Number List as requiring municipalities with between 20,000 and 50,000 inhabitants to have simplified sustainable urban mobility plans. But also voluntary, such as the tax to circulate through the ZBE . In other words, this toll will not be mandatory, but the possibility opens up that the councils can apply it if they wish. ZBE Plaza Elíptica in Madrid Which cars will pay the urban toll? It depends on what each city council that wants to impose this circulation tax defines, in the style of European capitals like London.



The text stipulates that it may be applied to "vehicles that exceed the limits or maximum categories of free circulation" in the ZBE . That is to say, it will depend on what is determined by the municipal governments in these areas and, it is understood, in relation to the environmental label as is already the case in those that are active. For example, in the Madrid Central (ZBE Distrito Centro) of the capital, only ECO and ZERO cars can circulate, those without a label are prohibited (except residents of the area) and B and C cars can only access without going directly to a parking lot. . And in Barcelona, ​​where the entire city is a ZBE , those without a label cannot circulate (at certain times and days). Thus, to give an example, in the central ZBE of Madrid a toll could be imposed on cars B and C in case they do not go to a parking lot and merely want to circulate in the area.