The implementation of the concept in 2025 may enhance air quality and lessen traffic noise.
10 October 2023 at 18:55 was published.
As part of its effort to improve air quality and lessen traffic noise, Stockholm may ban gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles from key areas of the city center starting in 2025, according to the vice-mayor for transportation in the Scandinavian capital.
The plan establishes an economic zone that covers some of Sweden’s priciest office real estate as well as high-end shopping streets across 20 blocks of Stockholm.
The Green Party, a left-wing and socially conscious political group that controls the Stockholm City Council, hopes that the action will hasten the transition from combustion-engine vehicles to electronic ones.
” Today, the air in Stockholm causes infants to develop heart conditions and the old to pass away too soon.” It is an absolutely intolerable scenario, according to Green Party vice-mayor for transportation Lars Stromgren.
A so-called class-three environmental zone generally permits the operation of fully electric vehicles. For larger vans, where plug-in hybrid vehicles may be permitted by the legislation, there are exceptions.
Some vehicles, such as ambulances, police cars, and cars where the driver or passenger has a documented illness, are exempt from the rules.
After the first introduction, the economic zone will be further expanded, according to the Green Party.
The program, according to transportation companies, went very far, and the city should instead concentrate on investing more in energy charging points to effect volunteer change.
” We have reduced emissions by 34 % since 2010. The Swedish Confederation of Transport Enterprises, however, stated in a statement that the Green Party and their associates in Stockholm are currently in far too much of an hurried state.
The class-three economic zone may be introduced in Sweden for the first time in Stockholm.