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In my quest to ask the most obscure questions on STW...
I recently return from holiday in France - flew into Toulouse and picked up rental car at airport. Car hire dude told me I didn't need to worry about taking car into Toulouse (the airport is outside the zone) but it didn't have a "Crit'air" sticker on windscreen.
Anyway, not wanting to incur any post holiday fines if I'd been given the wrong info, I navigated around the ring road and off to Carcassonne.
However, on my return, I needed to fill up the car with fuel and I'm not sure whether I mistakenly drifted into the low emission zone.
I didn't see any APNR type cameras but does anyone know anything about how the zone is enforced?
Fine would be €68 plus a €50 admin fee from Avis...
(Having difficult posting more than one image per post with text but first image is route I drove and the second is a shitty low res map of the emission zone)
The Critair implementations seem pretty confused (to me at least). This doesn't help you regarding Toulouse but I often drive through Rouen. We hve Critair stickers in the cars so we are complying but how they actually fine people who don't comply is a bit of a mystery. Coming into Rouen from the Calais direction there is a small sign, hard to read and easy to miss - if there are any others we've missed but?????
Coming into Rouen from the other direction (Evrereux, Dreux ) we haven't seen a single sign.
Had the same thought today as I was driving back from the Dordogne around Paris. The sat nav said something about the zone but I saw no signs. This was in my own car.
I don't believe they automatically snag you for a lack of crit air, I think (might be wrong) you have to be caught in person. if so you should be fine
Btw, when we got our Critair stickers we started looking at French registered cars to see if they had the stickers. From what we saw only about 50% of cars had them. Last week we had lunch with a French friend. He weas only vaguely aware of Critair and certainly had no sticker. This a man fairly recently retired from being a pilot with KLM and regularly flying out of Toulouse. He also has the occasional hospital appointment in Toulouse.... he said he thought he'd better go have a look t te Critair thing. he shrugged a bit and never seemed too bothered though.
Yeah you have to be stopped in person, it's not ANPR*
*Regular UK car through Paris
Thanks folks, seems like we should be ok as we weren't stopped