The decision of the mayor of Badalona, Xavier García Albiolnot to implement, for now, a low emissions zone (ZBE) in his municipality he has generated a barrage of reactions. In every sense. This Wednesday we have to add to the RACCthan in the presentation of a survey, which precisely deals with the ZBE of Barcelona, has contributed his point of view to questions from journalists. The director of the Mobility area of the automobile club, Cristian Bardajíhas avoided commenting on the council’s decision, but has prescribed that the municipality, when it takes the step, do so “in harmonious manner with the regulations already in force“, so that the driver who comes from Mataró and goes to Esplugues does not encounter two environmental umbrellas with different restrictions.
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“Badalona can legitimately make the decision it considers, and the climate change law does not include a sanctioning regime. What can happen to it? That the Next Generation funds who requested for the ZBE have a committed application, and if it is not done, they will have to give up those funds,” Bardají summarized.
But beyond the controversy, the person in charge of Mobility at the RACC has recalled that the low emissions zone of Barcelona “became in an agreed manner“, with homogeneous rules and sanctions. Hence, their main concern is the “regulatory harmonization“, in addition to continuing “creating alternatives to the private vehicle“, an objective that, in his view, should prevail “before starting to impose restrictions.”