ThoseOzone peak in Geneva
Stick’Air device: “half of the drivers are not aware”
Since this Wednesday, motorists must have bought and stuck their “Stick’Air” sticker, which allows, or not, to circulate in Geneva. Chaotic report in Frontenex, where the police operated control.
Control of the municipal police of Colagny, Wednesday morning, on the Plateau de Frontenex.
CATHY MACHEREL
- The Geneva police control the Stick’Air vignettes during a peak of pollution.
- Many drivers ignore the obligation to have this antipollution macaroon.
- The agents do prevention today but will give fines tomorrow.
- More than 1000 orders of stickers were recorded in twelve hours.
Unusual cap on the Frontenex set, this Wednesday at 8 am on Wednesday. “The Stick’Air vignette?” But what is that, “wonders a motorist. At the wheel of her small car, she patients in the long line of cars that formed, towards the city.
The driver does not understand what is going on. He is told that the police have operated the second control of history since the introduction of the macaroon which categorizes vehicles according to their degree of pollution. Only the least polluting cars (category 1.2 and 3) can enter Geneva in the event of a pollution peak. The implementation of the system had been Decided Tuesday afternoon by the canton in view of the ozone concentrations in the air.
Little informed drivers
Like this lady, many car drivers but also two motorized wheels do not have sesame allowing them to enter the defined perimeter. “I would say that half of the people do not have it, some are not at all aware,” said one of the three municipal police officers from Colagny, in office to operate the controls. They arrived at 7:15 a.m. and will stay there an hour and a half.
Consequences: dozens of scooters are parked on the side and buy their macaroon online, cars are forced to turn around. Maybe to park outside the scope, and take the bus, which is free today. It’s a bit of a bazaar …
In the long queue, around 8:30 a.m., another driver gets angry: “I bought this thumbnail for a long time, but I don’t know where I put it. Frankly, I have to go to work, there, they exaggerate! ” Scooter drivers stop and come to find out to the agents about the steps to follow to obtain the famous sticker.
“We are struck by the lack of information, it has been a while since the system is in force,” says one of the agents. Since 2020, but people, obviously, have forgotten this affair a little. It is true, remember, that at the time of their introduction, the Stick’Air were out of stock; There had also been remedies against the measure, enough to lose your Latin.
Prevention, for the time being
This Wednesday morning, the agents decided to do prevention. But from tomorrow, they warn motorists, they will amend. Positive thing, notes the chief of the agents: “Over an hour and a half of control, we have not seen any vehicle with a 4 or 5 sticker, therefore polluting vehicles which would not have the right to enter the perimeter. You have to believe that the car fleet has renewed well. ” Many French plates cars have the Crit’Air sticker, also valid in Geneva. “The French may be more used to this system in force in many regions,” comments an agent.
Geneva macaroons can be Bought onlinein service stations, but also at the automotive office, where there is also a tail this Wednesday morning. Two counters have been expressly opened for the sale of Stick’Air, about fifteen people are waiting. Jean-Jacques, his sesame finally in hand, says that he discovered the info by reading the Geneva Tribune This very morning: “I had the macaroon on my old car, but I now have a brand new car, and I forgot to buy it.”
Online, on the dedicated site of the canton, some 1037 orders had been recorded between Tuesday 8 p.m. and Wednesday 9 a.m. While waiting to receive the sticker, the payment receipt transmitted by email can be used to temporarily justify the vehicle classification in the event of control.
“But it is well temporary,” insists the chief of the municipal police officers of Colagny, in Frontenex. Because to facilitate controls, the macaroon must be stuck on the windshield. There, the controls for vehicles without sticker glued to the windshield easily taken a minute each time, it lengthens the queue! ”
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