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Munich: No driving bans for Euro 5 diesel vehicles - Speed limit of 30 km/h to help

Mayor Dieter Reiter from the SPD is determined to avoid further restrictions for drivers and, together with the CSU, decides against his own coalition partner, the Greens, to introduce a speed limit of 30 km/h on a section of the Mittlerer Ring. Not only is it questionable whether this is legally permissible, but also whether it will reduce emissions.

With hands and feet, Mayor Dieter Reiter in Munich is resisting further driving bans for older diesel models of the Euro 5 standard. | Photo: dpa/Sven Hoppe
With hands and feet, Mayor Dieter Reiter in Munich is resisting further driving bans for older diesel models of the Euro 5 standard. | Photo: dpa/Sven Hoppe
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Johannes Reichel

Instead of a diesel ban including Euro 5 models, the Munich city council now wants to try to comply with the nitrogen oxide limits by introducing a speed limit of 30 km/h on a section of the road, "provided this is legally possible", as it was restrictively stated from the mayor's office. The municipality was obligated to do this by the Higher Administrative Court after the Deutsche Umwelthilfe had sued for it. The court had actually explicitly insisted on new driving bans and did not allow any revision. The city leadership now wants to take action against the latter, and Mayor Reiter wants to have a revision examined.

In doing so, Reiter's party SPD agreed with the opposition CSU against their own coalition partner, the Greens, who had insisted on expanding the existing zonal diesel driving ban. This was also the proposal of the responsible environmental officer Christiane Kugler. She, along with mobility officer Georg Dunkel, pointed out that implementing a speed limit of 30 km/h on a major road like the Mittlerer Ring would require clear justification that the measure is effective. This is not the case with a speed limit of 30 km/h; studies show the opposite.

Translated automatically from German.
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