We will have to take it easy on the accelerator this Friday. The Paris police headquarters has indeed announced the reduction of 20 km / h of the speed authorized in Ile-de-France, due to an episode of pollution with fine particles. This measure will be applied from “Friday February 10, and until the end of the episode, between 5:30 a.m. and midnight”, indicates the police headquarters (PP) in a press release. The maximum authorized speed is lowered to 110 km/h on the motorway, to 90 km/h on roads normally limited to 110 km/h and to 70 km/h on those usually limited to 80 km/h or 90 km/h. h.
Avoid heating with wood
Heavy goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes are obliged to circumvent the area via the Ile-de-France ring road. To reduce pollution by fine particles, the PP also prohibits the use of individual heating with supplementary or decorative wood, “which contributes the most to the emission of fine particles”.
Airparif, the association for monitoring air quality in Ile-de-France, forecasts for Friday an episode of “persistent” particle pollution (PM10), with an “exceeding of the information-recommendation threshold set at 50 μg/m3”.