Beijing to ban old cars on polluted days
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BEIJING will next year ban highly polluting old cars from being driven whenever air quality alerts warnings are issued in the city or neighboring regions, the city’s environmental protection bureau said yesterday.
China has adopted various measures over the years to reduce the blankets of smog which shroud many of the country’s northern cities in the winter, causing hazardous traffic conditions and disrupting daily life.
As of February 15, vehicles which don’t meet the government’s standard on emissions — in practice those which are more than 10 years old — will be banned in Beijing’s main urban area whenever orange or red alerts are issued in Beijing or neighboring Hebei province and Tianjin City, the bureau said. Vehicles breaking the restrictions will be fined 100 yuan (US$14.50) every four hours they are on the road.
Cars at the National 1 or National 2 emissions standards, which the rules are aimed at, only account for 8 percent of the cars in the city, but they account for more than 30 percent of smog causing nitrogen oxide emissions, the bureau said.
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