The implementation of the low emission zone (ZBE), which will restrict the access of vehicles without environmental distinctive to the center of Saragossa, should be ready before the end of the year. That is the commitment he acquired from the capital of the capital if he did not want to lose the state aid to maintain the bonus in the price of public transport.
The socialist councilor, Chema Giral, has questioned this Thursday in the Environment and Mobility Commission that the City Government will be able to comply with the deadlines. The company in charge of putting the surveillance cameras that will guarantee the operation of the restricted area is still without awarding. Giral accuses the PP of having wanted to “delay as much as possible” its implementation. “They have been doing anything for three years because they have a problem with their Vox partner, a denialist of climate change,” said the councilor.
The truth is that the implementation of the ZBE in Zaragoza was raised by March 2026 and, the advance of its premiere to December, is for the team of Natalia Chueca a “imposition of the Government of Pedro Sánchez”. However, the Socialists consider that the Popular Party has deliberately postponed this measure by Vox pressures and had no choice but to “reculate” to take advantage of transport aids.
Chema Gira is councilor of the PSOE in the City Council. Photo: PSOE
“They have not done it for poor management, but because they have never wanted to implement it. They are filled with their mouths that Zaragoza has to be heated neutrally, but at the time of truth, you have not carried out,” said Chema Giral. The socialist mayor has reproached the PP to “talk about Sánchez blackmail” when, according to Giral, “we were a year and a half with administrative triquiñuelas and a provisional ZBE for which they did nothing except to put some traffic plates. They postponed the approval of the mobility ordinance for its full entry into force.”
From the first opposition group they express their concern about “the difficulties that the PP government will now have to launch the ZBE, since the company in charge of putting the cameras is the same as the regulated parking lot and is still without awarding. Are they going to run it in a month?, Has asked Giraral.
The City Council defends: “We fulfill in a timely manner”
He Zaragoza government He assures that he is fulfilling “in a timely manner” with all the commitments acquired. Those of Chueca point to the PSOE to “forget” that they have received the “express recognition” of the central government in this matter “stated that the implementation process is correct.”
The Councilor for Mobility, José Miguel Rodrigo, has accused Giral for “criticizing without arguments an exemplary action of this government team, which has done its duties and has done them well.” Rodrigo believes that the socialist councilor what he intends is to “eclipse” another of his successes and ensures that Zaragoza is “reference” in the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Regions.
