The notice period for passenger cars with environmental classification A that are not registered and do not pay the Mechanical Traction Tax in Madrid that access the M-30 or inside it ends this Monday, January 15, at 00:00 hours, at which point those who access those areas will begin to be fined.
Since last September 15, 2023, Madrid City Council has been informing drivers of vehicles with the aforementioned characteristics intercepted by the cameras of the Madrid Low Emission Zone (ZBE) about the prohibition of entering the M-30 or its ring road, the Consistory recalls in a note.
In these four months of notice period, the number of unauthorized accesses has gone from 2,039 potential sanctions registered between September 15 and 30 to 1,883 last December; In global terms, of the 3.1 million accesses that occur every day, improper accesses represent 0.1%.
After the modification of the Law on Traffic, Circulation of Motor Vehicles and Road Safety, improper access to Madrid ZBE, as well as to the Low Emission Zones of Special Protection (ZBEDEP), has gone from assuming a minor infraction of 90 euros , which could be 45 for prompt payment, to a serious traffic penalty with a fine of 200 euros, which would be 100 for prompt payment, currently.
In parallel, the Madrid City Council has reported that, also as of January 15 at 00:00, the four-month notice period established by the Madrid City Council from the activation of the multipoint section radars installed ends. in both directions of Sinesio Delgado street, which become the longest in Madrid and limit the speed to 50 kilometers per hour.
From that moment on, drivers who exceed the permitted speed will be fined, according to the Road Safety Law, with serious or very serious penalties ranging between 100 and 600 euros and the loss of between 2 and 6 points on their driving license. drive.
The four-month notice period, which began on September 15, 2023, has informed by letter of the infraction committed, which so far has not led to the payment of the fine, at a time in which it has been reduced by one 66.7% the number of violations committed and notified, which has dropped from the 843 registered between September 15 and 30 to 281 in December.
The radar covers two sections: one in the direction of Ciudad Universitaria from the Piedrafita de Cebrero roundabout, at the height of the Ganapanes sports area, until shortly before the intersection with Miraflores Avenue, with the intermediate control point at the height from the intersection of Valdeverdeja street, and another in the Castellana direction, which starts from the intersection of Sinesio Delgado with Avenida de Miraflores, ending shortly before reaching the Piedrafita de Cebrero roundabout and the intersection of Sinesio Delgado with Doroteo Benache as intermediate.
The objective of the radar is “to reduce the speed on the controlled route to reduce the accident rate and guarantee the safety of citizens” and responds to “a neighborhood demand submitted to the Moncloa-Aravaca District Council,” says the City Council in a note. .
