5th Grade Vehicles Violating Traffic Restrictions Caught 57,527 Times in Two Months... Enforcement Vehicles Down 88% Year-on-Year

From December 2020 to January 2021, enforcement vehicles decreased by 87.8% compared to the previous year... Vehicles operating with installed devices increased by 74.4%
Penalty cancellations for low-emission measures until November this year

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] Since December last year, during the Seoul Metropolitan Government's seasonal fine dust management period, the operation of Grade 5 vehicles that have not undergone low-emission measures has been restricted. On the 8th, Seoul announced that a total of 17,939 vehicles were caught violating the regulations over the past two months. Notably, 7,564 vehicles were caught multiple times, accounting for 42% of the total.

The total number of violations over the past two months was 57,527. By month, 29,984 cases were recorded in January, and 27,543 cases in December of last year. The number of Grade 5 vehicles restricted from operation averaged 1,403 per day over 41 days, showing an 87.8% decrease compared to 11,532 vehicles during the same period last year. This enforcement was conducted over 41 weekdays from December 1, 2020, to January 31, 2021.

During the same period, the number of vehicles equipped with Diesel Particulate Filters (DPF) increased by 74.4%, from an average of 11,766 vehicles per day to 20,523. Among the Grade 5 vehicles caught, 1,079 vehicles (6%) took low-emission measures such as DPF installation or early scrapping after being caught. Seoul plans to cancel all fines imposed for violations of the seasonal management operation restrictions on vehicles that complete low-emission measures by November and will refund any payments already made.

Seoul is also continuously guiding repeatedly caught vehicles to promptly take low-emission measures. The relevant local governments have been requested to prioritize support for low-emission measures for violating vehicles.

Lee Sa-hyung, Director of Vehicle Pollution Reduction at Seoul City, said, “Since the budgets for low-emission projects in each city and province may be exhausted early, we urge owners of Grade 5 vehicles who have not yet taken low-emission measures to do so quickly to avoid disadvantages from enforcement.”

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