UK cars - where to put your Crit'Air sticker

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Another city joins the crit’air party, Annecy
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Surely that’s too high up the windscreen! It would obstruct her view. :astonished:

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:rofl: :rofl: AI strikes again… :wink: or is it another example of photoshop :rofl: :rofl:

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Town :face_with_hand_over_mouth: Though a nice town.

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It’s the Capital of the Haute-Savoie, so I think it may officially be a City.

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Interesting. Agen is the capital of Lot et Garonne and I never think of it as a city. It’s no more than a medium sized town.

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:rofl: :rofl: I think this is one situation where “size” doesn’t matter :rofl: :rofl:

well, not a lot anyway… :wink:

EDIT: Interestingly, this clip from the Agen official website calls Agen a City and a Town, all in the same paragraph.

L’identité agenaise

Riche et fière de son histoire, de son patrimoine et des parcours humains qui l’ont construite, Agen est une cité bimillénaire à l’identité bien affirmée. Découvrez tout ce qui a forgé l’identité de notre ville.

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It’s always been a woolly definition, hasn’t it. I think of Grenoble as a city for example. In the UK I think a city needs a cathedral, but I don’t know if that’s written down anywhere.

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We don’t make that distinction in French because it isn’t a distinction used in France. Cité is often now used more for big housing ensembles and has become a bit negative. Town/city is just ville/grande ville.

I expect Canadian French might well make a distinction we don’t here, because British English does. It doesn’t have much to do with size in the UK, Wells is a city (isn’t it?) on the strength of having a cathedral.

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I /We need to start calling Agen a city …

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Not since 1889 after which many towns, without a cathedral, were given city status.

It was a subject of local discussion when Milton Keynes got city status in 2022. I was very surprised to learn that St Albans didn’t become a city until late 1800s.

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let’s be typically French and call it whichever we fancy at the time… :rofl: :+1:

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Guildford has a cathedral, and a football club called “Guildford City”, but is still a town. :smiley:

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So are we now saying that the Crit’Air sticker should be displayed on the nearest cathedral?

And does one have to move it from (say) Rouen to Sees as one motors through La France Profonde?

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Only if they have LEZs or ULEZs.

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We got our Crit’Air stickers at the start and haven’t actually needed 'em yet…
Got 'em as we always enjoyed travelling and visiting/revisiting and at the small price… why wouldn’t one be prepared. :wink:

Now I’m in a bit of two minds, glad that more places are seeking to reduce pollution and sad that we’re no longer “the youngsters we once were” who would have used this news (Annecy) as a reason to go rushing to visit all these “clean air” places :rofl: :rofl:

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Religious buildings have their own “Cath’Air” sticker system - chapels are in category 1, small churches cat 2, larger churches cat 3, basilicas and monasteries cat 4, and cathedrals cat 5.

It’s based on the number of priests in attendance and how much noise pollution the congregation generates on average per year.

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It would be advisable to move it as one passes from one see to the next.

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…so long as the authorities can see the sticker, for which I refer the Honourable Member to my original post. :smiley:

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original post made in 1973 I believe (or am I exaggerating) :rofl: