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Visiting The Netherlands next month. Planning to hop over the border and visit Dusseldorf on a Sunday.
I used to live in NL a few years back, and occasionally rented a car and drove into Germany. Sometimes the rental car had an Umwelt sticker, sometimes not. If it didn't, I'd still drive into big cities, but would take care to only park in private lots/garages, not on the street where a parking warden could check for Umweltzone stickers. Never had any problems.
Is it likely that I could still get away with this, or has enforcement changed within the past few years? (ie do police actually pull over and ticket cars for driving without an Umweltzone sticker?)
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Is it likely that I could still get away with this, or has enforcement changed within the past few years? (ie do police actually pull over and ticket cars for driving without an Umweltzone sticker?)
Yes. still not allowed to be in an "Umweltzone", without the sticker.
Umweltzonen, green zones etc. should have been a pan-European project so that non-German cars would not be discriminated.
I think it should be safe risking it, especially on a Sunday. I have never seen police checking on cars entering an Umwelt zone. But I too would park the car in a car park.
On my last car I replaced my windscreen after accidentally putting a windsurfer mast through it. I glued the new one in and never got around to replacing the sticker. Drove that way for two years without any issue. I don’t go into the city’s that often but I never worried about it when I did. I have heard of people having more issues with the “Umweltzonen” in France.
Hopefully Hertz will give me a rental car with an Umweltzone sticker already on it - when I lived in NL previously, I had about a 50% success rate with this. Might help if I call the rental office a week ahead and mention that I'll be traveling to Germany.
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