Interesting tidbit 3-25-15

Just a quick tidbit, 4 days ago Paris declared a pollution alert, what I thought was a cloudy mist was particulates (ugh!) but they also banned drivers with license plates ending in even numbers from driving within the Perpherique, had it continued odd numbers would have been banned the next day but thankfully it subsided.  As we rode the bus downtown there were several police checkpoints set up in various roundabouts where they were stopping and ticketing drivers with wrong numbered plates.   Very interesting to see so many Mercedes drivers being pulled over, I wonder if they base the ticket fine on income like they do for speeding tickets in some of the European countries.