About 250 projects, spread over 17 districts of Paris to accentuate the place of pedestrians, cyclists and vegetation, in a coordinated manner with those of the concessionaires (transport, water, gas, electricity), began to be launched in January.
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“There will be a lot of them in the summer, it will last about fifteen months”
, Jacques Baudrier, deputy (PCF) for public construction of the PS mayor Anne Hidalgo, told AFP on Thursday, after a progress report. on the first “Embellish your neighborhood” projects, which in turn concern a single sector per borough. The Paris City Hall is devoting around 100 million euros, or 5.5 million per district, to this first series of works which should be completed in the summer of 2023 in these 17 districts.
At the same time, consultations with the residents of the nine districts of the second wave, including the very touristy Montmartre, will begin between February and April, for a start of work at the end of the year and a budget of 55.5 million euros.
For the districts of the third phase, Jacques Baudrier wishes to
“advance the consultation to the end of 2022 in order to finish as much work as possible before the Olympic Games”
.
"Paris is getting a makeover"
Development of squares, cycle paths, "school streets", streets made pedestrian, planting 50 to 100 trees in each sector:
"district by district, Paris is getting a makeover"
, affirms the town hall which wants with this approach
" offer better visibility"
as to the nuisances generated by the works and avoid
"as much as possible"
that the redeveloped area is
"reopened"
by the concessionaires in the following 4 or 5 years.
For this,
“all the dealers come before”
the development work of the City, wishes Jacques Baudrier who is satisfied to have at this stage 95% of the sites of the operators well coordinated. Even if
"there are still 98 construction sites"
to shift over time,
"pooling is progressing"
, he rejoices.
According to data from the town hall, there are currently 5,200 construction sites in the capital, of which only 11% are managed by the City, 28% by its concessionaires and the majority (60%) by third parties.
On the other hand, the surfaces managed by the City are the most important.
Before her re-election in 2020 and her presidential candidacy, Anne Hidalgo, criticized for the number of construction sites underway in the capital, had recognized a
"real embarrassment".
