Paris (AFP)

Artificial intelligence to clean the streets, an urban walk, English from kindergarten or financial audit of the City of Paris: the ex-LREM candidate for municipal elections, Cédric Villani, is setting out his measures for Paris, before a meeting on Wednesday evening.

Cleanliness: artificial intelligence to the rescue

In order to "transform and modernize the cleaning service", the mathematician wants to rely "on artificial intelligence to automatically spot soiling and maintenance defects".

He takes the example of Lausanne (Switzerland), which uses "software trained to recognize dozens of categories of waste thanks to the cameras installed on cars and bicycles in the city, and makes it possible to establish an inventory of fixtures in real time , and to optimize the routes and frequency of cleaning, street by street ".

Environment: 5 billion euros

Cédric Villani promises to "devote 5 billion euros to the green, ecological and social transition by associating the best scientists in the world".

He also wants to "develop around forty peaceful, pedestrianized, planted areas" and "create three large planted walks including a metropolitan that will link the Stade de France to the Seine via the reopened Canal St-Martin".

He wants to "multiply the renovation of energy buildings" by targeting in priority "thermal strainers" in low-cost housing and condominiums, with "assistance up to 2,000 euros for co-owners".

To "appease public space", he promises "strategic planning of construction sites", "stopping major concrete projects, combating advertising pollution (and) clearing of sidewalks".

Transport: bicycle and metro

Artificial intelligence will also be at the service of Parisians to "coordinate fires, smooth traffic, anticipate traffic jams and reduce transport times".

"The main decarbonized means of transport in Paris is not the bicycle, it is the metro", underlines the candidate, who wishes "to invest in the metro to modernize it, to automate it", in priority the lines 7, 8 and 13.

Mr. Villani wishes to "develop new mobility with a plan of 400 million euros for the construction of Parisian and metropolitan cycle paths and secure parking lots (...) to develop pedestrian and bicycle crossings over the ring road and to co-finance suburban cycle paths ".

Housing: 290,000 social housing

Based on the observation that "240,000 dwellings are withdrawn for rental" (vacant dwellings and second homes), the mathematician wants to tighten the taxation "on second homes" and "identify with owners what drives them not to rent".

Cédric Villani promises "290,000 social housing units", created "as a priority by preemption in" less provided "districts such as the 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th and 15th centuries. And "about 1% of these dwellings will be devoted to people on the street".

Objective: to develop better social housing on the Parisian territory to reach the rate of 25% of the SRU law.

City finances: stop debt

Cédric Villani wants to launch a "financial audit" at the town hall of Paris, whose debt stood at nearly 6 billion at the end of 2019.

It is necessary "to overhaul the organization of the Paris administration and manage the finances of the city", estimates the candidate who also promised "the non-replacement of retirements and the application of the 35 real hours from 2021 ". He figures "the gain at 2,000 full-time jobs".

Family and education: welcome from 2 years

He wants to set up a collective reception of children, from the age of 2 years in priority neighborhoods, and develop aid "so that each child can go on vacation".

"In kindergarten, English and music (...) will be privileged", promises the candidate; and "recreational science workshops" will be offered in elementary school.

He wants to develop a "passport to culture and the arts". "Routes" will be offered on "various themes (such as) heritage, architecture, town planning, visual arts, live performance, music, books, cinema, animated images", at the rate of "a route by year "and per student.

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