Socialist Nathalie Appéré begins her second term as mayor of Rennes this Friday. - DAMIEN MEYER / AFP

  • Reelected hands down on Sunday evening with more than 65% of the vote, Nathalie Appéré begins her second mandate this Friday as mayor of Rennes.
  • In the program which she will implement with her environmental allies, the elected socialist has notably committed to drastically reducing the place of advertising in the city.
  • It also plans to make the fight against gender-based and sexual violence one of the strong axes of its mandate with several measures in this direction.

It is the big day for Nathalie Appéré who begins this Friday her second mandate as mayor of Rennes with the installation in the late afternoon of the municipal council. With her team, the elected socialist will have six years to implement her program rich with about 200 proposals, to which are added some concessions made to her environmental allies during the inter-round.

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During the municipal campaign in Rennes, there was a lot of talk about arming the municipal police, developing cycle paths, revegetating public space or building tall towers. However, other measures which were somewhat unnoticed in the debate are also planned during the mandate. 20 Minutes has listed some of them for you.

Billboards are in their last hours

The installation of around thirty digital billboards had created tensions in 2018 among the majority. Under pressure from environmentalists, Mayor Nathalie Appéré has committed to her new mandate to drastically reduce the place of advertising in Rennes. This will include “the total removal of 4x3 signs”, often accused of disfiguring the entrances to the city.

@MTheurier We will remove the large 4x3 billboards this year and the digital screens in 2022 # Advertising

- Choose ecology for Rennes (@Rennes_Ecologie) June 5, 2020

As part of the renewal of the public service delegation entrusted to Clear Channel, the digital panels will also be removed during the mandate. The municipality also promises to tighten the screw about the lighting of the windows and the luminous signs at night.

“Response courses” for women

The mayor of Rennes has promised to make the fight against gender-based and sexual violence one of the strong axes of his mandate. In this context, an anti-incivility brigade made up of municipal police officers will be created. She will notably be responsible for verbalizing those guilty of sexist contempt on public space.

Our project for a common horizon: a city of equality between women and men 🚺🚹 # PourRennes #Rennes pic.twitter.com/jI3WR1ayBB

- For Rennes with Nathalie Appéré (@PourRennes) March 8, 2020

To defend themselves, women will also be able to take part in “response-courses” against the physical and verbal aggressions offered by the city. A 24/7 reception center for women and their children who are victims of violence must also be created during the mandate.

Expanded transportation schedules in the evenings and weekends

What if buses and subways run all night, especially on weekends? This is already done on the Star network on the occasion of the Fête de la musique and for New Year's Eve. If the measure will of course not be generalized all week, the mayor of Rennes plans however to "widen the transport schedules in the evening, at night and at weekends ”. For the time being, buses and metros stop their service at 12:45 am from Sunday to Wednesday and at 1:45 am on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. With the entry into service of line B, now scheduled for spring 2021, these schedules could be even later even if no specific schedule has yet been set by the team of Nathalie Appéré.

During the mandate, an experiment for evening and overnight demand stops on the buses should also see the light of day. This measure will allow women to ask the driver to stop between two stops, as close as possible to their home, in order to prevent possible nocturnal attacks.

Holidays for all children

They are not yet of voting age. But children and adolescents have a certain weight in the Breton capital where one in two inhabitants is under 30 years of age. At the head of one of the youngest metropolises in France, Nathalie Appéré thus proposes the principle of a “city at the height of a child”. In addition to the construction of new crèches and schools, the mayor is committed to ensuring that "children who never leave are offered a holiday, especially with mini-stays in leisure centers".

Young start-ups will also be offered nature education workshops as well as the use of the Internet and social networks. In schools, snacks will also be provided free of charge to children who stay after class. Learning the French sign language in schools for deaf children will finally be implemented.

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