• According to several Internet users, the Paris City Hall has passed a new market for street cleanliness which would reduce the cleaning of street furniture to a single annual visit.

  • However, according to the deputy of the Paris City Hall in charge of the file, it would be more of an addition, than a reduction in the number of passages.

  • Reports to the “Dans ma rue” application have not changed and can still be made.

Is the Paris City Hall running into a wall?

A wall that is not clean, would immediately add the opponents of Anne Hidalgo.

Latest controversy, the new cleaning market would be a "serious mistake", according to several Internet users on Twitter.

Since November 1, he "only plans an annual tour in each street with regard to street furniture (signs, traffic lights, electrical cabinets, street signs, etc.)", indicates the Internet user who notices however, “a notable improvement in processing times for wild postings and graffiti” for several months.

But that was before.

According to the Internet user, the new market would be a huge failure for the cleanliness of the streets and the problem would be linked to “budgetary savings”.

To better understand the ins and outs of this new contract described as a strategy of chaos, we went to meet Colombe Brossel, the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of the cleanliness of public space.

We have also joined the user association "Dans ma rue", which brings together the contributors of the eponymous application which allows Parisians to report anomalies on the road.

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Yes, a new contract was signed in 2022 and it has been effective since mid-November.

But the change is not as radical as what the Internet user presents.

There is not a before and after call for tenders.

Previously, users of the Parisian road could easily report anomalies in the public space, via the “Dans ma rue” application.

"A new specific tab in the "graffiti" category allows Parisians to report hateful inscriptions in the streets of the City so that they are erased as soon as possible.

The application allows in a few clicks and a photo to inform the managing services, ”explained the site of the City of Paris at the time.

With each report, a team was therefore (normally) dispatched to the scene.

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François Louis, director of the association of users of the "Dans ma rue" application, was consulted prior to the call for tenders, which was to be renewed after four years of service.

“This renewal was necessary because it was necessary to improve the market and secure it.

Since 2018, there were a lot of amendments that had been passed and the market was becoming a bit misshapen,” explains the director of the association.

In all, five lots were awarded to three providers.

You may have noticed: since this morning the #DansMaRue nomenclature has changed slightly.



Stickers now report in the same item as graffiti!

This change reflects the entry into force of a brand new market.

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— Association of users of DansMaRue (@audmr) November 15, 2022

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“A contribution to the market”

But then what is the problem with the new market?

According to Internet users, the cleaning has been reduced to an annual visit, which would leave less and less time for the dedicated teams to deal with the incivilities encountered.

But according to Colombe Brossel, it is rather an addition that did not exist before.

"It does not detract from the fact that we can ask for an additional intervention," reassures the assistant.

“But at least once a year there will be a cleaning.

It is a contribution to the market”.

Internet users can therefore breathe: if they see graffiti on an electrical cabinet, for example, the incivility can always be reported.

Other improvements should be noted, both in substance and in form, assures the elected Colombe Brossel.

With the new market, a new mechanism for the territorialization of actions is being put in place within the arrondissements, which will now be responsible for managing the places of intervention in terms of cleanliness.

“The needs are not necessarily the same depending on the borough.

The goal is therefore to give them more resources, ”says the deputy mayor of Paris.

More important places according to the boroughs

Another novelty applauded by the user association “Dans ma rue”: the processing time for reports, which has been shortened from fourteen days to one week.

"It is the mayors of the boroughs who determine which routes are important enough to be dealt with in a week", underlines François Louis.

Another novelty: the teams on site will have to send a before/after photo to the report made.

“Permanently dedicated teams”

For François Louis, there is certainly a budgetary reason, but it is not necessarily linked to poor management of the file.

“The budget has not been reduced, on the contrary it has exploded because the reports have been more and more numerous”.

According to the deputy mayor of Paris, the budget has gone from 4 million euros to “less than 7 million”.

“It obviously has an impact on the level of interventions”.

According to the director of the association, this is more of an operational question.

Service providers will no longer have to deal with the report on a case-by-case basis, but will also be able to deal with incivilities found around.

“There could be a real cleaning of the district, by treating everything at the same time”, confirms Colombe Brossel.

So why only come once a year?

“They're not going to take a month and repaint all the furniture, it's going to be organized on a rotating basis.

Teams will be permanently dedicated to repainting the furniture,” concludes the latter, who believes that the new market will also evolve over time.

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