Faced with the energy crisis, the town hall of Paris, which has been turning off its buildings earlier since the beginning of autumn, will ask for the extinction of illuminated advertisements in its streets at night from December 1st. The text, voted in the municipal council on Wednesday October 12 by the left-wing majority and the Macronist opposition, despite its criticisms, precedes a government decree published in early October. The latter provides for an extinction throughout the territory from June 1, 2023.
It’s a “first and big step forward”, greeted the president of the environmental group, Fatoumata Koné. The town hall asks Clear Channel, its private operator of information panels with electric or electronic display, digital, backlit or scrolling advertising panels, to turn off all these devices from 11:45 p.m. to 6 a.m., according to the deliberation.
Signs intended for information related to public services, road safety and access to rights will be an exception, specifies the text. The JC Decaux company, which manages the Morris columns, the backlit panels of the press kiosks and the passenger shelters, is asked to turn them off from 1 a.m.
The town hall also asks transport operators in the region to align themselves with the extinction at 11:45 p.m. for the luminous panels of metro stations, RER, stations and bus shelters, “according to service hours”. If Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), the regulatory authority for transport in the Ile-de-France region, does not participate in this “collective effort”the City will use “all penalty levers, even the suspension of part of its contribution to IDFM”says the text.
From November 1, the City also wants all economic players (shops, offices) or associations to turn off their signs and screens “as soon as these organizations cease their daily activity and these premises are no longer occupied”under penalty of verbalization and administrative sanctions.