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A partnership with the private sector for public lighting is the "top"

The city has some problems with its lighting. Its rate of decay, estimated at 40% according to a technician, has nothing alarming, but the elect, following the mayor, Daniel Cambier, chose to attack the problem head on. Rather than spot repairs, they opted for a public-private partnership that will see by the end of the year. BY JOHN BISCHOFF


seclin @ lavoix dunord.fr

"When we lit illumination at the entrance of the Rue Pasteur, the breaker of the last house that was jumping," says, without laughing, Mayor Daniel Cambier. Vandenbroucke and Christian, second assistant, adds to the traffic lights that do not work: "We no longer find replacement parts and replacement would cost 90 000 euros." Elected representatives and technicians have therefore made the rounds of cabinets and culminated in the finding that most were outdated and even dangerous. "A rate of decay of the order of 40% which is not extraordinary "rating for its share of the firm Pascal Fourmeau Hexa Engineering.

"A reconstruction of the whole would" lead "our investment capabilities," then analyzes the mayor who refuses to make a simple "patching". Yet half of the cabinets should be replaced in the short term and nearly 80% of the 500 streetlights in twenty years to make way for cast aluminum structure whose lifetime is 25 to 30 years. An investment of more than one million, to include any surcharges on the Christmas lights, the enhancement of heritage, etc.., Which the municipality can not cope alone.

Politicians have therefore opted for a public-private partnership. This contract should be operational by the end of the year and corresponds to a charge transfer to a company. It can start work quickly while ensuring maintenance of equipment for twenty years in exchange for which the city will pay a kind of rent.

"In topdans twenty ... "The firm

Hexa Engineering has already conducted a preliminary study on street lighting. "In addition to setting standards, we also worked in the interests of sustainable development to make energy savings and uniform lighting to be the same everywhere for everyone, "says Pascal Fourmeau. He, too, noted the existence of some black spots at the crosswalks, the former railway track, the stadium ... which should be equipped with new lighting points.

This gloomy diagnosis made, five priorities have been established. The main security concerns. Read users' comfort with reduced shadows and the fight against light pollution. "The globes that light up the mosquitoes, it is not used much," laughs the technician Hexa Engineering of which evaluated at equal equipment, more than 2O% power savings achievable. Then, with a special database, municipal services will know what is happening on the network in real time. Finally, the duration of the contract provided for twenty years has a chapter devoted to maintenance. It will allow the city to be always "on top" in two decades in the form of Daniel Cambier. And residents of the street lights Pasteur receive year-end without the breakers trip ...