“I prefer that rather than appearing in the ranking of cities where there is the most insecurity or the dirtiest”puts David Lamiray, mayor of Maromme, into perspective. Monday October 28, the Paysages de France association published the winners of its “Ugly France Prize 2024”. And the Seinomarine commune is included in the “Sign in danger” category, illustrated with a photo of a Decaux “4 by 3” panel stuck against the bridge of the Rue des Martyrs de la Résistance overlooking the Cailly. An ironic caption accompanies the photo: “Take advantage of this sign that “naughty” elected officials have decided to remove within two years. »
Little noticed
A sign that the few Marommais interviewed on Friday November 1st had never noticed and whose ugliness had never jumped out at them. “I like things that are moving”even explains Ciçek, a 53-year-old Turkish student at the University of Rouen, who is waiting for her bus at the stop located on the bridge and had not noticed the sign behind her.
Uglier elsewhere
A sign which must actually disappear since the adoption, on April 15, 2024, of the local intermunicipal advertising regulations, which provides for the ban on equipment of this size in the Metropolis. “Advertisers have two years to dismantle them”details David Lamiray who rewinds: “when I was elected mayor [en 2008]Maromme had no local settlement. We started working on the subject, hired a firm, but the NOTRe law arrived in 2014 and entrusted this competence to the Metropolis, which wanted to harmonize practices at the level of the 71 municipalities. Then there was Covid…”. And to conclude: “There are much uglier signs than that and I know some”.
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