Infrastructure

Petite Ceinture

The Petite Ceinture line of Paris, commonly known as the Petite Ceinture, is a 32-kilometer double-track railway line encircling Paris inside the boulevards des Maréchaux.

Although it is still part of the national rail network, it is today unused over most of its route. Wikipedia ↗

Actually paid

12.6€M

Ordered (contract ceilings)

5.9€M

Also funded here

Organisations that receive a subsidy for an activity at this place without running it.

HALAGE →358 k €INTERFACE FORMATION →96 k €

Works paid for, year by year12.6 €M

2.6 €M

See the 10 works programmes in detail (2009–2017)

PETITE CEINTURE SECTEUR 15 - 1ERE PHASE3.8 €M PETITE CEINTURE2.6 €M PETITE CEINTURE SECTEUR 15 - 1ERE PHASE1.5 €M LA RECONQUETE DE LA PETITE CEINTURE1 €M PETITE CEINTURE SECTEUR 15 - 1ERE PHASE392 k €PETITE CEINTURE SECTEUR 15 - 1ERE PHASE391 k €PETITE CEINTURE SECTEUR 15 - 1ERE PHASE190 k €PETITE CEINTURE SECTEUR 15 - 1ERE PHASE177 k €PETITE CEINTURE SECTEUR 15 - 1ERE PHASE144 k €PETITE CEINTURE SECTEUR 15 - 1ERE PHASE40 k €

Payments traced in the City’s published accounts: detailed per works programme until 2017, then only for some large projects from 2019. Each line links to the online accounts.

Reconquête de la Petite Ceinture2022114 k €Poursuivre l'ouverture de la Petite Ceinture20241.6 €M Quartiers populaires : reconquête de la Petite Ceinture2024385 k €La reconquête de la petite ceinture2024126 k €Poursuivre l'ouverture de la Petite Ceinture202451 k €

Contracts signed for this place5.9 €M

Acbc Aménagement Promenade Petite Ceinture 20e lot 1ENTREPRISE DE TRAVAUX PUBLICS EGA · 20231.6 €M Travaux Promenade Petite Ceinture-Genie Civil/vrd-lot 1TERIDEAL · 20221.3 €M CSP EP Travaux Aménagement Petite Ceinture Troncon PC -lot 2:serrurerENVIRONNEMENT SERVICES · 2019612 k €

Show the 9 other contracts

Travaux d’espaces verts pour l’aménagement d’une promenade de la Petite Ceinture dans le secteur compris entre la gare Masséna et le pont de Patay à Paris 13eARTOPIA · 2025588 k €Travaux Promenade Petite Ceinture-Serrurerie/metall-lot 2SERRURERIE MENUISERIE · 2022558 k €Acbc Aménagement Promenade Petite Ceinture 20e lot 2ENVIRONNEMENT SERVICES · 2023500 k €/acbc Travaux Amenagmt Acces à la Promenade (petite Ceinture)URBAINE DE TRAVAUX · 2023180 k €Travaux de serrurerie et de métallerie sur la Petite Ceinture du 15e arrondissement.ENVIRONNEMENT SERVICES · 2024166 k €Fourniture et Pose Modules Préfabriqués Petite Ceinture 13EYVES COUGNAUD · 2019163 k €Msac-etude Tech Operat Aménagement Petite CeintureETUDES PLURIDISCIPLIN ET CONSEILS · 2023148 k €MET Aménagement Promenade Petite Ceinture 14,17,20ETUDES PLURIDISCIPLIN ET CONSEILS · 201652 k €Maîtrise d’œuvre relative à la construction d’un escalier métallique pour l’aménagement de la petite ceinture en promenade – Paris 19eWAO · 202418 k €

Maximum amount set in the contract, not the final spend: what was actually paid on each contract is not published by the City. Each line links to the contract record.

Key moments

MAY 2006The contractual framework that makes reconversion possibleA motion accompanying the City-RFF protocol concluded for five years: the Council noted that no railway project had been confirmed and called for the swift launch of the paths, gardens and recreational uses planned on the extra-width strips and the track bed.

JULY 2011First section placed under agreement, then developedSigning with RFF of a temporary occupancy agreement on the Balard-Olivier de Serres stretch (15th arrondissement) and extension of the framework agreement; the mayor of the 15th arrondissement recalled a consultation process that had brought together 300 residents, and a delay in the schedule.

NOVEMBER 2013The promenade open, its uses and its conflictsAn amendment to the 15th arrondissement's works contract for educational panels and a link to a tennis court; the debate covered graffiti, stones thrown at residents, the no-bin experiment, and the weekend closing time.

FEBRUARY 2018The City becomes manager, not just occupantA management-transfer agreement for PC 17: the City committed to taking on the maintenance, day-to-day management and surveillance of more than 16,000 m², which the mayor of the 17th arrondissement judged to lack any guarantee of resources.

NOVEMBER 2018The conflict over who decides on the built heritageA motion filed after the withdrawal of a plan for a City-SNCF simplified joint-stock company (SAS) on the future of the Petite Ceinture's buildings, which had been called a "cash machine" and criticized for its governance; unfavorable opinion from the executive.

APRIL 2025The contractual deadline and the figures in the recordGrants to the five integration associations that maintain the line, and a Communist motion on renewing the 2015 framework agreement, which had reached its term; the City announced 11.5 kilometers accessible in 2026 across 9 arrondissements.

See 2 more moments

OCTOBER 2012What consultation costs, and what delays itA topical question on the consensus conference, adopted a year earlier and still not launched: 80,000 euros had been entered in the supplementary budget for project owner assistance, after a projection had been brought down from 150,000 euros.

SEPTEMBER 2019The rules of use for a deliberately bare siteRefusal to allow leashed dogs on the coulée verte Pereire, opened in August: the deputy mayor stood by the choice not to add more bins, ashtrays and benches, in order to preserve the site's character.

AI reading of 43 documents out of the 642 returned by the search — each line links to its deliberation.

In the Municipal Bulletin

In the official municipal bulletin, the Chemin de fer de Ceinture appears mainly through its points of contact with the road network. In July 1894, the Council examined an additional contribution from the City toward removing the line's level crossings, between the Charonne tunnel and the Seine; Mr Vauthier spoke on the matter. In March 1923, a deliberation concerned covering the line on rues Sorbier and de la Bidassoa, with a view to laying out a square, for a sum in francs. In April 1932, Mr Lajarrige drew the Administration's attention to the bridges carrying the line over rues de Cambrai and de Flandre. Over nearly forty years, the line thus came up in session less for its traffic than for its crossings with the street: level crossings, covering, bridges.

Read the 3 citations in the municipal bulletin archives (Gallica)

1894“ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTION FROM THE CITY TOWARD THE REMOVAL OF LEVEL CROSSINGS ON THE CHEMIN DE FER DE CEINTURE BETWEEN THE CHARONNE TUNNEL AND THE SEINE. Mr Vauth…”

1923“154. — Covering of the Chemin de fer de Ceinture, rues Sorbier and de la Bidassoa, with a view to laying out a Square … francs for covering the railway”

1932“Lajarrige. — Rues de Cambrai and de Flandre are crossed by bridges over which the Chemin de fer de Ceinture runs … honor of drawing the Administration's attenti…”

Account written by AI from the selected extracts of the city’s official bulletin — each extract links to the scanned page on Gallica.

Sources

Conseil de Paris (Débat-Délibs) ↗ · Bulletin municipal officiel (Gallica/BnF) ↗ · CA annexes, Ville de Paris · Wikipédia ↗

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