The visitor who would venture to walk through the alleys and streets of the old popular neighbourhoods of the city of El-Jadida will notice the state of advanced dilapidation in which they find themselves. These streets only have their names to highlight them, because in everyday life, it is a distressing decor that they offer to the view. The roadway is completely degraded, with enormous crevices that turn into puddles of water in the rainy season. And the asphalt operation that was recently started to enhance the image of El-Jadida only touched a few places in the city centre, and not those of the Portuguese city, El-Kalaâ, Somic, Sid Daoui, Lalla Zahra, Lahlali, Ben Driss, Moulay Ahmed Tahiri, Sfa which are among the oldest neighbourhoods of El-Jadida. These were completely ignored by the officials.

The inhabitants wonder why these neighbourhoods are neglected by the elected officials. Indeed, by travelling through the main arteries of these neighbourhoods, one notices that most of the roads are broken or in constant degradation. The showcase policy is still in force among these officials. We embellish the facades and we completely forget these remote neighbourhoods where no official goes.

Worse still, when the inhabitants of these neighbourhoods complain about it, by calling on one of the elected officials, the municipal services send agents to fill these crevices and other holes with sand and a little gravel, which, in reality, is only DIY when it would be necessary to carry out asphalt work, more sustained than this filling which does not hold for long and is damaged with the first rains.

At the level of a few places in these alleys and streets, public lighting is also lacking, the few existing street lamps do not manage to light all the streets. To such an extent that it is not recommended to venture there at nightfall.

On the other hand, the residents of these neighbourhoods wish that the municipal services, directly concerned by the problem, think about remedying this deficiency. They have complained several times that "the pipes of the sewage network are old and defective. We only apply the filling policy here and there..." This is why it happens that a sewer bursts and spills onto the public highway, with the deplorable consequences that result from it, notably the bad odours that emanate from it and the bacteriological risks due to the lack of hygiene.

This situation therefore calls for a real taking charge of these urban roads and puts back on the table the eternal question relating to the preventive maintenance of the urban road network particularly in densely populated residential cities.

Another hassle of most of these popular neighbourhoods of the city, the proliferation of occasional markets which generate a significant quantity of waste daily. If we add to this incivility and the shortcomings in terms of waste collection, the situation becomes totally unbearable for the inhabitants of these neighbourhoods. The observation is final and unanimous: the living environment continues to degrade, and this, continuously in recent months.

In short, these neighbourhoods and even the Portuguese city whose streets and alleys cross in a hybrid way require a re-examination of the urban rehabilitation plan.

Traders and inhabitants of Allal El-Kasmi square have urged, on many occasions, the city officials to implement the necessary means to overcome the invasive dirt, particularly at the market level, which is very busy during the day. Especially since the waste piles up dangerously and even overflows onto the pavements. Worse still, out of incivility, some traders and all informal merchants throw their waste everywhere after the passage of the collection trucks.

-* Recurring problems:

-* The streets and alleys of the Portuguese city have not been rehabilitated.

-* The rare road asphalting is done superficially.

-* Lighting is also lacking.

-* Street vendors dump their waste on the road after they pass.