Route nationale 17

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The Route nationale 17, or RN17, is a trunk road (nationale) in France connecting Paris to the frontier with Belgium.

[edit] Paris to Senlis (0km – 31km)

The road starts north of Paris as a branch of the RN2, opposite the Airport Paris-Le Bourget, and heads north east as the Av du Mai 1985 and then Route de Flandre. The road skirts the western edge of the Airport Charles de Gaulle, crosses the RD104 and then through open countryside.

After the village of Survillers the road enters the Parc Naturel Régional de Oise Pays de France. The road now passes through the Forêt du Chantilly before reaching the Cathedral City od Senlis.

[edit] Senlis to Arras (31km to 162km)

At Senlis there are junctions with the RN330, RN324 and A1 autoroute. The road heads north through the Forêt d’Halatte crossing the River Oise at Pont Saint Maxence crosses marsh and woodland before open countryside. There is a junction with the RN31 (E46) between Beauvais and Compiègne. The road then passes the villages of Estrées Saint-Denis and Cuvilly passing the grounds of the Chateau de Tilloloy. The road crosses the autoroute and heads round the village of Roye. The bypass runs next to wargraves on the bank of the River Avre.

The RN17 then crosses the A29 autoroute (E44) and then the RN29 before entering the Somme river valley. The road crosses the river at Péronne and continues north over World War 1 battlefields passing French, British and German cemetaries. The road crosses the A2 autoroute and the A1 again before reaching the town of Bapaume. The road then continues north to Arras.

[edit] Arras to Frontier with Belgium (162km to 227km)

At Arras the road has junctions with the RN25, RN39 and A26 autoroute (E15) to Calais. The road crosses the river Scarpe and heads north over the Vimy ridge past the war memorial to Canadian troops.

The road then reaches the industrial town of Lens, the landscape is dotted with soil heaps from the coal mines nearby. In Lens through traffic takes the A211 autoroute and then the A21 autoroute. The town is also served by the RN43 and RN47. Thereafter the RN17 heads north east to Carvin and leads onto the A1 autoroute (E17). The old RN17 is now the RD925 through Seclin into the City of Lille.

After Lille the road heads north from the City Centre passing west of Tourcoing and onto Halluin where the road crosses into Belgium over the river Leie where the road becomes the RN32.

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