Boulevard Périphérique

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The Boulevard Périphérique Extérieur near Porte Dauphine.
The Boulevard Périphérique Extérieur near Porte Dauphine.
Paris' Périphérique by night at Porte d'Italie (Paris is on the left side of the picture)
Paris' Périphérique by night at Porte d'Italie (Paris is on the left side of the picture)

Boulevard Périphérique is a ring road (French: périphérique) around Paris. It is a frequently congested stretch of 4- to 8-lane dual carriageway, and is one of the busiest freeway/motorways in Europe, with traffic between 1.1 and 1.2 million vehicles per day in 2002.

Travelling speed on the road is limited to 80 km/h (50 mph). It does not feature a hard shoulder, and gives priority to entering vehicles. It was built in the early 1970s on the empty space left abandoned after the destruction of the defense wall of Paris in the 1920s, and completed on April 25, 1973. It is the generally-accepted boundary between the city proper (approx. 2 million inhabitants) and the suburbs (more than 9 million inhabitants), as it is situated along Paris's administrative limit (excluding the Paris heliport and the outlying woods of Boulogne and Vincennes). It is commonly perceived as separating "the rich" inside the city proper from "the poor" of the inner suburbs, although this is a strong simplification of the actual facts.

The Périphérique is administered by the government of the city of Paris.

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[edit] Statistics

  • road
    • traffic in 2002: between 1.1 and 1.2 million vehicles per day: 89% light vehicles, 7% trucks, 4% motorbikes; 25% of the traffic in Paris.
    • average trip: 7 km (4.5 miles)
    • average speed on working days (7 h-21 h): 43 km/h (26 mph)
    • speed limit: 80 km/h (50 mph)
    • total length: 35.04 km

[edit] List of junctions

Junction number Junction name Outer lanes exits Inner lanes exits
1 Porte de Bercy A4 Quai de Bercy
2 Porte d'Ivry None Avenue d'Ivry
3 Porte d' Italie A6B Avenue d'Italie
4 Porte de Gentilly A6A Rue de l'Amiral Mouchez
5 Porte d'Orléans Avenue Briand Avenue de Maine
6 Porte de Châtillon Avenue P. Brossollette Avenue Jean Moulin
7 Porte de Vanves Rue Ernest Reugan Boulevard Brune
8 Porte Brancion Rue Jean Bleuzen Avenue Brancion
9 Porte de la Plaine Rue Camliant Place des Insurges de Varsovie
10 Porte de Sèvres None Rue Balard
11 Porte de Saint-Cloud Route de la Reine Avenue de Versailles
12 Porte Molitor Boulevard d'Auteuil Rue Poussin
13 Porte d'Auteuil A13 Rue Poussin
14 Porte de Passy Rue de l'Hippodrome Rue de Ranelagh
15 Porte de la Muette None Avenue H. Martin
16 Porte Dauphine Route de Suresnes Avenue Foch
17 Porte Maillot Avenue Charles De Gaulle La Défense
18 Porte de Champerret Boulevard Bineau Avenue de Villiers
19 Porte d'Asnières Rue Victor Hugo Rue de Tocqueville
20 Porte de Clichy Boulevard Jean Jaurès Avenue de Clichy
21 Porte de Saint-Ouen Avenue G. Péri Avenue de Saint-Ouen
22 Porte de Clignancourt Avenue Michelet Boulevard Ornano
23 Porte de la Chapelle A1 Rue de la Chapelle
24 Porte d'Aubervilliers Avenue Victor Hugo Rue d'Aubervilliers
25 Porte de la Villette Avenue Jean Jaurès Avenue de Flandre
26 Porte de Pantin Avenue Jean Lolive Avenue Jean Jaurès
27 Porte du Pré-Saint-Gervais Rue G. Péri Rue Haxo
28 Porte des Lilas Rue de Paris Rue de Belleville
29 Porte de Bagnolet A3 Rue Belgrand
30 Porte de Montreuil Rue de Paris Rue d'Avron
31 Porte de Vincennes Avenue de Paris Cours de Vincennes
32 Porte de Saint-Mandé Avenue Victor Hugo Avenue de Saint-Mandé
33 Porte Dorée Rue de Ceinture du Lac Daumsenil Avenue Daumesnil
34 Porte de Charenton Avenue de Gravelle Rue de Charenton

[edit] Other périphériques

The périphérique is the innermost of the Paris four ring road system, including A86 (to be completed in 2010) and the Francilienne (partial).

There are other périphériques in France, in Bordeaux, Caen, la Défense, Dijon, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Rennes and Toulouse, often called rocades.

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