Boulevard Périphérique - Paris (France)

Boulevard Périphérique | Porte d'Ivry 17/06/2017 09h51
On my way to Versailles on a Saturday morning via the 'périf'. When looking better at the sign pole alont the road the remnants of space invader PA_224 are still a bit visible.

Boulevard Périphérique
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. 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 25 April 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).

When travelling at the legal speed limit, it takes 26 minutes and 17 seconds to complete a full circuit (35 kilometers).
The périphérique, commonly referred to as "le périph" by Parisians, is administered by the government of the city of Paris. [Source: Wikipedia]

Roadtrip [9] 17/06/2017
On the planning of my last day of this holiday and roadtrip was my ride home via a hypermarket in the North of Paris, Valenciennes and Charleroi (for the one and only but huge space invader mural), Brussels, Antwerp and Utrecht.
I left hôtel Ibis Nogent-sur-Marne at 08h55 and went to Vincennes to photoflash space invader PA_1282 and I revisited Versailles to find the one I didn’t find yesterday (VRS_03). I spent only 40 minutes in Versailles and went via McDonald’s Créteil N6 to Carrefour Parinor to do my shoppings. Finally left Carrefour and the région Paris at 14h30 to go North. Via A1 (Autoroute du Nord) and A2 (Cambrai, Denain, Maubeuge). At 17h11 I arrived in Charleroi to photoflash CHAR_01. Had my last meal in a very nice and new McDonald’s restaurant in Charleroi and drove away here at 18h31. Had a break at Oosterhout at Andy from 20h41 till 21h55 and arrived finally at home at 22h48. Driving 643.4 kilometers in total today (291 km in France [45.3%], 234 in Belgium [36.4%] and 118 km in the Netherlands [18.3%])
The grand total this holiday and roadtrip was 3,688 kilometers.

Taken in: France / Île-de-France / Paris / Patay-Masséna (show map)

Taken on: June 17, 2017

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