Autoroute A 86
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The A 86 near Bobigny |
The Autoroute A 86 , also known as super-périphérique or Périphérique de l'Île-de-France , is a ring road around Paris. The ring closure was completed in January 2011.
At a distance between 8 km and 16 km from the central point of Notre Dame , the route leads around Paris with some corners. It forms the second ring between the congested inner ring road Boulevard Périphérique and the planned outer ring road Francilienne on the edge of the Île-de-France . The ring motorway with a total length of 79 km has been completed, the last 10 km long section in the western part leads as a "duplex" car tunnel the lanes over one another.
history
The urban motorway around Paris was planned between 1960 and 1965 as part of the PADOGG project ("Plan d'aménagement et d'organization générale de l'agglomération parisienne"). The plans for the A 86 at that time, however, met with resistance from the residents, who lodged numerous objections about possible emissions of noise and exhaust gases. Construction work began in 1968 on sections that belonged to National Road 186 . At the time of the oil crisis, however, construction was stopped again.
It was only later that the closure to a motorway ring was pushed forward again. Until 1994, the A 86 ran for 50 km from Nanterre to La Courneuve, from Bondy to Thiais and from Antony to Versailles. There were links in the Val-de-Marne (for example the Chevilly-Larue tunnel), in the Hauts-de-Seine department between Nanterre and Rueil-Malmaison and between Seine-Saint-Denis and Bobigny. By 2000 the motorway stretch had been extended to 64 km and with the opening of the Rueil-Malmaison connection to the A 13 at the end of June 2009, the motorway had grown to 69 km. The piece between the A 13 and Pont-Colbert (Jouy-en-Josas) remained. Originally announced for a (partial) opening in 2010, the completion of the construction work took until 2011.
Since the A 86 has long been congested in rush hour traffic, the expansion of the third Francilienne motorway ring is being pushed ahead.
particularities
The western part of Rueil-Malmaison to the A 13 is designed as a toll tunnel "Duplex A86". The 4.7 km long car tunnel has been open since the end of June 2008, in which the directional lanes are laid in a tube on two levels one above the other. Each tunnel section has a height of 2.55 m and two lanes plus emergency lanes - only cars with a maximum height of two meters are permitted, trucks and motorcycles are not allowed to use the tunnel. Later the car tunnel from the A 13 to Pont-Colbert will be extended to a total of 10 km. A second tunnel for trucks and other vehicles will connect Rueil-Malmaison directly (without exit on the A 13) over 7.5 km with the A 12 further west, from which one can drive again to the southern part of the A 86 via the N 12 . The car tunnel shortens the travel time from 45 to ten minutes and is the only toll route on the A 86 - there is a large bypass via the A 14 , A 12 and N 12 to the west. The toll for the entire section depends on the time and is between 1.50 (midnight to 6 a.m.) and 12.70 euros (as of 2018).
There are further tunnels at Bobigny and Antony. For the latter, an underground aqueduct, which was built for Catherine de Médicis in 1610, had to be destroyed - an information board at the south end informs motorists of this.
In the eastern part of the A86 runs on a section between Nogent-sur-Marne and Joinville-le-Pont together with the A4 . As there were only four lanes available in each direction in this common section (the A 4 joins with three lanes, the A 86 with two lanes), this "bottleneck" developed into a stagnation point. Another lane was added up to 2005, but these are only released if necessary, and there are plans to permanently increase the standard of the common section.
Web links
- Autoroute A 86 in German and French version of the SARATLAS
- Autoroute A 86 on WikiSara (French)
- Website for the west tunnel "Duplex A86" (French)
- Paris traffic information (French)
- Transport project Duplex (English)