Route départementale
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The Route départementale ( German Departement-Straße or Departementsstraße ) is a road category in France . These roads are intended for intermunicipal through traffic, partly also for long-distance traffic, and are managed by the departments . The numbering starts with a "D"; the abbreviation "RD" is also often used. The street signs are yellow with black letters.
National roads and motorways are of paramount importance to departmental roads in long-distance traffic . Occasionally, however, expressways are also assigned to the department roads.
Department roads thus roughly correspond to German district roads and state roads . An important difference to these for orientation as a road user, however, is that the street number is always shown on direction signs, place-name signs and other traffic signs along the course of department roads.
On January 1, 2012, department roads in and around Nice were declared route métropolitaine in the Alpes-Maritimes department . Until they are renumbered, these have an “M” instead of the “D” and the number of the department street from which they are derived. The signs are light blue with white lettering.
In the Gironde department, a cycle path that was laid out on an old railway line has a department road number.
history
On the occasion of the French Revolution on December 22, 1789, the departments were formed. Legislation of the French Ministry of Transport of December 16, 1811 and January 17, 1813 began to divide the roads into three classes. First class included the Routes impériales and the Routes départementales .
In the course of several reforms, most recently by government decree of December 5, 2005, numerous roads and sections of route that had previously been routed as national routes were given over to the départements and thus become departmental roads. The resulting change in the street number was i. d. Usually implemented by adding 600, 900 or 1000 to the previous national road number (e.g. new "D 619" instead of previously "N 19"). The new numbers have only gradually found their way into signposts, road maps and people's consciousness. Sometimes the old designation is still in use today, which can lead to misunderstandings and orientation problems.
Length of the department roads
As of December 31, 2007
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.af3v.org/spip.php?page=imprimer&voie=16
- ↑ http://www.statistiques.equipement.gouv.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=46 ( Memento from February 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )