Périphérique parisien - activities

Paris: speeds reduced to 50km/h on the ring road, from September 2024?

After a Paris intra-muros at 30 km/h, the Paris ring road will soon be limited to 50 km/h! After the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, from mid-September, we're going to have to slow down! Unless the government says otherwise...

Traffic: new car-pooling sign on the road - watch out for the fine!

There's a new sign on the road, symbolized by a white diamond on a blue background, and you could be fined if you don't obey it. Its purpose is to encourage car-sharing, with a reserved lane.

Night-time closures and summer roadworks on the Paris region ring road and other major roads

As with public transport, summer is the period chosen by the Paris region and the city of Paris to carry out maintenance and renovation work in the streets of the capital, on the ring road and on the main roads of the Île-de-France region.

Paris: closure of the northern ring road and the A86 motorway on Monday and Wednesday nights

Be careful if you want to hit the road on the nights of June 5 to 7, 2023, in the Paris region! The northern ring road as well as the A86 will be closed from 10pm to 5:30am, as part of the preparations for the Paris 2024 Games.

Did you know that? The ring road was once called the Zone, a space inhabited by the poorest people

Before it became this huge road around the capital for motorists, the Parisian ring road had a less than glorious past. At the edge of the city, between Paris and the suburbs, this space was for a long time called the Zone, the only place where the poorest people could find housing.