Paris Mayor plans to get rid of Seine Expressways

[Vierwielen]

INA reporting on them opening. I can see where the Mayor is coming from.

Interstingly it shows the commission party being the Prefecture de la Seine.

Great footage. I'm not sure if the 60km/h limits shown were normal (the 50km/h limit is a 90s invention) or if Paris was always slower and the expressways had a higher limit to compensate.

Some lovely enamel direction signs too. One or two survived until the closures.

A few years ago I was "treated" to a drive along the Seine by a taxi driver. I think that he had somehow got an mph speedo in his cab or had somehow got his mph and km/h mixed up - he was certainly going well in excess of 60 km/h! As we sped under the Pont d'Alma he casually pointed out the spot where Princess Diana was killed.