France: D383 Lyon Ring Road

[@Maidy_Yuki48]

NOTE TO CORRECT At 10:37 the icon over the left lane dosen't mean the lane is reserved to Renault driver, but indicate that lane is reserved to carpool (2+ passengers), Taxi, Buses and electric cars (at 10:33 we can see the list of autorized vehicules on the sign) This is new in French road signage and even french people didn't know the signification of this sign, actually only used at Lyon on M6 and M7 This icon came direct from USA and have the same meaning of this one

[@pappiricki]

😂 just A joke

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

Those span wire lights are king of neat. There used to be similar lights on the Autoroute network of Quebec.

[@reuillois]

4:21 I checked on "IGN Remonter le temps" website (from French National Geographic Institute), you can see aerial photo of this from 1938. Impressive road for this era.

[@EuropeanRoads]

Very interesting. Even that roadway split near the A43 interchange already existed at that time. Also interesting to see how relatively undeveloped this area was even in the 1950-1965 images. The big apartment buildings and industrial-commercial sites were built later.

[@TheMexxodus]

The span wire lighting on this (first section of the) ringroad must be one of the few surviving in France. It's typical 1960's and 1970s. The set of tunnels on the northern stretch is quite impressive, so I can see why they toll this section :) Good music choice on this vid!

[@EuropeanRoads]

They are being phased out in the Netherlands as well. Reason: they are not produced anymore and getting spare parts has become problematic. Philips has an outdoor lighting test site near Lyon (next to A42 near Bresolles).

[@GreatAussieDrives]

Fantastic video! I love seeing videos of urban European arterial roads. Though it's technically not a motorway, such a road definitely sufficient to be considered a motorway here in Australia 😁 Though I have to say the 70km/h speed limit seems a little slow!

[@blanco7726]

It was probably 90kmh until a half decade to a decade ago, they most likely cut it to 70kmh for emissions and traffic calming.

[@craigceecee8762]

@@blanco7726 I'd agree that 90 km/h is more suitable, except around the sharp curve at A43 which seems to support 70.

[@maszat1515]

Will you make a video of the Budapest Ring, M0 too please?

[@dontgetlost4078]

2:23 And here I thought the RR crossing on A-20 at Sainte-Hyacinte, QC, was evil enough as it is!! Judging by the grassy thing on the left, this line looks thankfully inactive.

[@Chepa_Faux]

It is an active railway (for freight only and may happen a few times every year, AFAIK, there is a video where this RR is passed by a train), but it is rare that trains goes through this railway crossing as it also needs cops to block the traffic.

[@NL-rd7xl]

3:21 Deja Vu, I've just been in this place before

[@vaaggasje]

In mijn ervaring kan je het beste gewoon dwars door Lyon via de Fourviere tunnel, of anders over de nieuwe wijdere ringweg

[@captaintraxx4516]

What is the speed on the timelapse?

[@SyntaxOverflow]

A lane reserved for a specific brand of car?

[@Leo-sb2bw]

It's not, this is a lane reserved for some type of vehicules, here it's for collective transport, taxis and carpooling this sign is quite new so a lot of people don't know his meaning

[@EuropeanRoads]

It was a joke 🙂 The carpool logo is very similar to the Renault logo.

[@Frederic7594]

It’s an European version of the widely spread HOV lane diamond symbol in America.

[@max200023]

Did you have to slow down to 30 km/h for that toll gate or were you able to pass with 50 km/h?

[@EuropeanRoads]

It was more like 30 km/h, similar to other télépéage toll booths on the autoroute. I'd never seen one designed like this before.

[@Sven_E]

3:21 ah idiots appear in every city...

[@RoadsOfAsiaBen]

Does tourist use transporter/ETC to pay toll in France and other European country?

[@EuropeanRoads]

Foreigners can get a transponder for France (and other countries), but I think you need an IBAN bank account number. I have one since 2014. At that time I was seemingly the only foreigner going through the ETC lanes, but nowadays more foreigners use them.

[@waldogadellaa]

@@EuropeanRoads Tourist club like ANWB sell and promote badges, so they get more common. I don't have one as I do not drive French toll roads that often

[@d_g_drone]

Met de bekende spoorwegovergang. 😊 Meeste signalering is wel verwijderd zie ik.

[@Matz32]

Interesting urban expressway ... only the speed limit, no wonder it is ignored by so many drivers. Nice joke of end ;)

[@pedrorubiotejero_aka_prt]

6:58 Firstly: WTF is doing a toll booth on a Ring Road? Secondly: In Spain, we have this (curious for you) electronic gate tolling at AP-7 in the Málaga Province stretches. If you don't have E-Tag, you need to go straight on and pay as usual, with cash or credit/debit card

[@respectedgentleman4322]

France sure loves its toll roads. Some logic in it. You pay to go faster. Madrid has a lot of toll roads, not the ring roads I agree but the R roads are tolled.

[@pedrorubiotejero_aka_prt]

@@respectedgentleman4322 Yes, all the R Motorways are tolled and empty, so empty than the R Motorways are state-owned and they have low toll prices, but cars prefer entering Madrid on the Radial Freeways. By the other hands, Madrid's Ring Roads are free, but M-45 & M-50 are paid by the people of Madrid's Region by their taxes (That's what we call "Peajes en la sombra" or shadow-tolled), but M-45 Ring Road was just going to be totally tolled on the middle of the crisis, but people stopped the total toll by demonstrations. Also, in 2005, the Madrid's Regional Government begun to build a regional tolled road (Called MP-203 to difference it from the M-203 road) between Radial Motorway R-3 & Radial Freeway A-2. Construction stopped by the 2008 Crisis, and some weeks ago the Madrid's Regional Government begun the contracts' contest to complete this regional tolled road. A regional tolled road that has been on project was the RM-1 Regional Radial Motorway to avoid traffic on Radial Freeway A-1. It'd begun on the M-50 Ring Road & R-2 Radial Motorway overloop, just North of the Adolfo Suárez-Madrid-Barajas Airport and it'd end 70 kilometres North of there, on the other side of the Somosierra Mountains, in Segovia Province. But it has been a project from the mid-2000's

[@RoadsOfAsiaBen]

@@pedrorubiotejero_aka_prt In Japan, there are toll gates on entry ramp on ring road such as C1 in Tokyo but not on the ring road itself.

[@pedrorubiotejero_aka_prt]

@Raphaël Chanthavong These state-owned toll motorways are a minority on the Spanish toll motorways' map. The 2 major toll motorways' owned companies are Autopistas (It owned the AP-7 tolled stretches between France and Alicante and its concessions ended between January 1st 2020 and September 1st 2021 and now it owns the AP-6, AP-71, AP-61 & AP-51 toll motorways) & Itínere (It owns the AP-66 and all the Galician toll motorways). Some of this toll motorways are mixed infrastructure or toll concessionaire and bank-owned toll motorways, even a stretch of AP-7 (Crevillente-Cartagena) it's fully owned by banks. And then we have the regional toll motorways, that have mixed private and public concessionaires, and the AG-55 & AG-57 Galician Regional Toll Motorways, fully concessioned by Itínere

[@pedrorubiotejero_aka_prt]

@@RoadsOfAsiaBen Surely it's for environmental reasons, as well as in Sweden, where you need to have a E-Tag in order to enter into Central Stockholm, because all entries into Central Stockholm are tolled due to environmental reasons and for politics of using the public transport to commute into the Sweden's Capitol City