Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Paris Périphérique by night

 
Paris' Périphérique by night at Porte d'Italie (Paris is on the left side of the picture). The Périphérique was built in the early 1970s on the empty space left abandoned after the destruction of the defense wall of Paris in the 1920s, and completed on April 25, 1973. It is the generally-accepted boundary between the city proper (approx. 2 million inhabitants) and the suburbs (more than 9 million inhabitants), as it is situated along Paris's administrative limit (excluding the Paris heliport and the outlying woods of Boulogne and Vincennes).
Reason
It's a really stunning picture, and it also does a good job at highlighting the sheer volume of traffic that passes along the Peripherique.
Articles this image appears in
Périphérique (Paris)
Creator
Marc Planard

Not promoted MER-C 04:25, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]