Pont de Sèvres, Road bridge in Boulogne-Billancourt and Sèvres, France
The Pont de Sèvres is a road bridge crossing the Seine river to connect Boulogne-Billancourt and Sèvres, spanning a total of 150 meters. The structure features multiple traffic lanes and a main central span of approximately 80 meters to carry vehicles between the two municipalities.
A first wooden bridge was built in 1684 by decision of Louis XIV to ease travel between Paris and Versailles, at the downstream tip of Île Seguin. Napoleon I replaced it with a masonry bridge begun in 1808 under engineers Jean Joseph Pierre Vigoureux and Corneille Lamandé; damaged in the Hundred Days fighting, it was finished only in 1820. The present steel-beam bridge with reinforced-concrete slabs entered service in 1963.
The bridge gives its name to the Pont de Sèvres district in Boulogne-Billancourt, to a Paris Métro Line 9 terminus and to a former station on the Moulineaux line. The rue du Vieux-Pont-de-Sèvres recalls the wooden bridge built in 1684 under Louis XIV.
The bridge carries the RD 910 and is crossed by tramway Line 2, with sidewalks on both sides. A cycle lane installed on the upstream sidewalk in the early 2010s was little used and poorly connected to the banks; temporary cycle lanes were added in June 2020. Work at the left-bank junction by the Manufacture de Sèvres aims to create a continuous cycle route by 2028.
The bridge gave its name to the Pont de Sèvres metro station, the western terminus of Paris Métro Line 9, as well as to a former station on the Moulineaux line and a bus station. A street in Boulogne-Billancourt, the rue du Vieux-Pont-de-Sèvres, still recalls the wooden bridge built in 1684.
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