All visitors to Paris have a take on the Arc de Triomphe. One of France’s most famous and instantly recognisable icons is a lot of things to a lot of people—it’s obviously the monument to remember all those who died in the Napoleonic and Revolutionary wars, home to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War One, or it’s where the cyclists pass as they tear down the Champs-Élysées to win the Tour de France.
It’s also a legendary traffic hotspot, where 12 major roads converge (including the famous Champs-Élysées) into 12 lanes of traffic, often congested, and where priority is theoretically always from the
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