Avenue Foch with chestnut trees along its full length. The Avenue was constructed during the reign of Emperor Napoleon III, as part of the grand plan for the reconstruction of Paris conducted by Napoleon's Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann. It was designed to connect the Place d'Etoile with another important part of Haussmann's plan, the Bois de Boulogne, the new public park on the west end of the city. The original plan, by Jacques Hittorff, who had designed the Place de la Concorde decades earlier, called for an avenue forty meters wide between the modern Avenue Victor Hugo and the modern
Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City lend its known nickname, the "Killer Highway". The Mass Rapid Transit Line 7 (MRT 7), which will connect with the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 at North Avenue Common Station, began construction in 2016. Most of the alignment of the MRT 7 will follow the Center island of Commonwealth Avenue up to Regalado Highway. The Commonwealth Avenue is divided to two portions, the 6–8-lane Fairview Avenue and the 18-lane Don Mariano Marcos Avenue. The Don Mariano Avenue was constructed in the late-1960s as a two-lane highway to offer a route towards the Batasang Pambansa Complex. Quezon City was then the