Paris during the Second Empire the Service des Promenades et Plantations, directly under the Prefect Haussmann. The first director was Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, who designed all the new parks of Paris and the avenues and trees along the boulevards, small squares and gardens in the city. The most popular promenade for the wealthier Parisians began at the Place de la Concorde, went up the Champs-Elysees to the Place de l'Étoile, and then turned onto the Avenue de l'Impératrice (today the Avenue Foch), the widest avenue in the city, which was the ceremonial entry to the new Bois de Boulogne. Once in the park, the promenaders
Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City Philippines, beating the old record set by EDSA. On October 1, 2009, Quezon City Mayor Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. announced his 15-year-old plan to link Commonwealth Avenue and Quirino Highway at the cost of P20 million to P140 million, which would be adjacent to Zabarte Road. The project was completed in May 2011 and is already operational. From May 2011, a speed limit is enforced on Commonwealth Avenue, following the death of Lourdes Estella-Simbulan, a journalist, on a road accident in the avenue. On the first week of the speed limit implementation, 120 violators are apprehended after speeds of over 60