Rueil-Malmaison is a French commune located in the Hauts-de-Seine department in the Île-de-France region. Until 1928, the town was called Rueil.
Location
Rueil-Malmaison is the largest
municipality in Hauts-de-Seine. Established on the left bank of the
Seine, it borders on Nanterre, Suresnes, Saint-Cloud, Garches and
Vaucresson in the Hauts-de-Seine, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Bougival,
Croissy-sur-Seine and Chatou in the Yvelines.
It has 520
hectares of public green spaces divided between the forest of
Malmaison (wood of Saint Cucufa, of which 197 hectares out of 201
hectares are located in Rueil-Malmaison), the natural area of the
Gallicourts valley (43 hectares) 2 and the 107 hectares of public
green spaces including 37 hectares of parks and squares (including
17 hectares of Bois Préau park).
Roads
There are two main axes that cross Rueil-Malmaison:
the A86: it passes in a tunnel under the north-western part of
the city, parallel to the Seine, sometimes in the open, sometimes
covered. It has several exits in the city, the main one at Jonchère,
on the western edge of Rueil-Malmaison.
the D913 (formerly N13,
decommissioned since 2006): it starts from La Défense crosses the
city by avenue Napoléon-Bonaparte along the city center from the
north, Bougival, to head towards Saint-Germain-en-Laye and go west,
Chambourcy, etc.
Active transport
Rueil is the point of
arrival of the Blue Promenade, a pedestrian and cycling route
starting in Colombes, which follows the old towpath of the Seine for
10 km.
This same path accommodates a long section of the
international bicycle-route Avenue verte Paris-London, which arrives
from Nanterre and continues at the Pont de Chatou on the opposite
bank of the Seine.
The town must eventually be crossed by the
major green axis, a cycle path that will link all the municipalities
of the department. The town of Rueil-Malmaison has made substantial
progress in building this track, in particular on the banks of the
Seine and along the rue du Commandant-Jacquot.
The
Rueil-Malmaison tourist office publishes a map of cycle routes of
municipal interest:
City center / banks of the Seine route by
the swimming pool
rue Casanova, place Bir-Hakeim, rue
Messire-Aubin, avenue de l'Impératrice-Joséphine, place Osiris,
boulevard Marcel-Pourtout, rural road 25 along the A86 on the golf
course.
Nanterre / Bougival route along the banks of the Seine
Boulevard Belle-Rive, Quai Adolphe-Giquel, Allée Jacques-Prévert,
Rue Henri-Sainte-Claire-Deville, Avenue de Chatou.
RER station /
banks of the Seine route
avenue de Seine.
Nanterre / Bougival
route by sports facilities (swimming pool, stadium, Jean-Dame sports
complex)
rue Nadar, rural roads 22 and 21, boulevard
Franklin-Roosevelt, rue des Trianons, rue Isabey, avenue des
Chateaupieds, rue Beaumarchais, rue Geneviève-Couturier, impasse du
Donjon, rue des Souffrettes, rue du Docteur-Guionis, rue Jean-
Baptiste-Besche.
Rueil-sur-Seine / Les Martinets college route
via the banks of the Seine
boulevard Belle-Rive, avenue des
Acacias, boulevard des Coteaux, rue du Docteur-Charcot, in its part
between boulevard des Coteaux and avenue du Stade.
Public
transport
Rueil-Malmaison is connected to the RER network via the
Rueil-Malmaison station on the RER A branch in the direction of
Saint-Germain-en-Laye (A1).
Numerous bus lines connect
Rueil-Malmaison to Paris and the neighboring municipalities, via the
Île-de-France bus networks:
14 lines of the RATP network: 141,
144, 158, 163, 241, 244, 258, 259, 263, 367, 459, 467, 563, 564 and
565
1 line of the Seine bus network: B
1 line of the Transdev
Nanterre network: 27, 503
1 line of the Hourtoule network: 111
2 lines of the Noctilien network: N53 and N153.