A6 autoroute (France)

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The A6, also known as the Autoroute du Soleil (along with the A7), is an Autoroute in France, linking Paris to Lyon. The motorway starts at Paris's Porte d'Orléans and Porte d'Italie with two branches, numbered A6a and A6b respectively, that join south of Paris.

A6a and A6b at Paris
A6a and A6b at Paris

The motorway is favoured by holidaymakers[1] as it is the main link to the South of France and the French Riviera and is prone to severe traffic jams around famous bottlenecks, such as the Tunnel de Fourvière near Lyon.[2][3]

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[edit] Exit list

Exits are numbered from north to south.

# Destinations Notes
Boulevard Périphérique Intérieur - Porte d'Arcueil northbound exit and southbound entrance
RN20 - Porte d'Orléans northbound exit and southbound entrance
Boulevard Périphérique Extérieur northbound exit and southbound entrance
slow vehicles; all directions (A6b south) southbound exit and northbound entrance
A6b north - Metz; Nancy; Lille; Villejuif; Arcueil; Périphérique east; Porte d'Italie northbound exit and southbound entrance
A106 south - Aéroport Orly southbound exit and northbound entrance
3 Rungis southbound exit and northbound entrance
A10 south - Palaiseau; Étampes; Bordeaux; Nantes; Massy; Longjumeau southbound exit and northbound entrance
A6b north - Versailles; Antony; Lille; Metz; Nancy; Rungis; Aéroport Orly; Créteil northbound exit and southbound entrance; A6a becomes A6 southbound and begins northbound
to A10 - Palaiseau; Massy; Wissous (A126) northbound exit and southbound entrance
5 Chilly-Mazarin; Morangis; Longjumeau
6 Savigny-sur-Orge; Épinay-sur-Orge; Morsang-sur-Orge; Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois
7 Viry-Châtillon; Fleury-Mérogis (N445) southbound exit and northbound entrance
7.1 Grigny; Ris-Orangis; Viry-Châtillon (N440; N441)
N104 west to A13; to A10 - Rouen; Bordeaux; Nantes; Versailles; Évry-Centre; Courcouronnes; Bondoufle (N440; N441; N449)
N104 east to A5; to A1 - Troyes; Corbeil-Essonnes; Sénart; Melun; Marne-la-Vallée; Lisses-Centre; Évry; Courcouronnes (N446)
9 Villabé; Évry-Lisses Z.I.; Mennecy
10 Corbeil-Essonnes-Centre; Mennecy (N191) northbound exit and southbound entrance
11 Le Coudray-Montceaux; Mennecy; Auvernaux southbound exit and northbound entrance
12 Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry (N337) southbound exit and northbound entrance
to N7 - Fontainebleau (N37) southbound exit and northbound entrance
13 Étampes; Melun; Milly-la-Forêt
14 Malesherbes (N152)
15 Fontainebleau (N7 north) northbound exit and southbound entrance
16 Montereau; Nemours
A77 south - Nevers; Montargis southbound exit and northbound entrance
17 E60 west - Montargis; Orléans; Courtenay; Villeneuve-sur-Yonne (N60)
A19 to A5 - Paris; Sens; Troyes
18 Joigny; Toucy; Villeneuve-sur-Yonne; Charny; Châteaurenard
19 Auxerre; Joigny; Migennes (N6)
20 Tonnerre; Auxerre (N65)
21 Nitry; Montbard; Vézelay; Tonnerre
22 Avallon; Saulieu (N146)
23 Bierre-lès-Semur; Semur-en-Auxois; Saulieu; Montbard
A38 - Dijon; Autun; Saulieu; Pouilly-en-Auxois
24 Beaune-Centre; Savigny-lès-Beaune; Beaune-Saint-Nicolas (N74)
A31 to A36; to A5 - Lille; Metz; Nancy; Besançon; Dijon (E60 east)
24.1 Beaune-Centre; Chagny; Beaune-Hospices (N470)
25 Chalon-Nord; Chalon-sur-Saône; Autun; Châtenoy-le-Royal; Chagny
26 Chalon-Sud; Chalon-sur-Saône; Le Creusot; Montceau-les-Mines; Lons-le-Saunier (N80)
27 Tournus (N6)
28 Mâcon-Nord; Mâcon; Bourg-en-Bresse; Pont-de-Vaux (N72)
A40 - Milan; Genève; Bourg-en-Bresse southbound exit and northbound entrance
29 Mâcon-Sud; Mâcon; Moulins; Charnay-lès-Mâcon; Thoissey; Cluny; Charolles (N79)
30 Belleville; Thoissey; Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne
31 Villefranche-sur-Saône; Jassans-Riottier

[edit] A6b

# Destinations Notes
Périphérique outer - Metz; Nancy; Lille northbound exit and southbound entrance
1 Porte d'Italie northbound exit and southbound entrance
2 D61 - Villejuif; Arcueil; Le Kremlin-Bicêtre northbound exit and southbound entrance
A6a north - Rouen; Paris-Centre; Périphérique inner; Porte d'Orléans northbound exit and southbound entrance
A106 south - Aéroport Orly southbound exit and northbound entrance
3 Rungis southbound exit and northbound entrance
A86 west; N186 west - Antony; l'Haÿ-les-Roses; Versailles; Fresnes; Chevilly-Larue northbound exit and southbound entrance
A86 east; N186 east - Lille; Metz; Nancy; Créteil; Aéroport Orly; other sectors of Rungis no southbound exit
A10 south - Palaiseau; Étampes; Bordeaux; Nantes; Massy; Longjumeau southbound exit and northbound entrance

[edit] References

  1. ^ [1][dead link]
  2. ^ c.chauplannaz
  3. ^ Designated as one of France's 18 worst areas for traffic during summer 2006 by Bison Futé, page 22 [2] (accessed 30/06/06)

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