Quebec Autoroute 70
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| Autoroute 70 |
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| Autoroute du Saguenay (Saguenay Autoroute), La plus courte autoroute du monde ("The World's Shortest Freeway") |
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| Length: | 27 kilometres (17 miles) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1983 | ||||||||
| Direction: | East/West | ||||||||
| From: | Jonquiere, Quebec | ||||||||
| Major junctions: |
 in Chicoutimi |
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| To: | Chicoutimi, Quebec | ||||||||
| Major cities: | Saguenay, Quebec | ||||||||
| System: | City/Rural highway | ||||||||
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Autoroute 70, or A-70, is a short Autoroute in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of northern Quebec. It is currently the only Autoroute that does not connect to any other Autoroutes although other Autoroutes with discontiguous segments such as Autoroute 30 have parts that don't connect to any other (it may in the future, however, if Route 175 is redesignated as Autoroute 73 all the way to A-70 once expanded). A-70 is currently 27 km (17 miles) long, however extensions are planned in both directions.
A-70 is only partially completed; currently it acts primarily as a bypass route around the urban area of Saguenay. The route was slow to develop; until 2001 it was an extremely short stub, less than 6 km (3.5 miles) long (built in three sections), however, construction has recently been accelerated.
It is expected that A-70 will be extended westward to at least Alma and eastward to La Baie. A new alignment has already been determined for the westernmost section of A-70, and the central section (currently part of Route 170) is already a 4-lane divided highway; service roads would need to be constructed as it is not limited access. The proposed route for the eastern section has also been determined.
The ultimate length of A-70 will likely be around 64 km (40 miles) in length.
[edit] Interchanges from West to East
| Municipality | Exit Number | Intersecting Roads |
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| Jonquière-Chicoutimi | ||
| Saguenay | 26 | Chemin St-Benoît /  Route 170 |
| Saguenay | 33 | Rue St-Hubert |
| Saguenay | 36 | Rue Panet / Boulevard René-Lévesque  Route 372 |
| Saguenay | 39 | Rue Mathias |
| Saguenay | 42 | Rang St-Antoine / Boulevard du Royaume Route 170 |
| Saguenay | 45 | Boulevard St-Paul |
| Saguenay | 47 | Boulevard Talbot Route 175 |
| Saguenay | 49* | Boulevard du Royaume Route 170 (at-grade intersection, future interchange) |
| Future extension east from Chicoutimi | ||
| Saguenay | 56* | Chemin de la Grande-Anse (future interchange) [1] |
| Saguenay | 61* | Chemin St-Anicet Route 170) (future interchange) |
- *Exit number not signed, based on kilometre post
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