| A6 autoroute | |
|---|---|
| Route information | |
| Part of E05 / E50 / E15 / E60 | |
| Maintained by APRR | |
| Length: | 238 km (148 mi) |
| Existed: | 1960 – present |
| Major junctions | |
| West end: | Paris (Porte d' Italie & Porte de Gentilly) |
| Highway system | |
The A6, also known as the Autoroute du Soleil, Sun's Motorway, (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. 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]
Autoroutes are the same as a freeway or motorway. In France, many of the main Autoroutes have toll fees to pay ("Péage"). The autoroutes use a numbering system with the letter A at the beginning such as the famous A6 ("l'autoroute du soleil").
The different autoroutes are owned by various companies, so you will generally pay more than one toll to get across France. The price depends on your vehicle and the distance driven. You can pay by cash or credit card. Traffic can be very dense at certain times of the year, so prepare your dates and avoid traveling on the same days as the French holiday calendar. There is also a very good radios station which broadcasts information 24/7 on FM 107.7 on all motorways in France, providing up to date details of traffic conditions, alerts and deviations.
The speed limit on all French motoways is 130 kmh on dry roads, 110 kmh on wet roads. Normally when there is "fog" the limit is 50 kmh, but nobody seems to respect this. On a national road the limit is 90 kmh whilst in urban areas there is a 50 kmh restriction.
During the last few years there has been a huge amount of automatic radars installed all over France on the autoroutes and also minor roads. This is an attempt to reduce the number of accidents and deaths on the roads. The project is successful as there has been a dramatic reduction in the number of killed.
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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-Fault-Yonne; 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 |
| # | 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 |
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