| Autoroute 30 | ||||
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| Autoroute de l'Acier | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by Transports Québec | ||||
| Length: | 132.7 km[2][1] (82.5 mi) | |||
| Existed: | 1968[1] – present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end: | Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec | |||
| A-730 in Saint-Constant A-15 in Candiac A-10 in Brossard Route 116 / Route 112 in Longueuil (Saint-Hubert) A-20 in Sainte-Julie A-55 in Bécancour |
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| East end: | Bécancour, Quebec | |||
| Location | ||||
| Major cities: | Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Châteauguay, Candiac, La Prairie, Boucherville, Brossard, Longueuil, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Sainte-Julie, Sorel-Tracy, Varennes, Bécancour | |||
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Autoroute 30 (or A-30, also known in French as Autoroute de l'Acier ["Steel Expressway"]) is a superhighway in Quebec, Canada.
There are three segments currently open for travel:
A-30 serves as a bypass route for the city of Montreal. It is located on the South Shore of the St. Lawrence River. When completed, it will allow vehicles traveling along Autoroute 20 and Autoroute 40 to bypass Montreal from Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec and then return to the A-20 in Sainte-Julie.
The original section of Autoroute 30 linked Sorel to Quebec Route 116. Later, in 1982, it was extended to Autoroute 10 in Brossard and then to Autoroute 15 in 1996.
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| Municipality | No. | Destinations | Notes | |
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| New | Old | |||
| Châteauguay | (38) | (80) | R-132 R-138 Saint-Jean-Baptiste boulevard, Downtown Châteauguay, Huntingdon, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield |
Not signed yet |
| 41 | 83 | Industriel boulevard / Sainte-Marguerite boulevard | ||
| Saint-Isidore | 44 | 86 | R-207 R-221 Kahnawake, Saint-Rémi, Saint-Isidore | |
| Saint-Constant | (47)[3] | (89)[4] | A-730 East, Saint-Constant, Sainte-Catherine, Honoré-Mercier bridge | Not signed yet |
| Candiac | 55 | A-15 R-132, Montreal, New York I-87 | Eastbound only | |
| 58 | A-15 R-132, I-87, Saint-Constant, Sainte-Catherine | West bound only | ||
| La Prairie | (62) | 104 | R-104, La Prairie, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu | |
| Brossard | 65 | 107 | Boulevard Matte, Boulevard de Rome | Dual km on signage |
| 67 | 109 | A-10 Boulevard de Rome Montreal, Sherbrooke | ||
| Brossard / Saint-Hubert | 69 | 110 | Grande-Allée | |
| Saint-Hubert | 73 | 115 | R-112, Boulevard Cousineau, Chemin de Chambly | |
| Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville | 76 | 118 | Route 116, Boulevard des Promenades, Belœil, Jacques-Cartier bridge | |
| 78 | 120 | Clairevue boulevard | ||
| 80 | 121 | Montée Montarville | ||
| Boucherville | 83 | 125 | , Montreal, Quebec City | |
| Boucherville / Sainte-Julie | 87 | 128 | Varennes, Sainte-Julie, Saint-Amable | |
| Varennes | 95 | 136 | Montée de Picardie | |
| 98 | 141 | Montée de la Baronnie, Chemin de la Butte-aux-Renards | ||
| Verchères | 105 | 147 | Verchères | |
| 107 | 149 | Calixa-Lavallée | ||
| Contrecoeur | 113 | 154 | Montée Lapierre | |
| 117 | 158 | Montée de la Pomme-d'Or | ||
| 119 | 160 | Rue Saint-Antoine | ||
| 126 | 168 | Montée Saint-Roch | ||
| Sorel-Tracy | 135 | 178 | Chemin du Golf | |
| 138 | 181 | Boulevard de Tracy / Boulevard des Érables | ||
| 140 | 182 | Boulevard Saint-Louis | ||
| 141 | 184 | R-223, Chemin Saint-Roch | ||
| (143) | (186) | R-133, Chemin des Patriotes / Boulevard Gagné | ||
At the end of 2005, construction on the portion between Candiac and Châteauguay had begun, and opened to traffic in November 2010. This section was joined to the main part in November 2011.
The completion of the Montreal Bypass is set for November 2012.[5] Autoroute 30 is being routed to the existing junction of Autoroute 20 and Autoroute 540.
The existing A-30 road bypassing Salaberry-de-Valleyfield west of the new junction with Autoroute 30 has been renamed Autoroute 530. Other former segments of A-30 that have been superseded have been renamed Autoroute 730 and Autoroute 930.
The westernmost portion is being financed in a joint partnership between the public and private sector, while other sections are funded only by the provincial government.[6][7]
Exits on the existing A-30 will be renumbered upon completion of the Montreal Bypass, listed in the above table. The current numbering is a vestige of the original plans from the 1960's (cancelled by the 1980's) for the A-30 which envisaged the highway beginning at the U.S. border at Dundee.
There are currently no plans to close the A-30 gap between Sorel-Tracy and Bécancour, as the current average daily traffic levels on Route 132 are insufficient to justify such a project.
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