A13 autoroute | |
---|---|
Route information | |
Part of E46 | |
Length | 225 km (140 mi) |
Existed | 1946–present |
Major junctions | |
West end | Périphérique Caen |
East end | Périphérique, Paris |
Location | |
Country | France |
Major cities | Mantes-la-Jolie, Rouen, Pont-l'Évêque, Caen |
Highway system | |
|
Autoroute 13, or L'Autoroute de Normandie links Paris to Caen, Calvados.
The motorway starts in Paris at the Porte d'Auteuil, a former gate of the Paris walls, and ends at Mondeville's Mondeville 2 (Porte de Paris) exchange junction on the Boulevard Périphérique (Caen). The A13 is France's oldest motorway (opening in 1946) and is intensively used between Paris and Normandy for both commuting and holiday makers. The A13 is operated by the Société des Autoroutes de Paris Normandie from Buchelay toll onwards, whilst the Parisian stretch of motorway is operated by the Île-de-France Council. Its total length is 225 km (140 mi). The A13 is toll-free within the Île-de-France region and between junctions 21 and 24 to the south of Rouen.
The France carried out its first studies in 1927 to create the l'Autoroute de l'Ouest that was to connect the capital to Normandy. [1] In addition, Le Havre and Cherbourg were important stopovers for luxury liners at a time when there were few commercial aircraft. Delayed by the historic nature of Parc de Saint-Cloud, the project was declared a public utility on 5 May 1935. [2] The initial highway was planned with a start at the Pont de Saint-Cloud and heading west to Rocquencourt where it would connect to the old N190 route to Orgeval and old N10 route to Trappes. [2] This new route was accompanied by the reconstruction of the Pont de Saint-Cloud and was completed in April 1940. [3] The other major project was the 800m Saint-Cloud tunnel that was to open at the end of 1940 but German occupation of France ended its completion and it was used as storage for weapons. [4] The route, from Saint-Cloud-Ouest to Vaucresson in the direction of Orgeval, was opened to the public on 4 October 1941. [1] The tunnel works resumed from October 1945, with the tunnel surfaced and tiled. [4]
The complex was opened to traffic on 9 June 1946 on the occasion of the first post-war motor race. [1] The highway was completely free, financed entirely from state funds. At the Triangle de Rocquencourt, the exit to Trappes was via a ramp on the left, which was a curiosity, as traffic was on the right. [5] This highway was credited until the 1960s with one star in the Michelin green guide Environs de Paris, because of its absolute modernity and novelty.
The French motorways were then named in relation to the national roads they run along, hence the A13 due to the proximity of the N13.
The decree of 12 June 1967 declared the construction of the motorway between Rouen (Les Essarts) and Caen to be a public utility.
Until 1974, the A13 stopped at the Pont de Saint-Cloud. [1] Since then, it has been connected to the Paris ring road by the Saint-Cloud viaduct overlooking the Seine and by a tunnel under the northern Boulogne-Billancourt, cutting through the garden of Château Rothschild. [1]
As part of the connection of the A86 motorway, the first part of the 10 km tunnel, known as the Duplex A86 , between Rueil-Malmaison and Vaucresson which was put into service in June 2009 , [6] it was decided to add a fourth lane in both directions and to install acoustic screens between the A13/A86 interchange and the Triangle de Rocquencourt. The interchanges between the A13 and A12 on one side and the A13 and RN 186 on the other, were redeveloped to improve traffic flow. The fourth lane in the westbound direction from Paris provides easy access to the Triangle de Rocquencourt. It was inaugurated in January 2011. The fourth lane in an eastbound direction to Paris was inaugurated in July 2011. The six-month delay was explained by the need to build "a mobile guardrail on this fourth lane" which is a lane assigned to the Duplex A86 tunnel.
On 3 September 2019, after three years of construction (2016-2019), a third overpass at the Guerville viaduct was commissioned in the eastbound direction to Paris, renovated the two existing overpasses (direction westbound) dating from the 1960s, without cutting off traffic. [7]
Region | Department | Location | km | mi | Junction | Destinations | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Normandy | Calvados | Caen | 0.0 | 0.0 | N 814 - 1. Porte de Paris | Deauville-Trouville / Le Havre / Rouen / Paris | |
Manneville | 3.7 | 2.3 | A 813 | Frenouville / Bellengreville / Mezidon-Canon | |||
Troarn | 7.4 | 4.6 | D 675 - Junction 31 | Sannerville / Troarn | |||
Cricqueville-en-Auge | 18.1 | 11.2 | D 400 - Junction 30 | Dozule / Dives sur Mer / Cabourg / Houlgate | |||
Drubec | 33.2 | 20.6 | D 16 / D 58 / D 675 - Junction 29A | Drubec / Villers sur Mer / St. Pierre sur Dives | Eastbound entry only / Westbound exit only | ||
Pont-l'Évêque | 40.9 | 25.4 | A 132 / D 579 - Pont-l'Évêque | Deauville-Trouville / Pont-l'Évêque / Lisieux | |||
Eure | Beuzeville | 49.9 | 31.0 | A 29 | Pont de Normandie / Honfleur / Le Havre / Amiens / Calais | ||
54.3 | 33.7 | D 675 - Junction 28 | Beuzeville / Pont Audemer | ||||
Toutainville | 64.4 | 40.0 | D 675 | Toutainville | Eastbound entry only / Westbound exit only | ||
Bourneville-Sainte-Croix | 76.3 | 47.4 | A 131 | Eastbound entry / Westbound exit | |||
77.5 | 48.1 | D 89 - Junction 26 | Brionne / Pont-Audemer - Est | ||||
Bourg-Achard | 90.5 | 56.2 | D 313 - Junction 25 | Bourg-Achard / Yvetot | |||
Honguemare-Guenouville | 91.4 | 56.8 | A 28 | Alençon / Le Mans / Bordeaux | |||
Saint-Ouen-de-Thouberville | 99.2 | 61.6 | D 438 - Junction 24 Bourgtheroulde | Bourgtheroulde / Caen / Alençon | |||
Seine-Maritime | Grand-Couronne | 103.0 | 64.0 | N 138 - Junction 23 | Rouen-Ouest / Grand-Couronne / Elbeuf / Rouen-Centre | Eastbound exit only / Westbound entry only | |
Oissel | 109.0 | 67.7 | A 139 | Rouen (westbound) | Eastbound entry only / Westbound exit only | ||
110.0 | 68.3 | D 18e- Junction 22 Oissel | Rouen-est / Amiens-Riems / Calais | ||||
Tourville-la-Rivière | 112.0 | 69.6 | D 7 - Junction 21 Ctre Commercial Region | Cleon / Elbeuf-centre | |||
Eure | Criquebeuf-sur-Seine | 115.0 | 71.4 | D 321 - Junction 20 | Pont de l'Arche / Elbeuf-est / Vernon | ||
Val-de-Reuil | 123.0 | 76.4 | A 154 / D 6154 - Junction 19 | Louviers / Val de Reuil / Orleans / Évreux | |||
Heudebouville | 131.0 | 81.4 | D 6155 - Junction 18 | Louviers | Eastbound entry only / Westbound exit only | ||
Saint-Aubin-sur-Gaillon | 139.0 | 86.3 | D 316 - Junction 17 | Les Andelys / Gaillon | |||
La Heunière | 151.0 | 93.8 | D 181 - Junction 16 | Pacy sur Eure / Vernon | |||
Île-de-France | Yvelines | La Villeneuve-en-Chevrie | 158.0 | 98.1 | N 13 / D 113 - Junction 15 | Bonnieres | |
Rosny-sur-Seine | 166.0 | 103.1 | A 13a - Junction 14 | Bonnieres | |||
Buchelay | 173.0 | 107.5 | D 110 - Junction 13 Mantes-Quest | Vernon / Évreux | Eastbound entry only / Westbound exit only | ||
Mantes-la-Ville | 174.0 | 108.1 | D 928 - Junction 12 Mantes-Sud | Mantes-la-Ville / Limay / Guerville | |||
176.0 | 109.3 | D 983 - Junction 11 Mantes-Est | Mantes la Ville / Limay / Guerville | ||||
Épône | 183.0 | 113.7 | D 130 - Junction 10 | Rambouillet | |||
Flins-sur-Seine | 187.0 | 116.1 | D 19 - Junction 9 | Aubergenville / Flins | |||
Bouafle | 190.0 | 118.0 | D 44 - Junction 8 | Ecquevilly / Bouafle / Les Mureaux-Meulan | Eastbound exit only / Westbound entry only | ||
Chapet | 192.0 | 119.3 | D 43 - Junction 8 | Ecquevilly / Les Mureaux-Meulan | Eastbound entry only / Westbound exit only | ||
Orgeval | 198.0 | 123.0 | D 153 - Junction 7 | La Defense / Nanterre / St-Germain-en-Laye / Poissy | |||
200.0 | 124.6 | A 14 | La Defense / Nanterre / St-Germain-en-Laye | Eastbound exit only / Westbound entry only | |||
Bailly / Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt | 211.0 | 131.0 | A 12 | Trappes | |||
212.0 | 131.7 | N 186 / D 186 - Junction 6 | Versailles-Centre / Saint-Germain-en-Laye | ||||
Hauts-de-Seine | Vaucresson | 215.0 | 133.5 | A 86 | Nanterre / Creteil | ||
216.0 | 134.2 | D 182 - Junction 5 | Vaucresson / Versailles-Montreuil | ||||
Saint-Cloud | 220.0 | 136.6 | D 985 - Junction 4 | Saint-Cloud / Ville-d'Avray | Eastbound exit only | ||
221.0 | 137.3 | D 7 / D 907 - Junction 3 Sèvres | Saint-Cloud / Pont de Saint-Cloud | ||||
Boulogne-Billancourt | 222.0 | 137.9 | D 1 - Junction 2 | Boulogne-Billancourt | Eastbound exit only | ||
Paris | Paris 16 | 223.0 | 138.5 | Av. de la Prte d'Auteuil - Junction 1 | Boulogne-Billancourt | Eastbound exit only | |
224.0 | 139.1 | Boulevard Périphérique | Lille / Metz-Nancy / Lyon | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
The Boulevard Périphérique, often called the Périph, is a limited-access dual-carriageway ring road in Paris, France. With a few exceptions, it is situated along Paris's administrative limit.
Banneville-la-Campagne is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.
Rocquencourt is a former commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt. It is about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north-west of Versailles and 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of center Paris.
Autoroute 20 is a Quebec Autoroute, following the Saint Lawrence River through one of the more densely populated parts of Canada, with its central section forming the main route of the Trans-Canada Highway from the A-25 interchange to the A-85 interchange. At 585 km (363.5 mi), it is the longest Autoroute in Quebec. It is one of two main links between Montreal and Quebec City; the other is the A-40.
The autoroute system in France consists largely of toll roads. It is a network of 11,882 km (7,383 mi) of motorways as of 2014. On road signs, autoroute destinations are shown in blue, while destinations reached through a combination of autoroutes are shown with an added autoroute logo. Toll autoroutes are signalled with the word péage.
Autoroute A12, is a French autoroute located in Yvelines, near Paris. It branches off from A13 at an exchange known as the Triangle de Rocquencourt located in the town of Bailly and merges with RN12 and RN10 at Bois-d'Arcy. Its total length is 8.5 km (5.3 mi). Access is free.
The A131 Autoroute starts at in the outskirts of Le Havre and ends near Bourneville-Sainte-Croix close to exit 26 on the A13.
Autoroute 132 links the A13 and Deauville & Trouville-sur-Mer. It starts between exits 28 and 29a on the A13 and ends in the outskirts of Touques, just south of the village of Canapville on the N177.
The N13 is a trunk road in France between Paris and Cherbourg.
The Francilienne is a partially completed ring road in Île-de-France, France, lying outside the A86.
The A16 autoroute – also known as L'Européenne and forming between Abbeville and Dunkirk a part of the larger Autoroute des estuaires – is a motorway in northern France.
The autoroute A14 is an autoroute in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It connects the business district of La Défense, at Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), to Orgeval (Yvelines) where it joins the A13. Its operation is managed by the Sanef group.
The A3 Autoroute is a French autoroute located entirely within the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, serving Montreuil, Rosny-sous-Bois, and Bondy. Its southern terminus is an interchange with the Boulevard Périphérique at the Porte de Bagnolet, and its northern terminus is an interchange with the A1 near Aéroport CDG. The A3 is 18 km long, and forms a part of European Route E15. A brief segment of its length is a concurrency with the A86. The first section of the roadway opened in 1969 between the Porte de Bagnolet and Bondy. Following the closure of the A186, one spur route branches off from the A3 - the A103 Autoroute.
The A86 is the second ring road around Paris, France. It follows an irregular path around Paris with the distance from the city centre varying in the 8–16 kilometres (5.0–9.9 mi) range. The south-western section of A86 contains one of the world's longest urban motorway tunnels known as the Duplex A86, opened in two parts in 2009 and 2011. The tunnel is limited to a height of 2.0 m and commercial vehicles are prohibited as a result.
The Autoroute A40 is a motorway in France that extends from Mâcon on the west to Passy on the east, terminating not far from Chamonix and the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The road runs 208 kilometres (129 mi) through Bresse, the high southern Jura Mountains, northern Prealps and French Alps. It was fully completed in 1990, and includes 12 viaducts and 3 tunnels. The road is maintained by Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhône, comprising part of European routes E25 and E62.
The A41 autoroute, also known as l'autoroute alpine, is a French motorway. The road passes through the French Alps connecting the city of Grenoble with the A40 near Geneva. It is made of two sections separated by the N201 and A43 autoroute at Chambéry.
The A43 autoroute, also known as l'autoroute alpine and l'autoroute de la Maurienne, is a motorway in France. Travelling through the French Alps, the road connects the city of Lyon with the Tunnel du Fréjus, near Modane, which passes the Italian border towards Turin. The autoroute opened in phases as it was constructed between 1973 and 1998.
The A89 autoroute is an autoroute in central France. It is known as the La Transeuropéenne. It connects Bordeaux and Lyon via Clermont-Ferrand. Its total length is 544 km (338 mi).
The grand contournement de Paris is the fourth ring road around Paris, enclosing the three other ring roads.
The Rocade de Bordeaux is a ring road that crosses almost all the municipalities of Bordeaux Métropole and the Bordeaux urban area. It is made up of A630 autoroute, section of European routes E5 and E70, on the left bank of the Garonne, and route nationale 230 on the right bank. It is located in the extension of the A10 autoroute and at the intersection of the A89, A62 and A63 autoroutes.