A6 autoroute
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| Route information | |
Part of      E5 / E15 / E21 / E50 / E60 | |
| Maintained by DIR Centre-Est between Lyon and Limonest; APRR between Limonest and Cély; DIR île-De-France between Cély and Paris | |
| Length | 445.6 km (276.9 mi) |
| Existed | 1960–present |
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| West end | Paris (Porte d' Italie & Porte de Gentilly) |
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| Country | France |
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The A6, also known as the Autoroute du Soleil, Motorway of the Sun, (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. At 455 km long it is France's third longest autoroute after the A10 autoroute and the A4 autoroute.
The A6 motorway used to be prone to severe traffic jams around Fourvière Tunnel near Lyon[2] prior to the opening in 1992 of A46 autoroute and in 2011 of the A432 autoroute which is also called the "Contournement de Lyon" and known as the "Lyon Rocade Est".
A 200-kilometre (120-mile) stretch of the A6 motorway around Mâcon, Chalon-sur-Saône and Montceau-les-Mines, France, is known for the A6 disappearances, a number of mysterious disappearances or other crimes involving women and girls, occurring in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
Exit list
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Exits are numbered from north to south.
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A6b
[edit]| # | Destinations | Notes |
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| 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 |
References
[edit]- ^ Bison Futé Archived July 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ c.chauplannaz Archived July 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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