French highway A6

In France, the highway A6 is the Autoroute Paris - Lyon. It connects the south-east from Paris to Lyon by the valley of the the Saone and is directed by Autoroutes the Paris-Rhine-Rhone. It is prolonged by the A7 to go to Marseilles. It measures 470 km. It belongs to the European roads E15 and E21.

History

A6 highway was built between 1960 and 1971.

  • 1953 : Beginning of the construction of a first section between Paris and Coudray-Montceaux.
  • 1960 : The “highway of the South” opens between Paris and Coudray-Montceaux (34 km).
  • 1961 : SAPL (Company of the Paris-Lyon Highway) is created.
  • 1963 : Opening of the section Auxerre - Southern/long Nitry 25 km. This portion is initially free but prohibited with weight-heavy and the coaches.
  • 1964 : Opening of the section Nitry/Avallon. The use of the portion between Auxerre and Avallon from now on with toll and is authorized with all types of motor vehicles. It will be followed from there thus for the remainder of the layout between Fleury-in-Beer and Limas close to Villefranche-sur-Saône. A free portion is inaugurated between Coudray-Montceaux and Ury.
  • 1965 : Opening of the section Auxerre - Northern/Auxerre - Southern. Another paying portion is inaugurated between Ury and Nemours.
  • 1966 : Opening of the long deviation of Villefranche-sur-Saône 12 km connecting Arnas to north and Handle in the south.
  • 1967 : Opening of the section Nemours/Auxerre - Northern. the highway connects from now on Paris to Avallon on 210 km without interruption .
  • 1969 : Opening of the sections between Avallon and Pouilly-in-Auxois like between Villefranche-sur-Saône and Mâcon - Northern. Inauguration of a free portion between Handle and Limonest.
  • 1970 : Last opening of a paying portion between Pouilly-in-Auxois and Mâcon - Northern.
  • 1971 : End of the construction of the A6 the December 8th with the opening of the Tunnel of Fourvière and completion of the axis Paris - Lyon (455 km).
  • 1972 : Opening of the A6b between Cachan and Paris - Door of Italy.
  • 1975 : SAPL becomes SAPRR (Company of the Paris-Rhine-Rhone Highways).
  • 1982 : Accident of coach in Beaune making more than 50 victims. Following this drama, one decides to equip the highway with central safety fences (fitted formerly separated by a simple vegetable band without barrier) and the first widenings of the highway with 2×3 ways between Beaune and Lyon then between Auxerre and Paris.
  • 1999 : Beginning of work of setting with the security standards of the Tunnel of Fourvière (frequent closings the night).
  • 2006 : Speed limit with the tunnel of Fourvière to 70 km/h instead of 90 km/h before. Opening of the exchanger Villefranche-North 31.1 (that located at the level of toll being renumbered into 31.2) Friday November 10th with 16:00, the tollbooth is entirely automated.
  • 2007 : Beginning of the automation of tolls on certain exchangers the night.

Served cities

A106

  • : Orly
  • : Airport of Orly

Circulation

This highway is very much used in period of vacation because it allows the people living in the north of the France, in particular many the franciliens, to join the coasts of the the Mediterranean (by the A7 of Lyon to Marseilles). It also makes it possible to join the the Alps in period of winter sports.

For these periods, the highway is particularly in charge in direction of the south at the beginning of leave, in direction of Paris at the end of the leave. The last weekend of July and the first weekend of August are particularly charged in the two directions - congestions sometimes being able to extend on hundreds from kilometers - at the time of what one names the drive out-crossed between the franciliens known as juilletists which finish their holidays and those known as August holiday-makers which begins them.

The A5 was built between 1990 and 1995 to unchoke A6 with the accesses of Paris. In the south, it separates from A6 on the level of the plate of Langres and joined the area is Île-de-France by Melun.

Sites worth visiting in the vicinity

Strange

  • Since 1992, on the commune of Senan in the Yonne, between Joigny and Auxerre, a giant publicity is drawn by the particular size of a field with hillside in order to be seen by far by the motorists, in the direction Paris - Lyon. The slogan changes every year at the time of harvest, the summer.
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