The trunk road 13 is one of principal the trunk roads of France radiating at the beginning of Paris. It is, with the main roads 14 and 15, one of the three large Route S which connect Paris to the Normandy.

From a 338 km length, main road 13 goes from Paris to Cherbourg via Mantes-the-Pretty, Évreux and Caen. Until Caen, it is doubled by the Autoroute of Normandy (13 have) which withdrew most of its traffic to him, although the layout of the Autoroute is inflected towards north to serve the agglomeration Rouen is born.

In the crossing of the Yvelines, it was almost completely displaced on the way departmental 113, except a section ensuring the junction between the NR 184 and NR 186 Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer. This downgrading was effective for a long time on the course Orgeval - Mantes-the-Pretty - section called Route of forty pennies - when the wave of downgradings of 2006 transferred the Mantes-the-Pretty section of there with Limekiln-the-Bonnières. Before the years 1950, moreover, the section Orgeval - Mantes-the-Pretty belonged to the Trunk road 190, the trunk road 13 skirting then the Seine via Meulan. In the years 1950, one exchanged the numbers of these two sections.

In April 2006, in the Apple-brandy until Caen, the road was displaced in D613 secondary road.

At the beginning of 2007, the road is also displaced in the the Eure in the west of Parville under the same number.

See the layout of the RN13 on GoogleMaps

Route

Paris - Mantes

On the basis of Paris by the Door Shirt, main road 13 fits in the historical Axe, the prolongation of the avenue of the Large army and the Fields-Élysées, and crosses Neuilly-sur-Seine where it takes the name of Charles-of-Gaulle avenue then crosses the the Seine by the bridge of Neuilly. In the sector of Defense, its layout original disappeared, circulation borrowing the circular boulevard of Defense. It crosses then Puteaux and Nanterre via the place of the Ball.

From there, it forks towards Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer via Rueil-Malmaison and Bougival while skirting left bank of the Seine. It passes near the Château of Malmaison, remains of the Joséphine empress. The town of Saint-Germain is circumvented by a deviation with 2×2 ways which borrows the small valley of the Ru of Buzot now buried. Of Mantes-the-Pretty Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer to , it constitutes the Route of forty pennies, of which a part, between Orgeval and Mantes, is displaced on the way departmental D 113. In Orgeval, it joined the layout of the highways A13 and A14.

Mantes - Évreux

To the exit of Mantes, main road 13, now displaced in secondary road 113, skirts the Seine until the Bonnières-on-Seine which it reaches while passing by the famous coast of Rolleboise. At the exit of Bonnières, the junction with the Trunk road is 15 which follows the Seine for Rouen and Le Havre, while the layout of the RN 13 directs full west towards Évreux. After the crossing of a13 highway to Limekiln-the-Bonnières, its layout is quasi rectilinear, inflecting only during the skirting of Pacy-sur-Eure to the crossing of the valley of the the Eure. The decree of December 5th, 2005 maintains in the domestic network the layout between the crossing of the has 13 and Parville, via the future deviation of Évreux and that of Parville.

The deviation of Évreux exists currently only in a partial way, between the exchanger with RN 154 in the East (still incomplete beginning 2007) close to the new zone of activities of the Long Bush and the departure of old RN 154 towards Nonancourt on the level of the district of the Madeleine. This road is currently numbered RN 1013 . The completion of this by-pass towards Parville is still in project and should not be born before several years. The deviation of Parville is currently under development.

Évreux - Lisieux (D613 starting from Parville and in the Apple-brandy since 2006)

The RN 13 is made of long straight lines crossing of the cereal plates, with the variation of the villages, the only singular point being the crossing of the valley of the Risle to the River-Thibouville, locality circumvented by the road.

Lisieux

For the recent installation of the by-pass, it was necessary to cross Lisieux by the center while borrowing:
  • current D406
  • to descend the Road from Paris
  • the Street of Paris then the Avenue Jeanne d' Arc (D579 ex Trunk road 179)
  • the Boulevard Holy Anne (still called N13)
  • the Avenue of June 6th and the Road of Caen

Before still one crossed the center completely by borrowing the Street of Paris then the Avenue Henry Chéron and the Avenue of June 6th.

Lisieux - Caen (D613 since April 2006)

The layout is more tortuous and crosses many villages. It joined that of the Autoroute of Normandy at the entry of Caen to height of Mondeville. The crossing of Caen can be avoided thanks to a ring of highway skirting.

Caen (D613)

For the construction of the peripheral, it was necessary to cross Caen by the center by borrowing current D613
  • to descend the Avenue Pierre Mendès France
  • the Avenue from Paris
  • the Boulevard Leroy
  • the Boulevard of the Marshal Lyautey
  • the Way of Undermined the
  • the Boulevard from Trotted
  • the Boulevard Yves Guillou
  • the Boulevard Andre Detolle
  • the Street of Bayeux
  • the Street of the General Mill
  • the Road of Bayeux (D9a)

Caen - Cherbourg

Main road 13 is arranged in form of expressway to 2×2 ways and approaches the Littoral of the Manche. It passes by Bayeux, Isigny-on-Sea, Carentan, Holy-Mother-Church and Valognes, in particular crossing the Regional natural park of the Marshes of Cotentin and Bessin.

On the section Caen - Carentan, it also bears the name of E46.

In Carentan, it is joined by the future expressway NR 174 E03.

On the section Carentan - Cherbourg it thus carries in more the name of E03.

The arrival with Cherbourg-Octeville is done by several routes. That concerned with the trunk road 13 altered by the reform of 2006 will include/understand the by-pass is called NR 132.

External bonds

  • Installation of the road in the English Channel

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