Route main road 5

The trunk road 5 , or RN 5 , is a trunk road French connecting until in 2006 Dijon to the border free Suisse. Within the framework of the transfers of the trunk roads to the departments of 2006, it was displaced between Dijon and Poligny and between Russet-red the and Saint-Gingolph via Geneva. Historically, it started from Paris.

See the layout of the RN5 on GoogleMaps

History

Of all the national main roads, the RN5 is one of those (with RN16) which suffered the most from vagueness of renumerotation from the Années 1970. Indeed until 1978, this one connected Paris to the Suisse. It comprised even a route (a), RN5bis (today RN 105, renumbered RD 605 since 2007) between Melun and Montereau in order to avoid the crossing of Moret-sur-Loing to the heavy trucks.

The wave of downgradings of 2006 still reduced the length of this road, which measures nothing any more but a few tens of kilometers in the the Jura! The section between Direction and Dijon really appreciated forever users, because of the crossing of many villages: those preferred to join Dijon to borrow the RN6 regularly from 3 ways until Avallon then RN70. The arrival of the A6 and especially of the A38 marked the death-blow for the central section which was finally displaced in D905 in 1978. By preoccupation with a cohesion, the Paris section - Direction was re-elected in RN6, but for many inhabitants of the areas of Melun or Fontainebleau for example, it is not rare to make the amalgam between the 5 and the 6 more.

Nowadays, only the section going of Poligny to the Rousses remains, maintained in the domestic network after the downgradings of 2006.

Direction in Dijon (D 905)

The common crossings are:

From Dijon with Dole (D 905)

The common crossings are:

Of Pares in Geneva (partially displaced)

The common crossings are:

The road in Switzerland takes the name of N3

From Geneva with Saint-Gingolph (D1005)

The common crossings are:

Bonds

On my road (site devoted to the RN5)

Random links:Cai He | Louis-Philippe Kamm | Denby Paves | Gan-Shmuel | Ancolie of Canada | Extrêmement_-_basse_fréquence