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A6 autoroute

Controlled-access motorway from Paris to Lyon, France

A6 autoroute

Summary

Controlled-access motorway from Paris to Lyon, France

FieldValue
countryFRA
alternate_nameAutoroute du Soleil
typeA
route6
maint:
DIR Île-De-France between Wissous and Lisses;
APRR between Lisses and Limonest;
length_km445.6
established1960
direction_aWest
direction_bEast
terminus_ain Wissous (Paris)
terminus_bin Limonest
junction{{plainlist
*{{JctcountryFRAA77dab1=}} in Poligny
*{{JctcountryFRAE60E511A19dab1=}} in Piffonds
*{{JctcountryFRAA38dab1=}} in Pouilly-en-Auxois
*{{JctcountryFRAE17E21A31dab1=}} in Beaune
*{{JctcountryFRAE21A40dab1=}} in Sancé
*{{JctcountryFRAE62A406dab1=}} in Mâcon
*{{JctcountryFRAE15A46dab1=}} in Ambérieux
*{{JctcountryFRAE70A466dab1=}} in Les Chères
*{{JctcountryFRAE70A89dab1=}} in Limonest (Lyon)
e-road

DIR Île-De-France between Wissous and Lisses; APRR between Lisses and Limonest;

  • in Poligny
  • in Piffonds
  • in Pouilly-en-Auxois
  • in Beaune
  • in Sancé
  • in Mâcon
  • in Ambérieux
  • in Les Chères
  • in Limonest (Lyon) |e-road=

The A6 autoroute (French: Autoroute A6), also known simply as the A6 or, along with the A7, as the Autoroute du Soleil (; English: Motorway of the Sun), is an autoroute (motorway) 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, which join south of Paris. At Limonest ahead of Lyon, it becomes the M6.

A6a and A6b at Paris

The motorway is favoured by holidaymakers as it is the main link to the South of France (A7) and the French Riviera (A8). 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 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.

List of Exits and Junctions

A6a

References

  1. link. (July 20, 2011)
  2. [http://www.info-autoroute.com/wmestre.html c.chauplannaz] {{webarchive. link. (July 13, 2011)
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