A40 autoroute

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A40 autoroute shield
A40 autoroute
Autoroute des Titans
Autoroute Blanche
Route information
Part of E25 E60
Maintained by ATMB
Length205.9 km (127.9 mi)
Existed1973–present
Major junctions
West endAB-Kreuz.svg E15 / A6 at Mâcon
Major intersectionsAB-AS.svg 1 D906

AB-AS.svg 2 D68 / D68B / D933
AB-AS.svg 3 D1079 / D1179
AB-Kreuz.svg E62 / A406
AB-AS.svg 4 D47 / D1079
AB-AS.svg 5 D92 / D975 / D1479
AB-Kreuz.svg A39
AB-AS.svg 6 D52F / D1083
AB-AS.svg 7 D1075
AB-Kreuz.svg E611 / A42
AB-AS.svg 8 Saint Martin du Fresne A404 / D12 / D31 / D1084
AB-AS.svg 9 D1084
AB-AS.svg 10 Bellegarde D101
AB-AS.svg 11 D14 / D908A / D1508
AB-AS.svg 13 A41 / D1201
AB-AS.svg 13.1 D18 / D18B / D318 / D1206
AB-AS.svg 14 A411 / D2 / D906A / D1206
AB-AS.svg 15 Vallée Verte D903
AB-Kreuz.svg E712 / A410
AB-AS.svg 16 Bonneville D19 / D1203
AB-AS.svg 17 D19 / D1205
AB-AS.svg 18 D304 / D1205
AB-AS.svg 19 D1205
AB-AS.svg 20 D2105

AB-AS.svg 21 D39 / D339
East endAB-AS.svg N205 / D43 / D902 / D1205 at Passy
Location
CountryFrance
Highway system
  • Roads in France

The Autoroute A40 is a motorway in France that extends from Mâcon on the west to Passy on the east, terminating not far from Chamonix and the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The road runs 208 kilometres (129 mi) through Bresse, the high southern Jura Mountains, northern Prealps and French Alps. It was fully completed in 1990, and includes 12 viaducts and 3 tunnels. The road is maintained by Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhône (APRR and ATMB), comprising part of European routes E25 and E62.[1]

Nomenclature

A trilingual sign written: "Welcome to the 'White Motorway'" in the Rhône-Alpes region

Autoroute A40 is named Autoroute des Titans ("Highway of the Titans") for the dramatic engineering construction through the mountainous sections between Bourg-en-Bresse and Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, and as Autoroute Blanche ("the White Motorway") through the snow-laden Jura and Alps between Bellegarde-sur-Valserine and Annemasse on the Swiss border.

History

The Nantua viaduct on the "Highway of the Titans" of Autoroute A40

ATMB

  • 1973 : The section between Vallard and Bonneville was opened.
  • 1974 : The section between Bonneville and Cluses was opened.
  • 1975 : The section between Cluses and Sallanches was opened.
  • 1976 : The section between Sallanches-Passy was opened in a ceremony presided over by Prime Minister Jacques Chirac.
  • 1982 : The 50 kilometre section between Bellegarde and Annemasse is opened.

These sections were previously numbered B41.

APRR

  • 1985 : Section between Bourg-Nord and -Bourg-Sud (20 km) completed.
  • 1986 : Opening of section between Bourg-Sud and Sylans (Nantua) (61 km). The French President, François Mitterrand opened the motorway giving it the name L'Autoroute des Titans.
  • 1987 : Opening of the section Mâcon to Bourg-Nord (27 km)
  • 1989 : Opening of the section Sylans to Châtillon-en-Michaille (13 km)
  • 1990 : Opening of the junction between the A6 autoroute and the A40 (3 km)
  • 1995 : Widening of the Chamoise Tunnel and viaduct at Nantua and Neyrolles

The western section between the A6 and A42 was originally given the number F42. The whole road was re-numbered the A40 including a short section where the road merges with the A42.

Characteristics

The autoroute is made up of two lanes for each traffic direction except between its junctions with the A42 and A39 (21 km) where there are three lanes on each side.

Junctions

Exit/Junction Destination
  Exchange A6-A40 Motorway starts at junction with A6 to Paris (north), Lyon (south)
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 1  (Mâcon-centre) 2 km Towns served: Mâcon
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 2  (Feillens) 5 km Towns served: Pont-de-Vaux
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 3  (Pont-de-Veyle) 8 km Towns served:
Exchange A406-A40 Junction with A406 (under construction) to
Aire de pique-nique.png Rest Area: L'Étang Quinard (eastbound), Saint-André de Bagé (westbound)
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 4  (Vonnas) 18 km Towns served: Saint-Cyr-sur-Menthon, N79
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 5  (Bourg-Nord) 30 km Towns served: Bourg-en-Bresse
Exchange A39-A40 Junction with A39 to Dole (north)
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 6  (Lons-le-Saunier/Étienne-du-Bresse) 39 km Towns served: Bourg-en-Bresse, N83
Aire d'autoroute - station essence.png Service Area: Aire de Bourg
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 7  (Bourg-Sud) 50 km Towns served: Bourg-en-Bresse, N75
Aire de pique-nique.png Rest Area: Certines (eastbound), Tossiat (westbound)
Exchange A42-A40 Junction with the A42 to Lyon (south)
Aire de pique-nique.png Rest Area: Neuville-sur-Ain (westbound)
Aire d'autoroute - station essence.png Service area: Ceignes-Cerdon (westbound)
Aire de pique-nique.png Rest Area: Ceignes-Haut-Bugey (westbound)
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 8  (Nantua St-Martin du Fresne) 81 km Towns served: St Martin du Fresne
Exchange A404-A40 Junction with the A404 to Oyonnax
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 9  (Nantua les Neyrolles) 90 km Towns served: Nantua
Aire de pique-nique.png Rest area: Le Lac (eastbound), Les Neyrolles de Bagé (eastbound)
Aire de pique-nique.png Rest Area: La Michaille (westbound), La Semine (westbound)
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 10  (Bellegarde) 106 km Towns served: Bellegarde-sur-Valserine
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 11  (Frangy Seyssel) 115 km Towns served: Frangy, N508
Aire d'autoroute - station essence.png Service Area: Aire de Valleiry
Péage.png Péage de Viry
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 13  (Saint-Julien) 136 km Towns served: Saint-Julien-en-Genevois
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 13.1  (Parc d'Affaire Internationale) 138 km Towns served: Archamps
Aire de pique-nique.png Rest Area: Télégraphe de Salève
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 14  (Annemasse) 152 km Towns served: Geneva (Switzerland) via spur A411. Annemasse
Péage.png Péage de Nangy
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 15  (Boëge/Vallee Verte) 161 km Towns served: N503 to Thonon-les-Bains
Exchange A410-A40 Junction with the A410 to Annecy
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 16  (Bonneville-Ouest) 170 km Towns served: Bonneville
Aire d'autoroute - station essence.png Service Area: Aire de Bonneville
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 17  (Bonneville-Est) 174 km Towns served: Bonneville
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 18  (Cluses-Ouest) 183 km Towns served: Cluses
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 19  (Cluses-Centre) 188 km Towns served: Cluses
Péage.png Péage de Cluses
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 20  (Sallanches) 198 km Towns served: Sallanches
Aire de pique-nique.png Rest Area: Passy (westbound)
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 21  (Passy Chedde) 206 km Towns served: Megève, Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt.svg 22  (Passy) 208 km the autoroute ends becoming the N205 towards Chamonix and Turin (Italy)

References

  1. ^ "RN205: Between the Autoroute Blanche and the Mont Blanc Tunnel". ATMB. Archived from the original on 6 August 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2012.

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