A6 autoroute facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
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| Route information | |
Part of      E 5 / E 15 / E 21 / E 50 / E 60 |
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| Maintained by DIR Centre-Est between Lyon and Limonest; APRR between Limonest and Cély; DIR île-De-France between Cély and Paris | |
| Length | 445.6 km (276.9 mi) |
| Existed | 1960–present |
| Major junctions | |
| West end | Paris (Porte d' Italie & Porte de Gentilly) |
| Highway system | |
| Autoroutes of France | |
The A6, also called the Autoroute du Soleil (Autoroute of the Sun) along with the A7 in French, is an autoroute (motorway) in France. It links Paris with Lyon. It is used as part of the main road between Paris and Southern France. It joins onto the A7 towards Marseille. The autoroute is the third longest in France, after the A10 and the A4. It is about 446 kilometres (277 mi) long.
Exits and junctions
| # | Destinations | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Boulevard Périphérique Intérieur - Porte d'Arcueil | northbound exit and southbound entrance | |
| RN20 - Porte d'Orléans | northbound exit and southbound entrance | |
| Boulevard Périphérique Extérieur | northbound exit and southbound entrance | |
| slow vehicles; all directions (A6b south) | southbound exit and northbound entrance | |
| A6b north - Metz; Nancy; Lille; Villejuif; Arcueil; Périphérique east; Porte d'Italie | northbound exit and southbound entrance | |
| A106 south - Aéroport Orly | southbound exit and northbound entrance | |
| 3 | Rungis | southbound exit and northbound entrance |
| A10 south - Palaiseau; Étampes; Bordeaux; Nantes; Massy; Longjumeau | southbound exit and northbound entrance | |
| A6b north - Versailles; Antony; Lille; Metz; Nancy; Rungis; Aéroport Orly; Créteil | northbound exit and southbound entrance; A6a becomes A6 southbound and begins northbound | |
| to A10 - Palaiseau; Massy; Wissous (A126) | northbound exit and southbound entrance | |
| 5 | Chilly-Mazarin; Morangis; Longjumeau | |
| 6 | Savigny-sur-Orge; Épinay-sur-Orge; Morsang-sur-Orge; Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois | |
| 7 | Viry-Châtillon; Fleury-Mérogis (N445) | southbound exit and northbound entrance |
| 7.1 | Grigny; Ris-Orangis; Viry-Châtillon (N440; N441) | |
| N104 west to A13; to A10 - Rouen; Bordeaux; Nantes; Versailles; Évry-Centre; Courcouronnes; Bondoufle (N440; N441; N449) | ||
| N104 east to A5; to A1 - Troyes; Corbeil-Essonnes; Sénart; Melun; Marne-la-Vallée; Lisses-Centre; Évry; Courcouronnes (N446) | ||
| 9 | Villabé; Évry-Lisses Z.I.; Mennecy | |
| 10 | Corbeil-Essonnes-Centre; Mennecy (N191) | northbound exit and southbound entrance |
| 11 | Le Coudray-Montceaux; Mennecy; Auvernaux | southbound exit and northbound entrance |
| 12 | Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry (N337) | southbound exit and northbound entrance |
| to N7 - Fontainebleau (N37) | southbound exit and northbound entrance | |
| 13 | Étampes; Melun; Milly-la-Forêt | |
| 14 | Malesherbes (N152) | |
| 15 | Fontainebleau (N7 north) | northbound exit and southbound entrance |
| 16 | Montereau-Fault-Yonne; Nemours | |
| A77 south - Nevers; Montargis | southbound exit and northbound entrance | |
| 17 | E60 west - Montargis; Orléans; Courtenay; Villeneuve-sur-Yonne (N60) | |
| A19 to A5 - Paris; Sens; Troyes | ||
| 18 | Joigny; Toucy; Villeneuve-sur-Yonne; Charny; Châteaurenard | |
| 19 | Auxerre; Joigny; Migennes (N6) | |
| 20 | Tonnerre; Auxerre (N65) | |
| 21 | Nitry; Montbard; Vézelay; Tonnerre | |
| 22 | Avallon; Saulieu (N146) | |
| 23 | Bierre-lès-Semur; Semur-en-Auxois; Saulieu; Montbard | |
| A38 - Dijon; Autun; Saulieu; Pouilly-en-Auxois | ||
| 24 | Beaune-Centre; Savigny-lès-Beaune; Beaune-Saint-Nicolas (N74) | |
| A31 to A36; to A5 - Lille; Metz; Nancy; Besançon; Dijon (E60 east) | ||
| 24.1 | Beaune-Centre; Chagny; Beaune-Hospices (N470) | |
| 25 | Chalon-Nord; Chalon-sur-Saône; Autun; Châtenoy-le-Royal; Chagny | |
| 26 | Chalon-Sud; Chalon-sur-Saône; Le Creusot; Montceau-les-Mines; Lons-le-Saunier (N80) | |
| 27 | Tournus (N6) | |
| 28 | Mâcon-Nord; Mâcon; Bourg-en-Bresse; Pont-de-Vaux (N72) | |
| A40 - Milan; Geneva; Bourg-en-Bresse | southbound exit and northbound entrance | |
| 29 | Mâcon-Sud; Mâcon; Moulins; Charnay-lès-Mâcon; Thoissey; Cluny; Charolles (N79) | |
| 30 | Belleville; Thoissey; Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne | |
| 31 | Villefranche-sur-Saône; Jassans-Riottier | |
| 32 | Anse; Quincieux | southbound exit and northbound entrance (no toll-free access) |
| 33 | Limonest; Dardilly; Porte de Lyon | beginning of a toll-free, publicly managed section (south) |
| 34 | Techlid; Champagne-Au-Mont-D'or | |
| 35 | Écully; Dardilly; Champagne-Au-Mont-D'or; La Duchère | |
| 36 | Tassin-La-Demi-Lune; RN7 towards A89 | |
| 37 | Tassin-La-Demi-Lune | northbound exit, southbound and northbound entrances |
| 39a | Vieux Lyon | |
| 39b | Lyon-Centre, Perrache | towards south only, no northbound exit |
| 39c | Lyon-Part-Dieu |
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A6b
| # | Destinations | Notes |
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| Périphérique outer - Metz; Nancy; Lille | northbound exit and southbound entrance | |
| 1 | Porte d'Italie | northbound exit and southbound entrance |
| 2 | D61 - Villejuif; Arcueil; Le Kremlin-Bicêtre | northbound exit and southbound entrance |
| A6a north - Rouen; Paris-Centre; Périphérique inner; Porte d'Orléans | northbound exit and southbound entrance | |
| A106 south - Aéroport Orly | southbound exit and northbound entrance | |
| 3 | Rungis | southbound exit and northbound entrance |
| A86 west; N186 west - Antony; l'Haÿ-les-Roses; Versailles; Fresnes; Chevilly-Larue | northbound exit and southbound entrance | |
| A86 east; N186 east - Lille; Metz; Nancy; Créteil; Aéroport Orly; other sectors of Rungis | no southbound exit | |
| A10 south - Palaiseau; Étampes; Bordeaux; Nantes; Massy; Longjumeau | southbound exit and northbound entrance |
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