Autoroute A 5

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	Autoroute A5 in France
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	Basic data
Operator:	APRR
Overall length:	238 km
Regions :	Île-de-France; Bourgogne-Franche-Comté; Grand Est;
	The A5 near Troyes.

The Autoroute A5 is a 238 km long motorway between the Francilienne Paris ring road and the Langres plateau . It was built from 1990 to reduce traffic jams on the A 6 and to relieve them.

The motorway is tolled and operated by Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhône (APRR) .

The following European roads run along this motorway: E 54 , E 17 and E 511 . Before construction began on the A 5, the section between Troyes and Langres belonged to the A 26 .

history

1983: Commissioning of the section from the Beauchemin exit to Semoutiers, as part of the then A 26
1990: Commissioning of the Troyes- Semoutiers section (77 km, also under the name A 26)
1993: Commissioning of the Melun - Sens section with a length of 58 km
1993: Commissioning of the five-kilometer section between the motorway junction at Sens (A 5 and A 19 ) and the N 6 (national road 6), (future A 19, then part of the A 5)
1994: Commissioning of the Sens-Troyes section (67 km)
1994: Commissioning of the 16 km long connection to the north to Francilienne (A 5b, in future A 105 )
1995: Commissioning of the nine-kilometer connection to the west to Francilienne (A 5a)

The designations A 5a and A 5b are still used today.

Project

The government gave the green light for a continuation of the A5 from Langres to Mulhouse . This route is currently planned as the A 319 . The new toll station in Vesoul (opening in 2018) will cover part of the costs , the rest of the section will be paid for by the French state. It will be built as a four-lane motorway along the N 19 to the A 36 between Belfort and Montbéliard.

Web links

Autoroute A 5 in the German and French versions of the SARATLAS
Autoroute A 5 on WikiSara (French)