Autoroute A 31

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	Autoroute A31 in France
	Basic data
Operator:	APRR
further operator:	DIR Est
Overall length:	349 km
Regions :	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté; Grand Est;
	The A 31 coming shortly after the border from Luxembourg

The Autoroute A 31 is a 349 kilometer French motorway beginning in Beaune and ending in Zoufftgen on the border with Luxembourg .

course

The northern part of the A 31 (117 kilometers) is toll-free throughout and connects the cities of Thionville, Metz, Nancy and Toul, and offers connections to Luxembourg (and thus Germany and Belgium) as well as to the A 4 between Paris and Saarbrücken. The speed limits are between 90 and a maximum of 110 km / h. With up to 100,000 vehicles per day, this part of the A31 is one of the busiest roads in France. Due to the high volume of traffic and moderate public funding, the condition of the road is not always perfect. However, this has been countered in recent years with numerous improvement measures. Since this section of the motorway is an important traffic artery in northeastern France, it is notoriously congested and in poor condition, plans have been made since 1990 to create a new motorway, the A 32, to relieve the traffic. However, this project was dropped in 2010 in favor of a three-lane expansion of the northern A31.

The southern part of the A 31 (232 kilometers) is toll road all the way and serves primarily as a connection between north-east France and Dijon and Lyon, as well as the A 6 coming from Paris and connecting to the Mediterranean coast and Spain. Accordingly, traffic there is stronger during the holiday season but otherwise very weak. Since this section is located in a sparsely populated, heavily agricultural zone of France and the motorway extensively bypasses all cities along the route, it is rather monotonous - especially at night. Due to the low volume of traffic and the financing through tolls, the route is in very good condition. The speed limit is continuously 130 km / h.

toll

The motorway is toll-free from the border with Luxembourg to Toul. The toll area begins in Toul at the Gye toll station ( Péage de Gye ) and extends south to the transition to the A 6 at Beaune. Since the A 6 is also operated by the operating company APRR, there is no additional toll station there. The price for driving through the toll area starts at € 17.70.

Surname

In connection with the common practice in France of giving important motorways an additional name (e.g. “Autoroute du Soleil” for the A 6), the A 31 is called “Autoroute Lorraine-Bourgogne”, in English “Autobahn Lorraine” -Burgundy".

history

?. ? 1963: opening of the Metz center - Hauconcourt (exit 33 - 35)
?. ? 1964: Opening of Hauconcourt - Mondelange (exit 35 - 37)
?. ? 1965: Opening Mondelange - Richemont (exit 37 - A 30)
?. ? 1968: Opening of Maxéville - Frouard (exit 20-22)
?. ? 1970: Opening of Frouard - Belleville (exit 22-25)
?. December 1971: opening of the Augny - Metz center (departures 30 - 33)
?. September 1972: Belleville - Atton opened (Departures 25-27)
?. December 1972: Opening Atton - Augny (Departures 27 - 30)
?. March 1973: Dommartin-lès-Toul - Gondreville opens (departure 15-16)
?. June 1973: Opening of Laxou - Maxéville (A 33 - exit 20)
?. June 1973: Opening of Gondreville - Laxou (exit 16 - A 33)
?. January 1974: Illange - Thionville opens (departure 37.2 - 39)
October 22, 1974: Opening Beaune - Dijon (A 6 - A 311)
January 31, 1975: Richemont - Illange opens (A 30 - exit 37.2)
July 14, 1981: Opening of Élange - Luxembourg border (Exit 43 - A3 (Luxembourg))
June 26, 1983: Opening Til-Châtel - Montigny-le-Roi (Departures 5 - 8)
4th June 1984: opening of Toul - Montigny-le-Roi (N 4 - exit 8)
?. ? 1985: opening of Toul - Dommartin-lès-Toul (N 4 - exit 15)
?. ? 1988: opening of Thionville - Élange (exit 39 - 43)
June 23, 1989: Opening Dijon - Til-Châtel (A 311 - Exit 5)

Big cities on the highway

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.aprr.fr/fr/preparation_au_voyage/itineraires/tarifs Retrieved November 2010

Web links

Autoroute A 31 in German and French versions of the SARATLAS
Map of the current traffic situation (French)

[1] ttp://www.aprr.fr/fr/preparation_au_voyage/itineraires/tarifs Retrieved November 2010