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{{short description|Highway in Quebec}}
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{{Infobox road
|province=QC
|type=Autoroute
|route=13
|alternate_name=Autoroute Chomedey
|maint=[[Transports Québec]]
|map={{maplink-road |from=Quebec Autoroute 13.map }}
|map_custom=yes
|map_notes=A-13 highlighted in red
|length_km=21.9
|length_ref=<ref name=length>{{google maps|title=Autoroute 13|url=https://www.google.com/maps/@45.514347,-73.8305768,11.92z|access-date=November 10, 2020}}</ref>
|length_round=1
|established=1975<ref name=A13>{{cite web|url=http://www1.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/fr/repertoire_autoroute/autoroute.asp|title=Répertoire des autoroutes du Québec|language=fr|publisher=[[Transports Québec]]|access-date=2008-02-23|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111145001/http://www1.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/fr/repertoire_autoroute/autoroute.asp|archive-date=2010-01-11}}</ref>
|direction_a=South
|direction_b=North
|terminus_a={{jct|state=QC|A|20}} in [[Montréal]]
|junction={{jct|state=QC|A|520}} in [[Dorval]]<br>{{jct|state=QC|TCH|40}} in Montreal<br>{{jct|state=QC|A|440|dab1=Laval}} in [[Laval, Quebec|Laval]]
|terminus_b={{jct|state=QC|A|640}} in [[Boisbriand, Quebec|Boisbriand]]
|previous_type=A
|previous_route=10
|next_type=A
|next_route=15
|cities = [[Montréal]], [[Laval, Quebec|Laval]], [[Boisbriand, Quebec|Boisbriand]], [[Dorval]]
}}

[[File:Highway 13 north to St. Jerome - panoramio.jpg|alt=|thumb|220x220px|Highway 13 north to St. Jerome]]

'''Autoroute 13''' (or '''A-13''', also known as '''Autoroute Chomedey''' with sections formerly known as '''Autoroute Mirabel'''), is a [[freeway]] in the urban region of [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], [[Canada]]. Its southern end is at the junction of [[Quebec Autoroute 20|A-20]] on the [[Island of Montreal]] near [[Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport|Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport]]. Its northern terminus is at the junction of [[Quebec Autoroute 640|A-640]] near [[Boisbriand, Quebec|Boisbriand]]. The road traverses [[Laval, Quebec|Laval]]. A-13 is mostly six-laned and tolls were removed.

Autoroute 13 was originally built as a [[toll road|toll highway]] in 1975, ultimately to connect the two international airports, [[Montréal-Mirabel International Airport|Mirabel]] and Dorval (now [[Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport|Trudeau International Airport]]). However A-13 was not built beyond its interim terminus at A-640, leaving only [[Quebec Autoroute 15|A-15]] to connect Mirabel with Montréal island. 

The designation of Autoroute Chomedey refers to the community of [[Chomedey, Quebec|Chomedey]] in [[Laval, Quebec|Laval]], through which A-13 passes. Formerly, common usage was to refer to the autoroute as Autoroute Chomedey south of the [[Rivière des Mille Îles|Milles-Îles river]], and Autoroute Mirabel north of that point. In recent usage, however, the Autoroute Chomedey name is generally used for the full length of the autoroute. Boulevard Pitfield is routed as a parallel service road to A-13 in [[Saint-Laurent (borough)|St-Laurent]].

Boulevard Pitfield derives its name from the origin of the actual route. In the 1920s, the actual route was a Polo Pony Trail leading from the various estates of the [[Saraguay|Saraguay Village]] residents to their Polo Fields, now where the area of St. Laurent Blvd and Bois Franc merge.  In the late 1930s the path became an unpaved local road. Over the next several decades Saraguay Farms, owned by Mrs. W.C. Pitfield, was paid to clear the road in the winter by the municipality of St. Laurent. The road was developed into a two-lane highway in the 1960s.

The Quebec provincial government was planning to extend Autoroute 13 north of [[Quebec Autoroute 640|A-640]] in the late 1990s as an alternate route for [[Quebec Autoroute 15|A-15]] ([[Autoroute Décarie]]/[[Autoroute des Laurentides]]).
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==Exit list==
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{{QCint|exit
|division=Montréal
|dspan=6
|location=Montréal
|lspan=2
|km=0.0
|exit=1
|road={{jct|province=QC|A|20|name1=Autoroute du Souvenir|road|32 Avenue|road|rue Victoria|location1=[[Downtown Montreal|Centre-Ville Montréal]]|city2=Aéroport P.-E.-Trudeau|location3=[[Toronto]]|extra=airport}}
|notes=Exit 60 on A-20
}}
{{QCint|exit
|km=1.7
|exit=2
|road=Rue Hickmore&nbsp;/ Rue Louis-A.-Amos
|notes=
}}
{{QCint|exit
|location_special=[[Montréal]]–[[Dorval, Quebec|Dorval]]
|lspan=2
|km=3.2
|exit=3
|road={{jct|province=QC|A|520|name1=Autoroute de la Côte-de-Liesse|city1=Aéroport P.-E.-Trudeau|extra=airport}}
|notes=Signed as exits 3E (east) and 3O (west); exit 4 on A-520
}}
{{jcttunnel|exit
|km=3.8
|km2=4.2
|tunnel=Tunnel under [[Montréal–Trudeau International Airport]]
}}
{{QCint|exit
|location=Montréal
|lspan=2
|km=6.1
|exit=6
|road={{jct|province=QC|TCH|40|location1=[[Ottawa]]|location2=[[Gatineau]]|location3=[[Quebec City|Québec]]}}
|notes=Exit 60 on A-40
}}
{{QCint|exit
|km=7.5
|km2=8.8
|exit=8
|road=[[Henri Bourassa Boulevard|Boulevard Henri-Bourassa]]&nbsp;/ [[Gouin Boulevard|Boulevard Gouin]]
|notes=
}}
{{jctbridge|exit
|river=[[Rivière des Prairies]]
|km=9.1
|km2=9.6
|bridge=[[Louis Bisson Bridge|Pont Louis Bisson]]
}}
{{QCint|exit
|indep_city_special=[[Laval, Quebec|Laval]]
|lspan=7
|exit=12
|espan=2
|km=10.1
|type=incomplete
|road=Boulevard Samson&nbsp;/ Boulevard Notre-Dame&nbsp;/ Boulevard Saint-Martin
|notes=Northbound exit; south end of [[collector/distributor lane]]s
}}
{{QCint
|km=13.3
|type=incomplete
|road=Boulevard Samson&nbsp;/ Boulevard Notre-Dame
|notes=Southbound exit
}}
{{QCint|exit
|exit=15
|espan=3
|km=14.0
|km2=16.5
|kspan=3
|road={{jct|province=QC|A|440|QC|148|dab1=Laval|to2=yes|name1=Autoroute Jean-Noël-Lavoie|name2=Avenue des Bois}}
|notes=Exit 17 on A-440
}}
{{QCint
|km=none
|type=incomplete
|road=Boulevard Dagenais
|notes=Northbound exit
}}
{{QCint
|km=none
|type=incomplete
|road=Boulevard Saint-Martin
|notes=Southbound exit
}}
{{QCint|exit
|type=incomplete
|exit=17
|km=16.8
|road=Boulevard Sainte-Rose
|notes=Northbound exit
}}
{{QCint|exit
|type=incomplete
|exit=17
|km=18.4
|road=Boulevard Dagenais&nbsp;/ Boulevard Sainte-Rose
|notes=Southbound exit; north end of [[collector/distributor lane]]s
}}
{{jctbridge|exit
|km=18.6
|km2=19.4
|river=[[Rivière des Mille Îles]]
|bridge={{ill|Pont Vachon|fr}}
}}
{{QCint|exit
|county=Thérèse-De Blainville
|cspan=2
|location=Boisbriand
|lspan=2
|exit=20
|km=20.2
|road={{jct|province=QC|QC|344|name1=Chemin de la Grande-Côte|city1=Boisbriand|city2=Saint-Eustache}}
|notes=
}}
{{QCint|exit
|exit=22
|km=21.9
|road={{jct|province=QC|A|640|city1=Repentigny|city2=Saint-Eustache|city3=Oka}}
|notes=Signed as exits 22E (east) and 22O (west); exit 16 on A-640
}}
{{jctbtm|exit|keys=incomplete}}

*Lowest Annual Average Daily Traffic: 38 000 (between [[Quebec Route 344|R-344]] and [[Quebec Autoroute 640|A-640]] in 2000)
*Highest Annual Average Daily Traffic: 140 000 (between [[Quebec Autoroute 40|A-40]] and [[Quebec Autoroute 440 (Quebec City)|A-440]] in 2000)<!-- What is this doing here??? -->

== References ==
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== External links ==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130628102442/http://www1.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/ Transport Quebec website]
*[http://www.inforoutiere.qc.ca/fr/carte_routiere/index.asp Transport Quebec map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517091109/http://www.inforoutiere.qc.ca/fr/carte_routiere/index.asp |date=2008-05-17 }} {{in lang|fr}}
*[https://www.motorways-exits.com/north_america/cdn/qc/a13.html A-13 at motorways-exits.com]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090204114137/http://webfil_92.tripod.com/autoroutes_en/id5.html A-13 at Quebec Autoroutes]
*[http://www.montrealroads.com/roads/A-13 Steve Anderson's MontrealRoads.com: Chomedey Autoroute (A-13)]

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[[Category:Quebec Autoroutes|13]]
[[Category:Roads in Montreal]]
[[Category:Former toll roads in Canada]]