A40 autoroute

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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 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.

Nomenclature

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A trilingual sign written: "Welcome to the 'White MotorwayTemplate:' " 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

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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.

External links

• A40 autoroute in Saratlas

Region	Department	Junction	Destinations	Notes
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	Saône-et-Loire	File:Sinnbild Autobahnkreuz.svg A6 - A40	Paris, Dijon, Chalon-sur-Saône
		Exit 1 : Mâcon-centre	Mâcon
	Ain	Exit 2 : Feillens	Saint-Laurent-sur-Saône, Pont-de-Vaux, Feillens, Replonges
		Exit 3 : Replonges	Pont-de-Veyle, Vonnas, Replonges, Saint-Laurent-sur-Saône, Bourg-en-Bresse, Bâgé-Dommartin
		File:Sinnbild Autobahnkreuz.svg A406 - A40	Moulins, Montceau-les-Mines, Mâcon - sud
		File:Aire de pique-nique.png Aire des Planons (Eastbound) File:Aire de pique-nique.png Aire du musée de la Bresse (Westbound)
		Exit 4 : Saint-Genis-sur-Menthon	Vonnas, Saint-Genis-sur-Menthon
		Exit 5 : Bourg-en-Bresse - nord	Montrevel-en-Bresse, Viriat, Attignat, Bourg-en-Bresse - centre
		File:Sinnbild Autobahnkreuz.svg A39 - A40	Metz-nancy, Strasbourg, Lons-le-Saunier, Lille, Dijon, Paris (A5)
		Exit 6 : Viriat	Bourg-en-Bresse - centre, Bourg-en-Bresse - est, Saint-Étienne-du-Bois, Val-Revermont, Viriat
		File:Aire d'autoroute - station essence.png Aire de Bourg Teyssonge (Eastbound) File:Aire d'autoroute - station essence.png Aire de Bourg Jasseron (Westbound)
		Exit 7 : Bourg-en-Bresse - sud	Bourg-en-Bresse - centre, Tossiat, Ceyzériat, Péronnas
		File:Aire de pique-nique.png Aire de Certines (Eastbound) File:Aire de pique-nique.png Aire de Tossiat (Westbound)
		File:Sinnbild Autobahnkreuz.svg A42 - A40	Lyon, Chambéry, Grenoble, Saint Exupéry
		File:Aire de pique-nique.png Aire de Neuville-sur-Ain (Westbound)
		File:Aire d'autoroute - station essence.png Aire de Ceignes-Cerdon (Eastbound) File:Aire d'autoroute - station essence.png Aire de Ceignes-Haut-Bugey (Westbound)
		Exit 8 : Saint-Martin-du-Fresne  + File:Sinnbild Autobahnkreuz.svg A404 - A40	Plateau d'Hauteville, Saint-Martin-du-Fresne
			Oyonnax, Nantua
		Exit 9 : Sylans	Saint-Germain-de-Joux, Nantua, Lac de Sylans
			File:Aire de pique-nique.png Aire du Lac (Eastbound) File:Aire de pique-nique.png Aire des Neyrolles (Westbound)
		File:Aire de pique-nique.png Aire de La Michaille (Eastbound) File:Aire de pique-nique.png Aire de La Semine (Westbound)
		Exit 10 : Bellegarde	Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, Châtillon-en-Michaille
	Haute-Savoie	Exit 11 : Éloise	Seyssel, Frangy, Éloise, Rumilly, Annecy
		File:Aire d'autoroute - station essence.png Aire de Valleiry
		File:Péage.png Péage de Viry
		Exit 13 : Saint-Julien-en-Genevois	Cruseilles, Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, Annecy
		File:Sinnbild Autobahnkreuz.svg A41 - A40	Cointrin, Lausanne, Genève - centre, Grenoble, Annecy, Cruseilles
		Exit 13.1 : Archamps	Collonges-sous-Salève, Archamps, Technopôle
		File:Aire de pique-nique.png Aire du Télégraphe de Salève (Westbound)
		File:Sinnbild Autobahnkreuz.svg A411 - A40 + Exit 14 : Annemasse	Genève - Vallard, Gaillard
			Annemasse, Reigner-Ésery
		File:Péage.png Péage de Nangy + File:Aire de pique-nique.png Aire de Nangy - sud (Eastbound) File:Aire de pique-nique.png Aire de Nangy - nord (Westbound)
		Exit 15 : Vallee Verte	Thonon-les-Bains, Évian-les-Bains, Saint-Jeoire, Vallée Verte, Reignier-Esery
		File:Sinnbild Autobahnkreuz.svg A410 - A40	La Roche-sur-Foron, Annecy, Grenoble (A41), Lyon (A43)
		Exit 16 : Bonneville - ouest	Bonneville - centre, Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny, La Roche-sur-Foron
		File:Aire d'autoroute - station essence.png  Aire de Bonneville
		Exit 17 : Bonneville-est	Thyez, Marignier, Bonneville - Z. I
		Exit 18 : Scionzier	Morzine-Avoriaz, Les Gets, Samoëns, Cluses - ouest
		Exit 19 : Cluses	Flaine, Magland, Les Carroz d'Arâches, Cluses - centre, C.R. des Douanes
		File:Péage.png Péage de Cluses
		Exit 20 : Sallanches	Albertville, Megève, Sallanches, Hôpital, Magland
		File:Aire de pique-nique.png Aire de Passy (Westbound)
		Exit 21 : Passy	Passy - centre, Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
		Exit 22 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains	Passy - Chedde, Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, Albertville
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