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A13 autoroute, L'Autoroute de Normandie, France
Map of French A13 motorway. 
Autoroute 13, or L'Autoroute de Normandie links Paris to Caen, Calvados.
The motorway starts in Paris at the Porte d'Auteuil, a former gate of the Paris walls, and ends at Mondeville's Mondeville 2 exchange junction on Caen's ring road. The A13 is France's oldest motorway (opening in 1946) and is intensively used between Paris and Normandy for both commuting and holiday makers.
The A13 is operated by the Société des Autoroutes de Paris Normandie from Buchelay toll onwards, whilst the Parisian stretch of motorway is operated by the Île-de-France Council. Its total length is 225 km (140 mi). The A13 is toll-free within the Île-de-France region and between junctions 21 and 24 to the south of Rouen.
Length: 225 km (140 mi)
Major cities: Mantes-la-Jolie, Rouen, Pont-l'Évêque, Caen
Speed limit: France has the following speed limits for limited access roads classified as motorways:
• Under normal conditions - 130 km/h (80 mph)
• In rain or wet road conditions - 110 km/h (70 mph)
• In heavy fog or snowy/icy conditions - 50 km/h (30 mph)
Limited access roads classified as express roads have lower speed limit (90 or 110 km/h, 55 or 70 mph).
In normal conditions, there is a minimum speed of 80 km/h (50 mph) in the lane most left (no minimum speed on the others' right lanes, but speed should be adapted for each situation: not too slow).
Junctions
The motorway links to the following additional motorways and major roads:
— East end: Périphérique, Paris
— Junction 6: A12 autoroute
— Junction 7: A14 autoroute
— Junction 19: A154 autoroute
— Junction 22: A139 autoroute
— A28 autoroute
— A29 autoroute
— Junction 27: A131 autoroute
— Junction 29: A132 autoroute
— West end: Caen
Source
• www.wikipedia.org
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