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A6 autoroute, L'autoroute du Soleil, France
Map of French A5 motorway. 
The A6, also known as the Autoroute du Soleil, Motorway of the Sun, (along with the A7), is an Autoroute in France, linking Paris to Lyon. The motorway starts at Paris's Porte d'Orléans and Porte d'Italie with two branches, numbered A6a and A6b respectively, that join south of Paris.
A6 autoroute is part of the European routes E5, E15, E21, E50 and E60.
The motorway is favoured by holidaymakers as it is the main link to the South of France and the French Riviera. At 455km long it is France's third longest autoroute after the A10 autoroute and the A4 autoroute.
The A6 motorway used to be prone to severe traffic jams around Fourvière Tunnel near Lyon prior to the opening in 1992 of A46 autoroute and in 2011 of the A432 autoroute which is also called the "Contournement de Lyon" and known as the "Lyon Rocade Est".
Length: 445.6 km (276.9 mi)
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:
— West end: Paris (Porte d' Italie & Porte de Gentilly)
Source
• www.wikipedia.org
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