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A7 autoroute, L'autoroute du Soleil, France
Map of French A7 motorway. 
The A7 Autoroute, also known as l'autoroute du Soleil (The Motorway of the Sun) is a French motorway. It continues the A6 and links Lyon to Marseille. The autoroute du Soleil is 302.5 km (188.0 mi) long and forms part of European routes E15, E80, and E714.
Length: 302.5 km (188.0 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:
— North end: Lyon ( A 6)
— A 46 near Lyon
— A 46 near Chasse-sur-Rhône
— A 9 near Orange
— A 54 near Salon-de-Provence
— A 8 in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
— A 55 in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
— A 51 in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
— A 507 in Marseille
— A 557 in Marseille
— South end: Marseille (Porte d'Aix)
Péages (Tolls)
• Péage de Vienne
• Péage de Lançon de Provence
Traffic
This autoroute is fairly heavy throughout the year. Much of the transit of heavy goods between northern France and the Benelux countries and Germany and the Mediterranean passes through the Rhône valley, and thus along the A7. Traffic is also generated by local transit around the larger cities of the region (Lyon, Vienne, Valence, Orange, Avignon).
During holiday periods, traffic is particularly congested, southbound at the beginning of holidays, northbound at the end. The last week-end of July and the first week-end of August are particularly crowded in both directions; jams can occasionally stretch for hundreds of kilometers.
Source
• www.wikipedia.org
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