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A9 autoroute, La Languedocienne / La Catalane, France
Map of French A9 motorway. 
The A9 autoroute (La Languedocienne/La Catalane) is a motorway in southern France.
The road forms part of the European route E15, as does the A9 road (Scotland). The road runs between Orange and Perthus, in the Pyrénées-Orientales at the frontier with Spain where it becomes the Autopista AP-7.
The route passes the following major towns and cities Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales), Narbonne (Aude), Béziers and Montpellier (Hérault), Nîmes (Gard) and Orange (Vaucluse) before joining the A7 autoroute (Marseille to Lyon). The route is 2x3 as far south as exit 41 (Perpignan-Nord); widening between exit 41 and the Spanish frontier is currently (2012) in progress.
Around Montpellier the road splits up in the A9 and A709. The A709 is not a toll-road. The exits 28-32 (inclusive) can only be reached from the A709. If one stays accidentally on the A9, it can be up to 35km until the next exit.
Length: 280 km (174 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:
— East end: 21 Orange-Centre E 15 / E 714 / A 7 / D 17
— 22 Roquemaure N 580 / D 976 / D 6580
— 23 Remoulin N 100 / D 19 / D 192 / D 351 / D 6100
— 24 Nîmes-Est D 6086
— 25 Nîmes-Ouest E 80 / A 54 / N 106 / N 113
— 26 Gallargues N 113 / D 378 / D 742 / D 6313
— 27 Lunel D 34 / D 110E1
— 28 Vendargues N 113 / D 65 / D 112
— 29 D 24 / D 58 / D 66
— 30 Montpellier-Sud D 986
— 31 Montpellier-Ouest D 65 / D 116 / D 132 / D 132E1
— 32 D 116E1
— 33 Sète D 600
— 34 Agde D 13 / D 612A
— 35 E 11 / A 75
— 36 D 64
— 37 Narbonne-Est D 168
— 38 Narbonne-Sud D 6009
— E 80 / A 61
— 39 D 3 / D 6139
— 40 Leucate D 627 / D 6009
— 41 Perpignan-Nord D 5 / D 12 / D 83 / D 900
— 42 D 612A / D 900
— 43 Le Boulou D 115 / D 618A / D 900
— West end: E-15 / AP-7 (Autopista AP-7) at Spanish border at Le Perthus
Tolls
The A9 autoroute was operated by the Autoroutes du Sud de la France (ASF), taken over in 2006 by Vinci Autoroutes. The cost of travelling the whole road through the Languedoc-Roussillon region in a car is 23.70 euros (from 1 February 2012).
Source
• www.wikipedia.org
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