A6 autoroute

A6 autoroute
Route information
Part of E 5 / E 15 / E 21 / E 50 / E 60
Maintained by DIR Centre-Est between Lyon and Limonest; APRR between Limonest and Cély; DIR île-De-France between Cély and Paris
Length:	445.6 km (276.9 mi)
Existed:	1960 – present
Major junctions
West end:	Paris (Porte d' Italie & Porte de Gentilly)
Highway system
Autoroutes of France

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.

File:Autoroute A6ab.jpg

A6a and A6b at Paris

The motorway is favoured by holidaymakers as it is the main link to the South of France and the French Riviera. At 455 km 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".

A 200-kilometre (120-mile) stretch of the A6 motorway around Mâcon, Chalon-sur-Saône and Montceau-les-Mines, France, is known for the A6 disappearances, a number of mysterious disappearances or other crimes involving women and girls, occurring in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

Exit list

Exits are numbered from north to south.

#	Destinations	Notes
	Boulevard Périphérique Intérieur - Porte d'Arcueil	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	RN20 - Porte d'Orléans	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	Boulevard Périphérique Extérieur	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	slow vehicles; all directions (A6b south)	southbound exit and northbound entrance
	A6b north - Metz; Nancy; Lille; Villejuif; Arcueil; Périphérique east; Porte d'Italie	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	A106 south - Aéroport Orly	southbound exit and northbound entrance
3	Rungis	southbound exit and northbound entrance
	A10 south - Palaiseau; Étampes; Bordeaux; Nantes; Massy; Longjumeau	southbound exit and northbound entrance
	A6b north - Versailles; Antony; Lille; Metz; Nancy; Rungis; Aéroport Orly; Créteil	northbound exit and southbound entrance; A6a becomes A6 southbound and begins northbound
	to A10 - Palaiseau; Massy; Wissous (A126)	northbound exit and southbound entrance
5	Chilly-Mazarin; Morangis; Longjumeau
6	Savigny-sur-Orge; Épinay-sur-Orge; Morsang-sur-Orge; Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois
7	Viry-Châtillon; Fleury-Mérogis (N445)	southbound exit and northbound entrance
7.1	Grigny; Ris-Orangis; Viry-Châtillon (N440; N441)
	N104 west to A13; to A10 - Rouen; Bordeaux; Nantes; Versailles; Évry-Centre; Courcouronnes; Bondoufle (N440; N441; N449)
	N104 east to A5; to A1 - Troyes; Corbeil-Essonnes; Sénart; Melun; Marne-la-Vallée; Lisses-Centre; Évry; Courcouronnes (N446)
9	Villabé; Évry-Lisses Z.I.; Mennecy
10	Corbeil-Essonnes-Centre; Mennecy (N191)	northbound exit and southbound entrance
11	Le Coudray-Montceaux; Mennecy; Auvernaux	southbound exit and northbound entrance
12	Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry (N337)	southbound exit and northbound entrance
	to N7 - Fontainebleau (N37)	southbound exit and northbound entrance
13	Étampes; Melun; Milly-la-Forêt
14	Malesherbes (N152)
15	Fontainebleau (N7 north)	northbound exit and southbound entrance
16	Montereau-Fault-Yonne; Nemours
	A77 south - Nevers; Montargis	southbound exit and northbound entrance
17	E60 west - Montargis; Orléans; Courtenay; Villeneuve-sur-Yonne (N60)
	A19 to A5 - Paris; Sens; Troyes
18	Joigny; Toucy; Villeneuve-sur-Yonne; Charny; Châteaurenard
19	Auxerre; Joigny; Migennes (N6)
20	Tonnerre; Auxerre (N65)
21	Nitry; Montbard; Vézelay; Tonnerre
22	Avallon; Saulieu (N146)
23	Bierre-lès-Semur; Semur-en-Auxois; Saulieu; Montbard
	A38 - Dijon; Autun; Saulieu; Pouilly-en-Auxois
24	Beaune-Centre; Savigny-lès-Beaune; Beaune-Saint-Nicolas (N74)
	A31 to A36; to A5 - Lille; Metz; Nancy; Besançon; Dijon (E60 east)
24.1	Beaune-Centre; Chagny; Beaune-Hospices (N470)
25	Chalon-Nord; Chalon-sur-Saône; Autun; Châtenoy-le-Royal; Chagny
26	Chalon-Sud; Chalon-sur-Saône; Le Creusot; Montceau-les-Mines; Lons-le-Saunier (N80)
27	Tournus (N6)
28	Mâcon-Nord; Mâcon; Bourg-en-Bresse; Pont-de-Vaux (N72)
	A40 - Milan; Geneva; Bourg-en-Bresse	southbound exit and northbound entrance
29	Mâcon-Sud; Mâcon; Moulins; Charnay-lès-Mâcon; Thoissey; Cluny; Charolles (N79)
30	Belleville; Thoissey; Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne
31	Villefranche-sur-Saône; Jassans-Riottier
32	Anse; Quincieux	southbound exit and northbound entrance (no toll-free access)
33	Limonest; Dardilly; Porte de Lyon	beginning of a toll-free, publicly managed section (south)
34	Techlid; Champagne-Au-Mont-D'or
35	Écully; Dardilly; Champagne-Au-Mont-D'or; La Duchère
36	Tassin-La-Demi-Lune; RN7 towards A89
37	Tassin-La-Demi-Lune	northbound exit, southbound and northbound entrances
39a	Vieux Lyon
39b	Lyon-Centre, Perrache	towards south only, no northbound exit
39c	Lyon-Part-Dieu

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A6b

#	Destinations	Notes
	Périphérique outer - Metz; Nancy; Lille	northbound exit and southbound entrance
1	Porte d'Italie	northbound exit and southbound entrance
2	D61 - Villejuif; Arcueil; Le Kremlin-Bicêtre	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	A6a north - Rouen; Paris-Centre; Périphérique inner; Porte d'Orléans	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	A106 south - Aéroport Orly	southbound exit and northbound entrance
3	Rungis	southbound exit and northbound entrance
	A86 west; N186 west - Antony; l'Haÿ-les-Roses; Versailles; Fresnes; Chevilly-Larue	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	A86 east; N186 east - Lille; Metz; Nancy; Créteil; Aéroport Orly; other sectors of Rungis	no southbound exit
	A10 south - Palaiseau; Étampes; Bordeaux; Nantes; Massy; Longjumeau	southbound exit and northbound entrance

External links

• A6 autoroute in Saratlas
• A6 APRR, the operator of the A6