A71 autoroute
The A71 autoroute is a motorway in central France. It is also called l'Arverne. It starts at Orléans and ends at Clermont-Ferrand.
Orléans to Bourges[]
The autoroute is 2x2 lanes and is operated by the Société Cofiroute (Orléans-Bourges). The section between Orléans to Salbris was opened on 24 October 1986. In 1989 it was completed to Bourges.
Junctions[]
Exchange A10-A71 Junction with the A10
1 (Orléans-Centre) Towns served: Orléans- 2 (Olivet) Towns served: Olivet
Rest Area: Le Bois de Bailly/Le Bois du Télégraphe- Rest Area:Chaumont-sur-Tharonne/La Ferté-Saint-Aubin
- 3 (Lamotte-Beuvron) Towns served: Lamotte-Beuvron
- Rest Area: L'Étang du Marais/La Briganderie
- Rest Area: Les Marembets/La Saulot
- 4 (Salbris) Towns served: Salbris
Service Area: Salbris
- Exchange A71-A85 Junction with A85
- Exchange A20-A71 Junction with A20
- 6 (Vierzon-Est) Towns served: Vierzon
- Rest area: Les Croquettes/La Chaussée de César
- Service Area: Bourges
- 7 (Bourges) Towns served: Bourges
Bourges to Clermont-Ferrand[]
This section of the autoroute is operated by SAPRR. It is 2x2 lanes and a toll road. The road has the double numbering A71/A89 between Combronde and Gerzat.
- 1987 : The section between Montmarault and (71 km) is opened.
- 1988 : The section between Forêt-de-Tronçais and Montmarault (38 km) is opened.
- 1989 : The opening of the section between Bourges and the Forêt-de-Tronçais (70 km)
Junctions[]
- Rest Area: Le Gîte des Loups/Le Bois des Dames
- Service Area: Centre de la France
- 8 (Saint-Amand) Towns served: Saint-Amand-Montrond
- Rest Area: Le Grand Meaulnes/Vallon-en-Sully
- 9 (Vallon-en-Sully) Towns served: Vallon-en-Sully and Hérisson
- Exchange A714-A71 Junction with the A714 spur to Guéret and Montluçon
- Service Area: L'Allier
- 11 (Montmarault) Towns served: Montmarault
- Rest Area: La Bouble/Chantelle-en-Bourbonnais
- Exchange A71-A719 Junction with A719 spur to Vichy, Gannat and Ébreuil
- Service Area: Volcans
- 12.1 (Combronde) Towns served: Combronde
- Exchange A89-A71 Junction with the A89
- Rest Area: Montpertuis/Pessat-Villeneuve
- 13 (Riom) Towns served: Riom
- 14 (Gerzat) Towns served: Gerzat
- 15 (Clermont-Ferrand) Towns served: Clermont-Ferrand
- Exchange A710-A71 Junction with the A710 spur to
- 16 (Brezet) Towns served: Clermont-Ferrand
- Exchange A75-A71 Junction with A75 to Saint-Étienne and Lyon.
The Spur Autoroutes[]
A719[]
Opened in 1997, first section of this motorway bypasses Gannat by north (9 km). The highway was extended to the gates of Vichy, precisely on a roundabout at Espinasse-Vozelle; this 14 km section, inaugurated 9 January, was opened on 12 January 2015.[1]
- Exchange A71-A719
- 13, km 1 Towns served: Ébreuil and Gannat
- 14, km 6 Towns served: Gannat and Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule 24 km
- 15, km 9 Towns served: Gannat and Vichy
There are proposals to extend the autoroute beyond Vichy to form part of the A77 to (Moulins-Roanne).
A710[]
Former autoroute opened in 1998 (7 km long). Junctions are:
- Exchange A71-A710 Junction with the A710
- Exchange A89-A710 Junction with the A89 (7 km)
A711[]
- Exchange A75-A711 Junction with the A75
- 1.3 km 4 Towns served: Lempdes
- 1.4 km 5 Towns served: Pont-du-Château
- Exchange A89-A711 Junction with the A89 (11 km)
A712[]
This motorway, 1 km long and with reduced features, connects the exit 1.4 of A711 at the roundabout of Champ-Lamet between Lempdes and Pont-du-Château, at the crossroads with three other departmental roads.
A711 towards Clermont-Ferrand (August 2009)
A712 autoroute
A714[]
Motorway connecting the A71 with the traffic ring of Montluçon.
Future[]
There are proposals to create a major motorway route through Montluçon as part of a transport route from Central Europe to the Atlantic coast.
References[]
- ^ "A719 Gannat - Vichy". APRR (in French). Retrieved 26 January 2015.
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