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The motorway starts in Paris at the Porte d'Auteuil, a former gate of the Paris walls, and ends at Mondeville's Mondeville 2 (Porte de Paris) exchange junction on the Boulevard Périphérique (Caen). The A13 is France 's oldest motorway (opening in 1946) and is intensively used between Paris and Normandy for both commuting and holiday makers.
The road between Évreux and Caen follows a straight course of a former Roman road linking Paris to Normandy. The road crosses the river Risle and the A28 autoroute at La Rivière-Thibouville . The road bypasses the town of Lisieux before dropping into the Plaine de Caen, where it crosses the river Dives .
Autoroutes are often given a name, even if these are not very used: A1 is the autoroute du Nord (Northern motorway).; A4 is the autoroute de l'Est (Eastern motorway).; A6 and A7 are autoroutes du Soleil (Motorways of the Sun), as both lead from northern France to the sunny beach resorts of southern France.
The A14 was built to relieve the congested A13 between Paris and Normandy. The A14, opened in 1996, is operated by the Société des Autoroutes de Paris Normandie. [1] The motorway is 21 km (13 mi) in length and is subject to a toll. The A14 serves no localities between La Défense and Orgeval and is only a relief road of the A13.
At the junction of Graincourt-lès-Havrincourt near Cambrai, the E 19 joins the Autoroute des Anglais E 17. It then meets the E 15 European route in the node of Combles. It now runs on the North Autoroute A1 through the Picardy to Paris. The European roads E 15 and E 19 merge into each other.
The SAPN was created in 1963 and since then, has fulfilled the targets set by the French government: build, maintain and operate a network of motorways. Its network serves two regions; Ile-de-France and Normandy. SAPN's network consists of the A14 (16 km long), the A13 (233 km long) and the A29 (119 km long).
The A 29 is a major toll motorway in Normandy and Picardy, northwestern and northern France.The road is also part of European route E44.From its western interchange with the A28 autoroute until its junction with the A26 autoroute, part of the A29 also forms the northern section of the Grand contournement de Paris.
The LGV Nord begins at Arnouville-lès-Gonesse, 16.6 kilometres (10.3 mi) from the Gare du Nord on the Paris–Lille railway line. At Vémars, the LGV Interconnexion Est joins it via a triangular junction, leading to Charles de Gaulle Airport and Marne-la-Vallée-Chessy; this enables direct trains from London and Amsterdam to Disneyland Paris, as well as the southern destinations (Lyon ...