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Autoroute 440 (or A-440, also known as Autoroute Jean-Noël-Lavoie and previously as Autoroute Laval) is a provincial highway that runs across the city of Laval, Quebec from Autoroute 13 to Autoroute 25. It is currently 18.2 km (11.3 mi) long and proceeds across Île Jésus on an east–west axis. It links every highway or expressway that connects Montreal to the North Shore.
 Autoroute 440 | ||||
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| Autoroute Jean-Noël-Lavoie | ||||
 A-440 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by Transports Québec | ||||
| Length | 18.2 km[1][2] (11.3 mi) | |||
| Existed | 1974[2]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |   A-13 / R-148 in Laval | |||
   A-15 (TCH) / A-19 in Laval | ||||
| East end |  A-25 in Laval | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | Canada | |||
| Province | Quebec | |||
| Major cities | Laval | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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Originally, it was supposed to have continued west in the Avenue des Bois corridor and crossed Rivière des Prairies on Bigras and Bizard Islands. On the latter island, the right-of-way is actually a public park. On the Island of Montreal, the A-440 right-of-way is just west of Boulevard Château-Pierrefonds. The autoroute would have ended at the Chemin Sainte-Marie interchange (Exit 49), on Autoroute 40.
History
editA-440 was built over the following timeline:
| From | Exit | To | Exit | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Route 117 | 19 | A-15/TCH | 22 | 1974 |
| A-13 | 17 | Route 117 | 19 | 1975 |
| A-15/TCH | 22 | Route 335 | 25 | 1975 |
| Route 335 | 25 | A-19 | 27 | 1976 |
| A-19 | 27 | A-25 South (now Route 125 South) |
34 | 1979 |
| Route 125 South, (former A-25 South) |
34 | New A-25 South (existing autoroute renumbered) |
16 (A-25) | 2011 |
Note: Only service roads were originally built from A-13 to Boulevard Industriel (Exit 24), but they were signed as Autoroute 440 until the autoroute was completed in 1994.
Exit list
editThe entire route is in Laval. The exit numbers do not correspond with the km marker because the highway is never fully completed.
| km | mi | Exit | Destinations | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.00 | 0.00 | – | R-148 west (Avenue des Bois) / Montée Champagne | At-grade intersection | ||
| 1.00 | 0.62 | 17 |  A-13 (Autoroute Chomedey) – Montreal, Saint-Eustache, Aéroport P.-E.-Trudeau, Aéroport Mirabel | Split into exits 17S (south) and 17N (north) west bound; exit 15 on A-13; no exit number eastbound | ||
| 4.30 | 2.67 | 19 |  R-117 (Boulevard Curé-Labelle) / Boulevard Chomedey | |||
| 6.20 | 3.85 | 22 | A-15 (TCH) (Autoroute des Laurentides) – Saint-Jérôme, Montréal, Aéroport Mirabel | Exit 15 on A-15 | ||
| 7.70 | 4.78 | 24 | Boulevard Industriel | |||
| 9.90 | 6.15 | 25 |  R-335 south (Boulevard des Laurentides) / Boulevard René-Laennec | R-335 joins service roads | ||
| 11.50 | 7.15 | 27 | A-19 (Autoroute Papineau) / R-335 north (Boulevard des Filion) – Montréal | R-335 leaves service roads; exit 8 on A-19 / Route 335 | ||
| 14.20 | 8.82 | 30 |  R-125 south (Boulevard Pie-IX) / Pont Pie-IX – Montréal | Western terminus of concurrency with R-125 | ||
| 15.60 | 9.69 | 31 | Montée Saint-François | Eastbound exit is via exit 30 | ||
| 18.20 | 11.31 | 34 | R-125 north (Montée Masson) / Rang du Bas-Saint-François / Avenue Marcel Villeneuve | Exit formerly served A-25 | ||
| 18.70 | 11.62 | 35 | A-25 south – Montréal | To Pont Olivier Charbonneau | ||
| 19.80 | 12.30 | – | A-25 north – Terrebonne | Exit 17 on A-25 | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
edit- ^ Ministère des transports, "Distances routières", page (?), Les Publications du Québec, 2005
- ^ a b "Répertoire des autoroutes du Québec" (in French). Transports Québec. Archived from the original on 2010-01-11. Retrieved 2008-02-23.