The first French motorway

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The first French motorway

The A13 wass the first French motorway. It all started in 1927 with the launch of studies aimed at creating the “highway to the west”. The idea was to link the capital to Normandy, at a time when commercial aviation was in its infancy and when Cherbourg (Manche) and Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) constituted a stopover on the route of transatlantic liners. The first section was completed in 1941. The free motorway network was extended until it became chargeable on July 9, 1960.

On July 1, 1961, the first toll motorway was inaugurated in France, it is the Estérel-Côte d'Azur motorway.


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On July 1, 1961, the first toll motorway was inaugurated in France, it is the Estérel-Côte d'Azur motorway.

© Péage

I take this autoroute every other day and didnt know it.

It still looks very similar 60 years later, the dogs only added an automatic radar on the right side before the bridge (hopefully only works with French plates)