A7 autoroute

Infobox road
marker_
RedRoute2|A|7
highway_name=Autoroute du Soleil
maint=ASF


length_km=302.5
established=1958
direction_a=North
direction_b=South
starting_terminus=Lyon (RedRoute|A|6)
ending_terminus=Marseille (Porte d'Aix)
junction= RedRoute|A|46 near Lyon RedRoute|A|46 near Chasse-sur-Rhône
RedRoute|A|9 near Orange
RedRoute|A|54 near Salon-de-Provence
RedRoute|A|8 in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
RedRoute|A|55 in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
RedRoute|A|51 in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
RedRoute|A|557 in Marseille
system=EuroRoute|E|15 EuroRoute|E|80 EuroRoute|E|714

The A7 Autoroute, also known as l'autoroute du Soleil (English: the Motorway of the Sun) is a French motorway. It continues the A6 and links Lyon to Marseille. The autoroute du Soleil is 302.5 km (188 miles) long and forms part of European routes E15, E80, and E714.

Sorties (Exits)

* Junction
* 01 1.8 km: Lyon-"centre"
* 02 2.3 km: Lyon-"centre"
* 03 4 km: Oullins
* 04 5.5 km: Pierre-Bénite
* 05 5.5 km: St.-Fons (vers le Boulevard Périphérique, via le Boulevard Pierre-Sémard)
*
* Aire de Solaize
* 07 13.5 km: Solaize
* 07a 14 km: Sérézin-du-Rhône
* Aire de Sérézin-du-Rhône (southbound)
* Junction
* 08 21.5 km: chasse-sur-Rhône (de Marseille)
* par RN (de Lyon)
* 10 32 km: Vienne, L'Isle d'Abeau (de Marseille)
* Péage de Vienne
* Aires de repos : Auberives (northbound) Grande Borne (Southbound)
* Aire de SRoussilon (northbound Petrol only)
* / N82
* Aire de St Rambert d'Albon
* Aires de repos : Blacheronde (northbound) Combe Tourmente (southbound)
* Aires de repos : Bornaron/La Galaure
* Aires de repos : Bouterne (southbound)
*
* Aire de Pont de l'Isere/Latitude 45'
* 14: Valence nord
* / N532
* Aire de Portes les Valence
* Aires de repos : Bellevue/Livron
*
* Aire de Bras de Zil (AR)/Saulce
*
* Aire de Montélimar
* Aires de repos : Coucourde/Le logis neuf
* Aires de repos : Savasse/Roubion
*
* Aires de repos : Donzere (southbound) Pierrelate (northbound)
* Aires de repos : Tricastin (southbound)
*
* Aire de Mornas les Adrets (southbound) Mornas village (northbound)
* Junction
*
* Aires de repos : Orange le Gres/Orange le Coudoulet
* Aires de repos : Le Fournalet (northbound)
*
* Aire de Sorgues (southbound)
* Aire de Repos: Le Fournalet (northbound)
*
* Aire de Morieres (northbound)
*
* Aires de repos : Noves (southbound) Cabannes (northbound)
* Aires de repos : Cavaillon
* *
* Aires de repos : Sénas
* 26 221 km: Sénas
* Aires de repos : Lamanon (southbound)
* 27 229 km: Rognac, Avignon et Lyon par RN
* Junction
* Péage de Lançon Provence
* Aires de repos :
* Junction
* 29 254 km: Rognac Berre
* Aire de Vitrolles
* 30 : Vitrolles
* 29: Aéroport Marignane
* 30: Les Pennes-Mirabeau (de Marseille)
* Junction
* 31: Les Pennes-Mirabeau (de Lyon)
* Junction
* 32: St Antoine (N8)
* 33: Les Ayguelades
* 34: Les Arnavaux
* par RN
* liaison vers A55, Bd.-Plombière (depuis Lyon)
* 37: Saint Charles
* Terminus at Porte d'Aix

Péages (Tolls)

*Péage de Vienne
*Péage de Lançon de Provence

Traffic

This autoroute is fairly heavy throughout the year. Much of the transit of heavy goods between northern France and the Benelux countries and Germany and the Mediterranean passes through the Rhône valley, and thus along the A7. Traffic is also generated by local transit around the larger cities of the region (Lyon, Vienne, Valence, Orange, Avignon). During holiday periods, traffic is particularly congested, southbound at the beginning of holidays, northbound at the end. the last week-end of July and the first week-end of August are particularly crowded in both directions; jams can occasionally stretch for hundreds of kilometers.