- A14 autoroute
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The motorway starts at
La Défense inHauts-de-Seine and ends at Orgeval inYvelines . The A14 was built to relieve the congested A13 between Paris andNormandy . The A14, opened in1996 , is operated by theSociété des Autoroutes de Paris Normandie . The motorway is 15.6 km (9.6 miles) in length and is subject to a tollThe A14 serves no localities between La Défense and Orgeval and is used only as a relief road of the A13.A motorway exit near
Saint-Germain-en-Laye was planned but was denied by the French president,François Mitterrand , after demands made by mayors, to prevent excessive car use in theForest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye . Other exits were planned but their construction is blocked by communal councils.A motorway exit is projected west of the Montesson toll bar. The mayor of Montesson has placed a condition on approval of the project that the exit may be constructed if a
dual-carriageway relieving the RD121 is also built. Public consultation is in progress.Many bridges and tunnels were built to carry the motorway. Two long bridges and a tunnel of 2.8 km long were built. The tunnel, built for 4.5 billion FRF, was built to preserve the forest of Saint-Germain.
The toll has a price that varies with the hours of the day. Free access to the motorway is given to drivers practising
carpool ing.List of junctions
External links
*fr icon [http://saratlas.free.fr/index.php?page=autoroute&route=a14&lang=en A14 autoroute] in
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