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Autoroute 5 (A-5, also known as the Autoroute de la Gatineau) is a short controlled-access Autoroute in the Outaouais region of western Quebec. It connects the central urban area of Gatineau (formerly Hull ) with the recreational areas of Gatineau Park and the exurban rural areas of Chelsea and La Pêche .
The seventeen administrative regions of Quebec. The province of Quebec, Canada, ... Gatineau: 08 Abitibi-Témiscamingue: 147,082 57,325.74 km 2 (22,133.59 sq mi)
Route 315 through Chénéville. Route 315 is a road in the Canadian province of Quebec that connects the Gatineau sector of Masson-Angers to Namur. Initially, the road started in Buckingham on Rue Joseph at the city's Main Street (Avenue de Buckingham) just a few kilometres further north, but when A-50 was extended further east as a Buckingham by-pass at its current end at Doherty Road, the ...
Eight years later, Quebec Premier Jean-Jacques Bertrand announced plans for construction. It was originally envisioned that the A-50 would extend over 400 km from L'Isle-aux-Allumettes at the Ontario border through Saint-Jérôme and Joliette along the Route 148 and 158 corridors to Berthierville and a junction with the A-40 .
Near Val-des-Monts township it overlaps Route 307 for 7 km (4 mi) before veering south towards Gatineau and its terminus with Route 148. In 2011, Google Maps mislabeled Quebec Route 366 as running concurrent with the entire length of U.S. Route 30 from Astoria, Oregon to Atlantic City, New Jersey. [2]
The route serves as a direct connection between the Pontiac region and the Upper Gatineau region. The 82-kilometer route runs from the end of Ontario Highway 653 near Portage-du-Fort and joins Route 148 for a 9 km (5.6 mi) stretch up to Campbell's Bay where it continues eastward and ends in Kazabazua at the junction of Route 105 .
The negative gap between the region's participation rate and that of Quebec narrowed from 1.0 to 0.4 percentage points. The employment rate increased to 60.2% in the region. The region now has an employment rate comparable to that of Quebec (60.1%). Since 1999, the Outaouais has generally had a lower unemployment rate than Quebec as a whole.
In Gatineau, it is known as Rue Saint-Louis, in Cantley it is known as Montée de la Source and in Val-des Monts it is named Route Principale. On June 23, 2010, part of the highway was closed between Val-des-Bois and Bowman, due to a partial bridge collapse caused by a 5.0 magnitude earthquake .