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By the time the 96 km southern extension connecting the A4 autoroute and A5 autoroute opened in June 1992 it was the final link in the first continuous motorway route from Calais to Marseille and the Cote d'Azur that completely bypassed the Paris area with its associated congestion, reducing driving time from Calais to Lyon by approximately 90 ...
The railway from Paris to Marseille is an 862-kilometre long railway line, that connects Paris to the southern port city of Marseille, France, via Dijon and Lyon. The railway was opened in several stages between 1847 and 1856, when the final section through Lyon was opened. [ 2 ]
The Route nationale 7, or RN 7, is a trunk road [1] in France between Paris and the border with Italy.It was also known as Route des vacances (The Holiday Route), Route bleue (The Blue Route), and — sarcastically, during the annual rush to the Mediterranean beaches — the Route de la mort (Road of Death).
A staircase gives access to the upper level, where the gangway between carriages is located. There are 512 seats per set. On busy routes such as Paris-Marseille they are operated in pairs, providing 1,024 seats in two Duplex sets or 800 in a Duplex set plus a Reseau set. Each set has a wheelchair accessible compartment.
Travel times by road in Metropolitan France from Paris Two high-speed TGV trains at Paris-Gare de l'Est. Transportation in France relies on one of the densest networks in the world with 146 km of road and 6.2 km of rail lines per 100 km 2. It is built as a web with Paris at its center. [1]
08 21.5 km: chasse-sur-Rhône (de Marseille) 09 26 km: Vienne, Valence par N7, Grenoble 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) A7. Aire de SRoussilon (northbound Petrol only) 12 33 km: Chanas Annonay / N82; Aire de St Rambert d'Albon
Autoroutes are often given a name, even if these are not very used: A1 is the autoroute du Nord (Northern motorway).; A4 is the autoroute de l'Est (Eastern motorway).; A6 and A7 are autoroutes du Soleil (Motorways of the Sun), as both lead from northern France to the sunny beach resorts of southern France.
The LGV Méditerranée (French: Ligne à Grande Vitesse; English: Mediterranean high-speed line) is a 250-kilometre-long (160-mile) French high-speed rail line running from north to south between Saint-Marcel-lès-Valence, Drôme and Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, also featuring a connection to Nîmes, Gard to the west.