The A48 autoroute is a motorway in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 connecting the A43

A43 autoroute

The A43 autoroute is a motorway in eastern France. Travelling through the western Alps it is also known as the Autoroute alpine or Autoroute de la Maurienne. It connects Lyon with Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and Modane to Italy and Turin. It is operated by AREA and SFTRF...

 with Grenoble

Grenoble

Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...

. An extension north to Ambérieu

Ambérieu-en-Bugey

Ambérieu-en-Bugey is a commune in the department of Ain in eastern France.It is the largest town in the arrondissement of Belley and the seat of the Ambérieu-en-Bugey canton, as well as the capital of the historic region of Bugey.-Geography:...

 is proposed in the medium term. It is also called Autoroute de le Dauphiné.

Characteristics

• 2x2 lanes
• 2x3 lanes between the A49 and A480 autoroutes (10 km)
• 97 km long
• Service areas

History

• 1968: The first toll free section opened between the Bastille (Grenoble Centre) and Voreppe as part of the preparations for the Winter Olympics held in the city.
• 1975: Opening of the toll section between Voreppe and the A43 managed by AREA.

Junctions

• Exchange A48-A43 Exits [to modify] Exchanger between A43 to Lyon
  Lyon
  Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
  
  /Chambéry
  Chambéry
  Chambéry is a city in the department of Savoie, located in the Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France.It is the capital of the department and has been the historical capital of the Savoy region since the 13th century, when Amadeus V of Savoy made the city his seat of power.-Geography:Chambéry...
  
   and A48
  • Rest Area: Burcin
• 09 (Le Grand-Lemps) Towns served: Rives
  • Rest Area: Réaumont
• 10 (Champfeuillet) Towns served: Voiron
• 11 (Voiron-Moirans) Towns served: Voiron
• Exchange A49-A48 Exchanger between A49
  A49 autoroute
  The A49 autoroute is a motorway in France. It was completed in 1991. It connects Romans with Grenoble.- History :The first section was opened in 1991 between the junction with the A48 towards Voreppe and the junction at Tullins...
  
   to Valence
  Valence, Drôme
  Valence is a commune in southeastern France, the capital of the Drôme department, situated on the left bank of the Rhône, south of Lyon on the railway to Marseilles.Its inhabitants are called Valentinois...
  
   and A48
• 12 (Veurey) Towns served: Voreppe
• Péage de Voreppe
• 13 (Voreppe) Towns served: Voreppe
  • Rest Area: Voreppe/L'Isle Rose
• 14 (Saint-Egreve) Towns served: Saint-Egreve
• 15 (ZI Saint-Egreve-ZI/Saint-Martin-the-Vinoux) Towns served: Grenoble
• Exchange A48-A480 Junction between the A48 and A480
  A51 autoroute
  The A51 autoroute is a projected motorway in south east France. It is the long term project to connect Marseille to Grenoble via Aix-en-Provence, the Durance valley and the Department Hautes-Alpes.-Route:...
  
   to Sisteron
  Sisteron
  Sisteron is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.Sisteron is situated on the banks of the River Durance just after the confluence of the rivers Buëch and Sasse...
  
   and Gap
  Gap, Hautes-Alpes
  Gap is a commune in southeastern France, the capital of the Hautes-Alpes department.-Geography:An Alpine crossroads at the intersection of D994 and Route nationale 85 the Route Napoléon, Gap lies above sea level along the right bank of the Luye River...
  
   via A51
  A51 autoroute
  The A51 autoroute is a projected motorway in south east France. It is the long term project to connect Marseille to Grenoble via Aix-en-Provence, the Durance valley and the Department Hautes-Alpes.-Route:...
  
  .
• 16 (Europôle-Polygon Scientific Grenoble) Towns served: Grenoble

Autoroute ends.

Places of interest

The following list indexes towns and places of interest that can be visited from the motorway:

• River Isere
• Col de Rossatière

Future

There are proposals to extend the autoroute north from Bourgoin-Jallieu to Ambérieu-in-Bugey and connecting to the A42 autoroute

A42 autoroute

The A42 autoroute is a motorway in Lyon. It was completed in 1987. It connects the city of Lyon to Pont-d'Ain with junctions with the A40 and A39 to Geneva, Chamonix and Mulhouse....

.

External links

• A48 autoroute in Saratlas