Autoroute 28 is a French mainland
motorway
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linking
Abbeville
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It is the chef-lieu of one of the arrondissements of Somme. Located on the river Somme, it was the capital of ...
in the
Somme to
Tours
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in Indre-et-Loire. The motorway starts at Abbeville, splitting from the
A16 and, after merging with the
A13 near
Rouen, ends at Tours, merging with the
A10. It is 405 km long. The motorway between
Rouen and Tours was added to the ''Schéma Directeur Routier National'' in 1987.
Between Abbeville and Rouen, the first part, the motorway was built by the
Ministry of Public Works and Transport. This portion of the motorway, 97 km long, is toll-free.
Between Rouen and
Alençon, the second part, the motorway is operated by Alis (partly owned by
Sanef) and is the first
autoroute of France to have had offers by European companies following the withdrawal of the
SAPN in 1998 despite its contract initiated in 1995. The second stretch of road, opened on 27 October 2005, is 125 km long and passes over two large viaducts; the Viaduc de la Risle and the Viaduc du Bec.
The third and final stretch of road, between Alençon and the A10 near Tours, is operated by
Cofiroute
Vinci (corporately styled VINCI) is a French concessions and construction company founded in 1899 as Société Générale d'Enterprises. Its head office is in Nanterre, in the western suburbs of Paris. Vinci is listed on Euronext's Paris stock ...
. A portion of road between
Écommoy and Tours was prevented from being built due to the presence of a protected species of beetle, ''Osmoderma Eremita'', or the Pique Prune. Construction began only in 2004, and the stretch was opened on 14 December.
List of junctions
External links
A28 autoroute in Saratlas
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A27