Autoroute 540 (Vaudreuil-Dorion) was a short spur route that connected
Autoroute 20 to
Autoroute 40, providing a direct freeway link from
Windsor, Ontario (via
Highway 401
King's Highway 401, commonly referred to as Highway 401 and also known by its official name as the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway or colloquially referred to as the four-oh-one,
is a controlled-access 400-series highway in the Canadian provin ...
) to
Quebec City,
Rivière-du-Loup, and points east through A-40, as A-20 currently has several at-grade intersections in
Vaudreuil-Dorion as a
multi-lane divided road. A-540 was the shortest numbered
Autoroute.
Absorption as part of Autoroute 30
In 2006, construction began to extend
Autoroute 30 north of the St. Lawrence River (over a new crossing) to the existing junction with Autoroute 540 and
Autoroute 20, necessitating reconstruction of that interchange. Once that was completed in December 2012, A-540 was annexed and re-designated as an extension of
Autoroute 30, while the old alignment of A-30 south of
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield was renamed
Autoroute 530. This made the expanded A-30 a
ring road
A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop, bypass or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city, or country. The most common purpose of a ring road is to assist i ...
serving the southwestern part of the Montreal metropolitan area.
Exit list
From south to north.
References
External links
Transport QuebecTransports Quebec Map
{{Quebec Autoroutes
40-5 (Vaudreuil-Dorion)
Vaudreuil-Dorion
Former provincial highways in Canada