Autoroute 70, or A-70, is a short
Autoroute located in the
Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of northern
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
. It is the only Autoroute that does not connect to any other Autoroutes, although other Autoroutes have discontiguous segments (such as
A-20 A20, A 20, A.20 or A-20 may refer to:
Vehicles
* A-20 Havoc, a U.S.-designed attack aircraft used in World War II
* A20 heavy tank, a British tank which did not enter production but of which a downsized version became the A22 Churchill tank
* A-20 ...
and
A-30). A-70 was first created in 1983, and has since been extended three times.
A-70 is long at present, however extensions are being proposed in both directions. A-70 is only partially completed; it acts primarily as a bypass route around the urban area of
Saguenay. The route was slow to develop; until 2001 it was an extremely short stub, fewer than long.
A-70 will be extended westward to
Alma
Alma or ALMA may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Alma'' (film), a 2009 Spanish short animated film
* ''Alma'' (Oswald de Andrade novel), 1922
* ''Alma'' (Le Clézio novel), 2017
* ''Alma'' (play), a 1996 drama by Joshua Sobol about Alma ...
and eastward to
La Baie. A new alignment has already been determined for the westernmost section of A-70. The proposed route for the eastern section has also been determined and of it has been built – from the former eastern terminus of the original A-70 to the Saguenay-Bagotville Airport.
The ultimate length of A-70 will be around .
History
The A-70 was designed to provide a limited-access highway link between
Alma
Alma or ALMA may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Alma'' (film), a 2009 Spanish short animated film
* ''Alma'' (Oswald de Andrade novel), 1922
* ''Alma'' (Le Clézio novel), 2017
* ''Alma'' (play), a 1996 drama by Joshua Sobol about Alma ...
and
La Baie. The autoroute has been built in increments since the early 1980s. It took nearly ten years for the first eight kilometers to be built. During the 1990s, highway planners modified the plans. Rather than building the western section of A-70 to parallel
Route 170 between 8e Rang in
Saint-Bruno (km 5) and St-Benedict Road (km 25), instead Route 170 was rebuilt as a four-lane
divided highway
A dual carriageway ( BE) or divided highway ( AE) is a class of highway with carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation (BrE) or median (AmE). Roads with two or more carriageways which are ...
. This interim rebuild was completed by 1999. Three years later, an additional 17 kilometres of new freeway in the central section were opened, connecting this rebuilt section of Route 170 with the original portion of A-70.
Future
To date, approximately of highway remain to be completed of the ultimate freeway link between Alma and La Baie.
Transports Québec
Le ministère des Transports du Québec ( en, Ministry of Transportation of Quebec), known by its short form name Transports Québec, is a Quebec government ministry responsible for transport, infrastructure and law in Quebec, Canada.
Since 2022 ...
has conducted a feasibility study for the western section while continuing to acquire property to provide a right of way.
Exit list
References
External links
Quebec highways
{{Quebec Autoroutes
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Transport in Saguenay, Quebec