The A6, also known as the Autoroute du Soleil, Motorway of the Sun,, is an Autoroute in France, linking Paris to Lyon. The motorway starts at Paris's Porte d'Orléans and Porte d'Italie with two branches, numbered A6a and A6b respectively, that join south of Paris.
A6a and A6b at Paris
The autoroute system in France consists largely of toll roads. It is a network of 11,882 km (7,383 mi) of motorways as of 2014. On road signs, autoroute destinations are shown in blue, while destinations reached through a combination of autoroutes are shown with an added autoroute logo. Toll autoroutes are signalled with the word péage.
The French autoroute A1
A French motorway.
Dynamic information panel used on the French Autoroute.
Toll barrier in Hordain (north of France), on autoroute A2