Québec Autoroute 610
Autoroute 610 | ||||
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| Autoroute Louis-Bilodeau | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by Transports Québec | ||||
| Length | 10.3 km[1][2] (6.4 mi) | |||
| Existed | 1988[2]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |   A-10 / A-55 in Sherbrooke | |||
| East end |  R-112 in Sherbrooke | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | Canada | |||
| Province | Québec | |||
| Major cities | Sherbrooke | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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Autoroute 610 (A-610), also known as Autoroute Louis Bilodeau, is a short spur autoroute serving the eastern and northern suburbs of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. It bypasses Sherbrooke's city centre to the north and connects the A-55 and A-10 to Route 112, a primary regional link to East Angus, Thetford Mines, and Lac-Mégantic.
History
The first section of A-610 was opened to traffic in 1988 as an extension of A-10. The eastern part (east of Exit 7, formerly Exit 150), opened in 1992, is a two-lane freeway. Original plans for A-10 called for it to continue east to Thetford Mines, but this section was never built. On 29 September 2006, Transports Québec announced plans to redesignate the section of A-10 east of A-55 as Autoroute 610. The MTQ's rationale was that the new route number is more consistent with the Quebec road numbering plan and would be less confusing to motorists travelling through and beyond the region.[3] As a result, Autoroute 10 (multiplexed with A-55 east of km 121) reaches its terminus at the interchange with A-610.
In January 2008, A-610 was renamed in honour of Louis Bilodeau, a longtime broadcaster on CHLT-TV.
A proposal to build the East-West Highway across central and northern Maine calls for A-610 (with its original numbering as A-10 restored) to be extended to the U.S. border at Coburn Gore where it would meet the new highway. Doing so would create a new and more direct limited-access highway link between Maine, the Maritimes, and Montreal.
Exit list
The entire route is in Sherbrooke.
| mi | km | Exit | Destinations | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.00 | 0.00 | – | A-10 west / A-55 – Magog, Montréal, Drummondville, Québec | Exit 143 on A-10 / A-55; eastern terminus of A-10 | ||
| 3.30 | 5.31 | 3 | Boulevard Saint-François – Sherbrooke Centre-Ville | |||
| 7.00 | 11.27 | 7 |  R-216 – Fleurimont, Stoke | |||
| 11.30 | 18.19 | – | R-112 (Rue King) – East Angus, Thetford Mines, Lac-Mégantic | Traffic circle with slip ramps | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | ||||||
References
- ^ Ministère des transports: "Distances routière", page 12, Les Publications du Québec, 2005 (Distance between Route 112 and exit 143)
- ^ a b "Répertoire des autoroutes du Québec" (in French). Transports Québec. Archived from the original on January 11, 2010.
- ^ News Archived March 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
External links
Media related to Québec Autoroute 610 at Wikimedia Commons- Transport Quebec
- Transports Quebec Map (in French)
- A-610 at Quebec Autoroutes
- News story on renaming of A-610 (Le Matin, French)
