Quebec Autoroute 640
Autoroute 640 (or A-640) is a provincial superhighway that runs across the North Shore Region (paralleling the Rivière des Mille-Îles) from Route 344 in the Oka area to Route 138, where it ends as a four-lane expressway in Charlemagne. The road was designed to be northern bypass of the city of Montréal and was originally intended to cross the Lake of Two Mountains to connect to Autoroute 40 near Vaudreuil. It is currently 54.8 km (34.1 mi) long.
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 Map of Greater Montreal with the A-640 in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by Transports Québec | ||||
| Length | 53.2 km[1][2] (33.1 mi) | |||
| Existed | 1961[3]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |  Route 344 in Oka | |||
 A-13 in Boisbriand  A-15 (TCH) in Sainte-Thérèse A-40 in Charlemagne | ||||
| East end | Route 344 in Charlemagne | |||
| Location | ||||
| Major cities | Deux-Montagnes, Saint-Eustache, Boisbriand, Sainte-Thérèse, Rosemère, Lorraine, Mascouche, Terrebonne | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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A-640 begins at Chemin d'Oka (Route 344) at a traffic circle near Oka National Park, and terminates at a signalized at-grade intersection with Rue Émile-Despins (Route 344) in Charlemagne.
History
A-640 was built over the following timeline:
Exit list
The entire route is located in Laurentides.
| Location | km | mi | Exit | Destinations | Notes | |
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| Oka | 0.00 | 0.00 | – | Route 344 – Oka, Pointe-Calumet, Parc national d'Oka | Traffic circle | |
| Deux Montagnes | 2 | Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, Pointe-Calumet | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |||
| 8 | Boulevard des Promenades – Deux-Montagnes, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac | |||||
| Saint-Eustache | 11 |  Route 148 (Boulevard Arthur-Sauvé) – Lachute, Saint-Eustache | ||||
| 14 | 25e Avenue | |||||
| Boisbriand | 16 |  A-13 south (Autoroute Chomedey) – Laval, Montréal, Aéroport P.-E.-Trudeau | Northern terminus of A-13; exit 22 on A-13 | |||
| 19 | Boisbriand | Westbound exit is via exit 20 | ||||
| Sainte-Thérèse | 20 |  A-15 (TCH) (Autoroute des Laurentides) – Blainville, Saint-Jérôme, Montréal, Aéroport Mirabel | Exit 20 on A-15 | |||
| Rosemère | 22 |  Route 117 – Sainte-Thérèse, Blainville, Rosemère | ||||
| Blainville | 24 | Montée Lesage / Chemin du-Bas-de-Sainte-Thérèse | ||||
| Lorraine | 26 | Lorraine | Access via Boulevard de Gaulle | |||
| Bois-des-Filion | 28 |  Route 335 – Bois-des-Filion, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines | ||||
| Terrebonne | 32 | Avenue Urbanova | Eastbound exit and entrance | |||
| 35 | Boulevard des Entreprises / Boulevard des Seigneurs | |||||
| Mascouche | 38 |  Route 337 (Chemin Gascon) / Chemin des Anglais – Terrebonne, Mascouche | ||||
| Terrebonne | 42 |   A-25 / Route 125 (Montée Masson) – Mascouche, Rawdon, Montréal | Signed as exits 42S (south) and 42N (north); exit 25 on A-25 | |||
| 44 | Chemin Charles-Aubert / Rue Louis-Hébert | |||||
| 45 | Montée Dumais | |||||
| Charlemagne | 52 | A-40 (Autoroute Félix-Leclerc) – Montréal, Québec, Aéroport P.-E.-Trudeau | Signed as exits 52E (east) and 52O (west) | |||
| – | Route 344 – Terrebonne, Repentigny | At-grade intersection | ||||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | ||||||
References
- Ministère des transports, "Distances routières", page (?), Les Publications du Québec, 2005
- "Répertoire des autoroutes du Québec" (in French). Transports Québec. Archived from the original on 2010-01-11. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- "Répertoire des autoroutes du Québec" (in French). Transports Québec. Archived from the original on 2010-01-11. Retrieved 2012-01-15.
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