Quebec Autoroute 440 (Laval)

Autoroute 440 (or A-440, also known as Autoroute Jean-Noël-Lavoie and previously as Autoroute Laval) is a provincial highway that runs across the city of Laval, Quebec from Autoroute 13 to Autoroute 25. It is currently 18.2 km (11.3 mi) long and proceeds across Île Jésus on an east–west axis. It links every highway or expressway that connects Montreal to the North Shore.

Autoroute 440
Autoroute Jean-Noël-Lavoie
A-440 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by Transports Québec
Length	18.2 km[1][2] (11.3 mi)
Existed	1974[2]–present
Major junctions
West end	A-13 in Laval
	A-15 (TCH) / A-19 in Laval
East end	A-25 in Laval
Location
Major cities	Laval
Highway system
Quebec provincial highways Autoroutes List Former ← A-410 → A-440

For Autoroute 440 in Quebec City, see Quebec Autoroute 440 (Quebec City).

Originally, it would have continued west in the Avenue des Bois corridor and crossed Rivière des Prairies on Bigras and Bizard Islands. On the latter island, the right-of-way is actually a public park. On the Island of Montreal, the A-440 right-of-way is just west of Boulevard Chateau-Pierrefonds. The autoroute would have ended at the Chemin Sainte-Marie interchange (Exit 49) on Autoroute 40.

• Western terminus: Av. Des Bois (Ste-Dorothée neighbourhood) (km 16)
• Eastern terminus: Autoroute 25 (St-Vincent-De-Paul neighbourhood) (km 34)
• Lowest Annual Average Daily Traffic: 13 500 vpd (between R-117 and Avenue des Bois) (2000)
• Highest Annual Average Daily Traffic: 131 000 vpd (between Des Laurentides blvd. and Industriel blvd.) (2000)

History

A-440 was built over the following timeline:

From	Exit	To	Exit	Date
Route 117	19	A-15/TCH	22	1974
A-13	17	Route 117	19	1975
A-15/TCH	22	Route 335	25	1975
Route 335	25	A-19	27	1976
A-19	27	A-25 South (now Route 125 South)	34	1979
Route 125 South, (former A-25 South)	34	New A-25 South (existing autoroute renumbered)	16 (A-25)	2011

Note: Only service roads were originally built from A-13 to Boulevard Industriel (Exit 24), but they were signed as Autoroute 440 until the autoroute was completed in 1994.

Exit list

The entire route is in Laval.

km	mi	Exit	Destinations	Notes
0.00	0.00	–	Route 148 west (Avenue des Bois) / Montée Champagne	At-grade intersection
1.00	0.62	17	A-13 (Autoroute Chomedey) – Montreal, Saint-Eustache, Aéroport P.-E.-Trudeau, Aéroport Mirabel	Split into exits 17S (south) and 17N (north) west bound; exit 15 on A-13; no exit number eastbound
4.30	2.67	19	Route 117 (Boulevard Curé-Labelle) / Boulevard Chomedey
6.20	3.85	22	A-15 (TCH) (Autoroute des Laurentides) – Saint-Jérôme, Montréal, Aéroport Mirabel	Exit 15 on A-15
7.70	4.78	24	Boulevard Industriel
9.90	6.15	25	Route 335 south (Boulevard des Laurentides) / Boulevard René-Laennec	Route 335 joins service roads
11.50	7.15	27	A-19 (Autoroute Papineau) / Route 335 north (Boulevard des Filion) – Montréal	Route 335 leaves service roads; exit 8 on A-19 / Route 335
14.20	8.82	30	Route 125 south (Boulevard Pie-IX) to Pont Pie-IX – Montréal	Western terminus of concurrency with Route 125
15.60	9.69	31	Montée Saint-François	Eastbound exit is via exit 30
18.20	11.31	34	Route 125 north (Montée Masson) / Rang du Bas-Saint-François / Avenue Marcel Villeneuve	Exit formerly served Autoroute 25
18.70	11.62	35	A-25 south – Montréal	To Pont Olivier Charbonneau
19.80	12.30	–	A-25 north – Terrebonne	Exit 17 on A-25
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access       Tolled

References

1. Ministère des transports, "Distances routières", page (?), Les Publications du Québec, 2005
2. "Répertoire des autoroutes du Québec" (in French). Transports Québec. Archived from the original on 2010-01-11. Retrieved 2008-02-23.

External links

• Transport Quebec website
• Transport Quebec Map (in French)
• A-440 at Exitlists.com
• A-440 at Quebec Autoroutes
• Steve Anderson's MontrealRoads.com: Laval Autoroute (A-440)