Quebec Autoroute 55

Autoroute 55
Autoroute 55
Autoroute Joseph-Armand Bombardier; Autoroute de l'Énergie
Route information
	Maintained by Transports Québec
Length	247 km (153 mi)
Existed	1964–present
Major junctions
South end	I-91 at the Canada–United States border in Stanstead, Quebec
	A-10 in Magog; A-410 in Sherbrooke; A-10 / A-610 in Sherbrooke; A-20 (TCH) in Drummondville; A-20 (TCH) / A-955 in Sainte-Eulalie; A-30 / R-132 in Bécancour; R-138 in Trois-Rivières; A-40 in Trois-Rivières
North end	R-155 in Shawinigan, Quebec
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Major cities	Sherbrooke, Drummondville, Trois-Rivières, Shawinigan
Highway system
	Quebec provincial highways; Autoroutes; List; Former;

Autoroute 55 (also called Autoroute de l'Énergie north of the Autoroute 20 and Autoroute Joseph-Armand Bombardier south of it) is an important north–south Autoroute and the only one running in that direction in central Quebec. It is the longest north-south Autoroute, beginning as the continuation of I-91 at the Canada–United States border near Stanstead and continuing to Shawinigan, where it downgrades to Route 155. The total length of A-55 is currently 247 km (153.5 mi) long, including concurrencies with Autoroute 10, Autoroute 20 and Autoroute 40.

Route description

Autoroute 55 connects the mid-sized communities of Sherbrooke, Drummondville, Trois-Rivières, and Shawinigan and the smaller communities in between. The most notable feature on A-55 is the Laviolette Bridge between Trois-Rivières and Bécancour, which is one of the longest bridges in Quebec and in Canada.

A-55 had a short "gap" between Bécancour and Drummondville until October 2006. The gap resulted from Transports Quebec's original intention of bringing A-55 southeast towards Victoriaville along what is now Autoroute 955 before shifting southwest to rejoin existing A-55 near Richmond. However, plans changed in the 1970s, and the present routing was chosen. The southern section was originally supposed to be Autoroute 51 and was intended to continue to the planned extension of Autoroute 30 in Pierreville. A-55 was signed along Route 155 (which is not an Autoroute-standard highway) until the new route was completed.

All of the southern portion of A-55 became a full four-lane freeway by the end of October 2006. The gap being filled in the northern portion will initially be a two-lane freeway for about 20 km (12.4 mi), but it is intended to ultimately be four lanes.

The designation Autoroute Joseph-Armand Bombardier is in honour of Quebec businessman Joseph-Armand Bombardier, who lived in Valcourt, near where A-55 passes and who invented the snowmobile there. His company, Bombardier Inc., started by building snowmobiles and eventually grew into a major international manufacturer of transit vehicles and aircraft.

The designation Autoroute de l'Énergie means "Energy Highway" since it provides access to the Gentilly Nuclear Generating Station in Bécancour and the hydroelectric facilities in Shawinigan and the Haut-Saint-Maurice area, but the section north of A-30 is likely to remain at its comparatively short length to Shawinigan for the foreseeable future.

Exit list

Region	RCM or ET	Location	mi	Old exit	New exit	Destinations	Notes
Estrie	Memphrémagog	Stanstead				I-91 south – St. Johnsbury	Continues in Vermont
				Canada–United States border Derby Line–Rock Island Border Crossing South end of Autoroute Joseph-Armand Bombardier
						Boulevard Notre-Dame (R-247 west)	At-grade intersection; traffic signals
					2	R-143 – Stanstead
		Stanstead-Est			6	Montée Baie Saint-Thomas
		Stanstead-Est				Chemin Curtis	At-grade intersection
		Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley			21	R-141 – Ayer's Cliff, Coaticook
		Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley			29	R-108 – Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley, North Hatley, Lennoxville
		Magog			32	Rue-Saint-Patrice, Boulevard Industriel
					33	R-112 – Magog (Centre-Ville)
				71^[i]	34 121^[i]	A-10 west – Montréal	A-55 branches east; south (west) end of A-10 concurrency; northbound signed as exits 34-E (east) and 34-O (west); southbound signed as 121
	Memphrémagog / Magog – Sherbrooke boundary			72^[i] 36	123^[i]	Rue Sherbrook (R-112) to R-249 – Magog (Centre-Ville), Saint-Denis-de-Brompton
	Sherbrooke			41	128^[i]	Boulevard Bourque (R-112)
				46	133^[i]	Chemin Saint-Roch Nord
				50	137^[i]	R-220 (Boulevard Industriel), Chemin de Saint-Élie
				54	140^[i]	A-410 east (Autoroute Jacques-O'Bready) to R-108 (Rue King)
				55	141^[i]	Boulevard de Monseigneur-Fortier
					143^[i]	A-610 east (Autoroute Louis-Bilodeau) to R-112 – Centre-Ville Sherbrooke, East Angus, Lac-Mégantic	A-55 turns north; north (east) end of A-10 concurrency
					58	Chemin des Écossais (R-222) – Saint-Denis-de-Brompton, Valcourt
					60	Rue Laval
	Windsor			71	R-249 – Windsor, Saint-Grégoire-de-Greenlay, Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton	Signed as exits 71N (north) and 71S (south) northbound
	Melbourne			85	R-243 – Racine, Valcourt, Melbourne
	Melbourne			88	R-116 – Acton Vale, Richmond, Val-des-Sources
	Ulverton			98	Chemin Mooney
Centre-du-Québec	Drummond	L'Avenir			103	Lefebvre, L'Avenir, Ulverton, Durham-Sud
		Drummondville			111	Route Caya
					116	R-139 – Wickham, Acton Vale, Granby, Saint-Nicéphore
					122	Boulevard Jean-de-Brébeuf - Drummondville
					125	R-122 – Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Drummondville
					128 173^[ii]	A-20 (TCH) west – Montréal	A-55 branches east; south (west) end of A-20 concurrency
				North end of Autoroute Joseph-Armand Bombardier
					175^[ii]	Boulevard Lemire (R-143 north) – Saint-Bonaventure, Saint-François-du-Lac	South (west) end of Route 143 concurrency
					177^[ii]	R-143 south – Saint-Majorique-de-Grantham, Drummondville	North (east) end of Route 143 concurrency
					179^[ii]	Chemin du Golf
		Saint-Charles-de-Drummond			181^[ii]	Saint-Charles-de-Drummond, Drummondville, Saint-Joachim-de-Courval
		Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover			185^[ii]	R-255 – Baie-du-Febvre, Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover, Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey
		Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil			191^[ii]	Sainte-Brigitte-des-Saults
		Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil			196^[ii]	R-259 – Nicolet, Sainte-Perpétue, Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil, Quebec
	Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil – Saint-Léonard-d'Aston boundary			200^[ii]	Saint-Léonard-d'Aston
	Saint-Léonard-d'Aston			202^[ii]	Rang du Moulin-Rouge
	Sainte-Eulalie			204^[ii]	Rang des Cédres, Rang des Plaines
				210^[ii] 145	A-955 south – Victoriaville, Saint-Albert, Warwick, Bécancour A-20 (TCH) east to R-161 – Quebec, Sainte-Eulalie, Saint-Valère	A-55 branches north; north (east) end of A-20 concurrency; A-955 exit 15
			South end of Autoroute de l'Énergie
	Saint-Wenceslas			153	9e Rang - Saint-Léonard-d'Aston, Saint-Wenceslas
	Saint-Célestin (Municipality)				R-226 – Saint-Célestin (Village)	At-grade intersection; traffic signals
	Bécancour				Rang Prince	At-grade intersection
					Chemin Forest - Précieux-Sang	At-grade intersection
					Chemin Thibodeau	At-grade intersection
				173	Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Wôlinak
				176	A-30 to R-132 – Bécancour, Sainte-Angèle	Exit 209 on A-30
Saint Lawrence River				Laviolette Bridge
Mauricie	City of Trois-Rivières				181	Rue Notre-Dame, Boulevard Gene-H.-Kruger (R-138)
					182	A-40 east – Trois-Rivières Centre-Ville, Quebec	South end of A-40 concurrency; exit 197 on A-40
					183	Boulevard Jean-XXIII
					186	A-40 west – Montreal	North end of A-40 concurrency; exit 196 on A-40
					191	Boulevard Industriel, Boulevard Saint-Michel
					196	Boulevard des Forges - Saint-Thomas-de-Caxton
	Saint-Étienne-des-Grès			202	Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, Saint-Barnabé
	Saint-Étienne-des-Grès			206	Saint-Boniface
	Saint-Boniface			211	R-153 – Saint-Boniface, Shawinigan
	Shawinigan				181	Rue Notre-Dame, Boulevard Gene-H.-Kruger (R-138)
					216	Rue Burrill
					217	Rue Garnier (R-351) – Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc
					220	Boulevard Hubert-Biermans, Boulevard Vallée-du-Parc
					223	5e avenue, 25e rue
					226	8e rue, 4e rue - Grand-Mère, Saint-Jean des Piles
						To R-153 – Saint-Tite R-155 north – Grandes-Piles, La Tuque	Roundabout; A-55 northern terminus, continues north as Route 155
				North end of Autoroute de l'Énergie
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j A-10 exit number
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l A-20 exit number

Gallery

Autoroute 55 southbound
Southbound view, showing super-2 undivided highway
Multiplex of Autoroutes 20 and 55
Southbound from Trois-Rivières at exit 181, approaching the Laviolette Bridge

References

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

External links

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[10_exit-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j A-10 exit number

[20_exit-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l A-20 exit number

[1] Ministère des transports, "Distances routières", page (?), Les Publications du Québec, 2005

[A55-2] "Répertoire des autoroutes du Québec" (in French). Transports Québec. Archived from the original on 2010-01-11. Retrieved 2008-02-23.

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v t e Expressways of Quebec
Main Class Autoroutes 5 10 13 15 19 20 25 30 31 35 40 50 55 70 73 85 Spur Class Autoroutes 410 610 520 530 730 930 440 (Laval) 440 (Quebec City) 540 640 740 955 573 973
Former 51 430 540 (Vaudreuil-Dorion) 550 720 755 Unbuilt 6 415 16 18 65 Other routes 112 116 117 132 134 136 (Montreal) 136 (Quebec City) 138 158 175 201 335
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