Quebec Autoroute 13

Autoroute 13
Autoroute Chomedey
A-13 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by Transports Québec
Length	21.9 km[1] (13.6 mi)
Existed	1975[2]–present
Major junctions
South end	A-20 in Montréal
Major intersections	A-520 in Dorval A-40 (TCH) in Montreal A-440 in Laval
North end	A-640 in Boisbriand
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Major cities	Montréal, Laval, Boisbriand, Dorval
Highway system
Quebec provincial highways Autoroutes List Former
← A-10 → A-15

Autoroute 13 (or A-13, also known as Autoroute Chomedey with sections formerly known as Autoroute Mirabel), is a freeway in the urban region of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its southern end is at the junction of A-20 on the Island of Montreal near Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. Its northern terminus is at the junction of A-640 near Boisbriand. The road traverses Laval. A-13 is mostly six-laned and tolls were removed.

Autoroute 13 was originally built as a toll highway in 1975, ultimately to connect the two international airports, Mirabel and Dorval (now Trudeau International Airport). However A-13 was not built beyond its interim terminus at A-640, leaving only A-15 to connect Mirabel with Montréal island.

The designation of Autoroute Chomedey refers to the community of Chomedey in Laval, through which A-13 passes. Formerly, common usage was to refer to the autoroute as Autoroute Chomedey south of the Milles-Îles river, and Autoroute Mirabel north of that point. In recent usage, however, the Autoroute Chomedey name is generally used for the full length of the autoroute. Boulevard Pitfield is routed as a parallel service road to A-13 in St-Laurent.

Boulevard Pitfield derives its name from the origin of the actual route. In the 1920s, the actual route was a Polo Pony Trail leading from the various estates of the Saraguay Village residents to their Polo Fields, now where the area of St. Laurent Blvd and Bois Franc merge. In the late 1930s the path became an unpaved local road. Over the next several decades Saraguay Farms, owned by Mrs. W.C. Pitfield, was paid to clear the road in the winter by the municipality of St. Laurent. The road was developed into a two-lane highway in the 1960s.

The Quebec provincial government was planning to extend Autoroute 13 north of A-640 in the late 1990s as an alternate route for A-15 (Autoroute Décarie/Autoroute des Laurentides).

Exit list

RCM	Location	km[1]	mi	Exit	Destinations	Notes
Montréal	Montréal	0.0	0.0	1	A-20 (Autoroute du Souvenir) / 32 Avenue / rue Victoria – Centre-Ville Montréal, Aéroport P.-E.-Trudeau, Toronto	Exit 60 on A-20
		1.7	1.1	2	Rue Hickmore / Rue Louis-A.-Amos
	Montréal–Dorval	3.2	2.0	3	A-520 (Autoroute de la Côte-de-Liesse) – Aéroport P.-E.-Trudeau	Signed as exits 3E (east) and 3O (west); exit 4 on A-520
		3.8– 4.2	2.4– 2.6	Tunnel under Montréal–Trudeau International Airport
	Montréal	6.1	3.8	6	A-40 (TCH) – Ottawa, Gatineau, Québec	Exit 60 on A-40
		7.5– 8.8	4.7– 5.5	8	Boulevard Henri-Bourassa / Boulevard Gouin
Rivière des Prairies		9.1– 9.6	5.7– 6.0	Pont Louis Bisson
Laval		10.1	6.3	12	Boulevard Samson / Boulevard Notre-Dame / Boulevard Saint-Martin	Northbound exit; south end of collector/distributor lanes
		13.3	8.3		Boulevard Samson / Boulevard Notre-Dame	Southbound exit
		14.0– 16.5	8.7– 10.3	15	A-440 (Autoroute Jean-Noël-Lavoie) to R-148 (Avenue des Bois)	Exit 17 on A-440
					Boulevard Dagenais	Northbound exit
					Boulevard Saint-Martin	Southbound exit
		16.8	10.4	17	Boulevard Sainte-Rose	Northbound exit
		18.4	11.4	17	Boulevard Dagenais / Boulevard Sainte-Rose	Southbound exit; north end of collector/distributor lanes
Rivière des Mille Îles		18.6– 19.4	11.6– 12.1	Pont Vachon
Thérèse-De Blainville	Boisbriand	20.2	12.6	20	R-344 (Chemin de la Grande-Côte) – Boisbriand, Saint-Eustache
		21.9	13.6	22	A-640 – Repentigny, Saint-Eustache, Oka	Signed as exits 22E (east) and 22O (west); exit 16 on A-640
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Incomplete access

• Lowest Annual Average Daily Traffic: 38 000 (between R-344 and A-640 in 2000)
• Highest Annual Average Daily Traffic: 140 000 (between A-40 and A-440 in 2000)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Quebec Autoroute 13.

• Transport Quebec website
• Transport Quebec map Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
• A-13 at motorways-exits.com
• A-13 at Quebec Autoroutes
• Steve Anderson's MontrealRoads.com: Chomedey Autoroute (A-13)

This page was last edited on 23 July 2023, at 16:28