SAFETY CONGESTION PAVEMENT CONDITION CLARITY OF SIGNING AESTHETICS
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From EXIT 9 to EXIT 22, A-10 needs to be six-laned. Also, some interchanges such as EXIT 6 (QC 132/A-15/A-20) in Brossard and EXIT 68 (QC 139) in Granby are antiquated and need to be reconstructed to more modern standards. A couple of additional partial or complete interchanges should be built as well.
Reviewed by: Steve Anderson Last Traveled: 2000
SAFETY CONGESTION PAVEMENT CONDITION CLARITY OF SIGNING AESTHETICS
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Autoroute 10 begins as the Bonaventure Autoroute, a short six-lane link between the Ville Marie Autoroute (A-720) in downtown Montreal and the approach to the Champlain Bridge. To make traveling easier, signs are in both French and English, a rarity in "La Belle Province."
A-10 crosses the St. Lawrence River over the cantilever-truss Champlain Bridge. It can get congested even during midday. Reversible lanes are used for buses during rush hour.
Less than three miles east of the Champlain Bridge, A-10 drops abruptly from three to two lanes in each direction. A-10 should be widened to at least the interchange with A-35.
Continuing east of A-35 (which I last drove back in 1992), A-10 takes on a differently personality as it traverses the Eastern Townships (Estrie) region. The landscape of the upper Appalachians opens up before you. If you look carefully, you will find some of the original blue destination signs from when A-10 was a toll road.
Between Magog and Sherbrooke A-10 is multiplexed with A-55. It departs A-10 just before A-55 leaves Sherbrooke, and continues on its own through Fleurimont. For its last couple of miles, A-10 is a "super-2" before it ends unceremoniously at Ascot Corner. (A-10 ended at EXIT 216 / QC 216 in Fleurimont when I was last there in 1992; the "super-2" to Ascot Corner had not been built yet.)
