A2 autoroute

{{Short description|Controlled-access highway from Combles to the Belgian A7}}

{{Unreferenced|date=December 2009}}

{{Infobox road

|country = FRA

|type = A

|route = 2

|maint=SANEF

|length_km=76

|established=1972

|direction_a=South

|direction_b=North

|terminus_a={{Jct|country=FRA|A|1|dab1=}} near Combles

|terminus_b=Belgian road List of motorways in Belgium#A7

|junction= {{Jct|country=FRA|A|26|dab1=}} near Cambrai
{{Jct|country=FRA|A|23|dab1=}} near Valenciennes

|e-road={{Jct|country=FRA|E|19}}

}}

The A2 Autoroute is a French autoroute that travels {{Convert|76|km|abbr=on}} from the A1 near the commune of Combles in Picardy to the border with Belgium, where it continues on as the Belgian motorway A7. The entire length is concurrently designated as European route E19.

In conjunction with the A1 autoroute and the Belgian A7 it is the main route between Paris and Brussels. Until other more direct motorway routes are completed it is also the fastest route from Paris to the Belgian city of Liège.

From Combles to Cambrai, the autoroute is managed by the Société des Autoroutes du Nord et de l'Est de la France (SANEF) and is a toll road, with no exits on the southernmost {{convert|22.8|km|mi}} of the A2 between the A1 and the A26 at Graincourt-lès-Havrincourt. From Cambrai onward it is a non-toll autoroute managed by the government of the Nord department. Two lanes travel in each direction.

The A2 was opened in two stages in 1972. The first stage from junction 15 to the Belgian border opened on 28 March. The remainder, from Junction 15 to the interchange with the A1 opened on 19 December 1972.

List of exits and junctions

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rowspan="29"|Hauts-de-France

|rowspan="1"|Somme

|0.0

|0.0

|Image:Sinnbild Autobahnkreuz.svg A2 - A1

|Paris, Charles-de-Gaulle, Senlis, Compiègne, Amiens (A29)

|Entry and Exit from A1 Paris

rowspan="4"|Pas-de-Calais
colspan="5" style="text-align:center; | {{Motorway rest|Aire de Rocquigny (eastbound)}}
{{Motorway rest|Aire de Barastre (westbound)}}
colspan="5" style="text-align:center; | {{Motorway service|Aire d'Havrincourt (eastbound)}}
{{Motorway service|Aire de Graincourt (westbound)}}
22

|13.6

|Image:Sinnbild Autobahnkreuz.svg A2 - A26

|Reims, Saint-Quentin, Lille (A1), Arras, Laon, Calais

|

rowspan="23"|Nord

|27

|16.7

|{{Motorway exit|14 : Cambrai - ouest (RD 630)}}

|Cambrai, Bapaume

|

colspan="5" style="text-align:center; | {{Motorway toll|Péage de Thun-l'Évêque}}
40

|24.8

|{{Motorway exit|15 : Hordain (RD 630)}}

|Amiens, Saint-Quentin par RD, Cambrai - nord, Bouchain, Aniche, Hordain

|

42

|26.1

|{{Motorway exit|16 : Bouchain}}

| Bouchain, Hordain

|

43

|26.7

|{{Motorway exit|17 : Douchy-les-Mines (RD 630)}}

|Douchy-les-Mines

|Entry and Exit from Paris

45

|27.9

| A2 - A21

|Denain - Nouveau-Monde, Douai, Escaudain, Somain, Aniche

|

48

|29.8

|{{Motorway exit|18 : Denain - centre}}

|Denain, Haulchin, Z. I de Thiant

|

51

|31.6

|{{Motorway exit|19 : Z. I Prouvy-Rouvignies}}

|Aéroport de Valenciennes-Denain

|Exit from Paris

53

|32.9

|{{Motorway exit|20 : Valenciennes - Le Vignoble (RD 630)}}

|Valenciennes, La Sentinelle, Trith-Saint-Léger, Anzin

|

colspan="5" style="text-align:center; | {{Motorway service|Aire de La Sentinelle - Est (eastbound)}}
{{Motorway service|Aire de La Sentinelle - Ouest (westbound)}}
54

|33.5

|Image:Sinnbild Autobahnkreuz.svg  A2 - A23

| Lille, Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, Valenciennes - ouest, Anzin

|

55

|34.1

|{{Motorway exit|21 : Valenciennes - centre}}

|Marly, Valenciennes, Solesmes, Le Cateau

|

57

|35.4

|{{Motorway exit|22a : Maubeuge}}

|Maubeuge, Bavay, Le Quesnoy

|Entry and Exit from Paris

57

|35.4

|{{Motorway exit|22b : Valenciennes - Le Roleur}}

|Valenciennes, Marly

|Entry and Exit from Paris

59

|36.6

|{{Motorway exit|23 : Saint-Saulve}}

|Marly, Valenciennes, Saint-Saulve

|

62

|38.5

|{{Motorway exit|23.1 : Sebourg}}

|Estreux, Condé-sur-l'Escaut, Quarouble, Sebourg

|

64

|39.7

|{{Motorway exit|24 : Onnaing}}

|Onnaing

|

69

|42.8

|{{Motorway exit|25 : Vicq}}

|Vicq

|

colspan="5" style="text-align:center; | {{Motorway rest|Aire d'Enclosis (westbound)}}
74

|45.9

|{{Motorway exit|26 : Crespin}}

|Crespin

|Entry and Exit from Paris

colspan="5" style="text-align:center; | {{Motorway rest|Aire de Saint-Aybert (eastbound)}}
colspan="7" | French - Belgian Border ; {{Jct|country=FRA|A|2|dab1=}} becomes Belgian road List of motorways in Belgium#A7 {{Jct|country=BEL|A|7|dab1=}}

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European Routes

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| European Route

| Location

{{Jct|country=FRA|E|19}}

| entire length

References

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