Autoroute du Porc de Jambon | ||||
Route information | ||||
Maintained by Transports Québec | ||||
Length | 53.2 km[1][2] (33.1 mi) | |||
Existed | 1961[3]–present | |||
Major junctions | ||||
West end | R-344 in Oka | |||
A-13 in Boisbriand A-15 (TCH) in Sainte-Thérèse A-40 in Charlemagne | ||||
East end | R-344 in Charlemagne | |||
Location | ||||
Country | Canada | |||
Province | Quebec | |||
Major cities | Terrebonne, Blainville, Saint-Eustache, Mascouche, Boisbriand | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Autoroute 640 (or A-640) is a Quebec autoroute that runs across the North Shore Region (paralleling the Rivière des Mille-Îles) from Route 344 in the Oka area to Route 138, where it ends as a four-lane expressway in Charlemagne. The road was designed to be northern bypass of the city of Montréal and was originally intended to cross the Lake of Two Mountains to connect to Autoroute 40 near Vaudreuil[citation needed]. It is currently 54.8 km (34.1 mi) long.
A-640 begins at Chemin d'Oka (Route 344) at a traffic circle near Oka National Park, and terminates at a signalized at-grade intersection with Rue Émile-Despins (Route 344) in Charlemagne.
A-640 was built over the following timeline:[citation needed]
The entire route is located in Laurentides.
Location | km | mi | Exit | Destinations | Notes | |
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Oka | 0.00 | 0.00 | – | R-344 – Oka, Pointe-Calumet, Parc national d'Oka | Traffic circle | |
Deux Montagnes | 2 | Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, Pointe-Calumet | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |||
8 | Boulevard des Promenades – Deux-Montagnes, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac | |||||
Saint-Eustache | 11 | R-148 (Boulevard Arthur-Sauvé) – Lachute, Saint-Eustache | ||||
14 | 25e Avenue | |||||
Boisbriand | 16 | A-13 south (Autoroute Chomedey) – Laval, Montréal, Aéroport P.-E.-Trudeau | Northern terminus of A-13; exit 22 on A-13 | |||
19 | Boisbriand | Westbound exit is via exit 20 | ||||
Sainte-Thérèse | 20 | A-15 (TCH) (Autoroute des Laurentides) – Blainville, Saint-Jérôme, Montréal, Aéroport Mirabel | Exit 20 on A-15 | |||
Rosemère | 22 | R-117 – Sainte-Thérèse, Blainville, Rosemère | ||||
Blainville | 24 | Montée Lesage / Chemin du-Bas-de-Sainte-Thérèse | ||||
Lorraine | 26 | Lorraine | Access via Boulevard de Gaulle | |||
Bois-des-Filion | 28 | R-335 – Bois-des-Filion, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines | ||||
Terrebonne | 32 | Avenue Urbanova | Eastbound exit and entrance | |||
35 | Boulevard des Entreprises / Boulevard des Seigneurs | |||||
Mascouche | 38 | R-337 (Chemin Gascon) / Chemin des Anglais – Terrebonne, Mascouche | ||||
Terrebonne | 42 | A-25 / R-125 (Montée Masson) – Mascouche, Rawdon, Montréal | Signed as exits 42S (south) and 42N (north); exit 25 on A-25 | |||
44 | Chemin Charles-Aubert / Rue Louis-Hébert | |||||
45 | Montée Dumais | |||||
Charlemagne | 52 | A-40 (Autoroute Félix-Leclerc) – Montréal, Québec, Aéroport P.-E.-Trudeau | Signed as exits 52E (east) and 52O (west) | |||
– | R-344 – Terrebonne, Repentigny | At-grade intersection | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |