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The A-40, known as 'Autoroute 40' and officially named 'Autoroute Félix-Leclerc' runs from stretches from the border of [[Ontario]] to the West and finishes just East of [[Quebec city]]. The A-40 highway continues it's path into [[Ontario]] as the H-417 which goes to [[Ottawa]] at the provincial border in Rigaud. It also runs parallel to the St-Lawrence River on its northern bank crossing [[Montreal]] Island, [[Trois-Rivières]] before finally reaching [[Quebec city]] where the highway merge with the national 138 which goes further East.
===== [[Montreal Metropolitan|Montreal Metropolitan Area]] =====
In [[Montreal]], the A-40 runs in the northern part of the island and is known as 'Autoroute Metropolitaine' before reaching the North Bank at the 'Charles-De-Gaulle Bridge' in Repentigny. In the metropolitan area, the highway include two periphical branch meant to avoid the urban traffic and facilitate the transport towards the northern regions. From Repentigny, the A-440 and the A-440 aim to by-pass [[Montreal]] Island, the A-440 goes directly and finishes into [[Laval]] while the A-640 follows the North Bank before finishing in the surrounding of Oka.
In [[Trois-Rivières]], the by-pass highway project has never been built. Therefore, the highway runs directly into downtown and requires that you change into the A-55 on the western part of the city. While the west southern downtown junction between the A-40 and A-55 would be a hitching disaster (therefore do not hitch along the highway there!), the northern junction (leading to Montreal westbound) would even enable you to hitch directly on the highway viaduc. The distance to travel on the A-55 is about 4km in term of canadian Canadian distance its short enough to usually have a driver do the detour to drop you there.
In [[Quebec city]], the A-40 (known as 'Autoroute de la Capitale') act as a by-pass while the A-440 (known as 'Boulevard Charest') goes directly into downtown. Both the A-40 and A-440 terminates in the vicinity of [[Quebec city]] crossing the path of the A-75 (North to [[Chicoutimi]]), to continue on a journey further East, you would have to follow the National Road 138 towards Charlevoix.
The other off the highway Services are located at Exit 144 - Berthierville (which can lead you to the St-Lawrence South Shore by the [[Sorel]] Ferry) and at Exit 180 - Yamachiche.
Before entering [[Montreal Metropolitan|Montreal]] Island and unless you get a ride to nearly downtown or at least a metro station, your last option would be the Exit 94 - Lachenaie. Note that the first 8 Exit (coming from the East) on the Island are purely to the Industrial Estates.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Autoroute_40 A-40 Wikipedia]
