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33-460: The A-10 also provides access to popular winter resorts at Bromont , Owl's Head , Mont Sutton and Mont Orford . Motorists travelling on the A-10 can see eight of nine Monteregian Hills : Mount Royal , Mont Saint-Bruno , Mont Saint-Hilaire , Mont Saint-Grégoire , Mont Rougemont , Mont Yamaska , Mont Shefford and Mont Brome . The ninth, Mont Mégantic is located beyond the eastern terminus of

66-442: A freeway , Interstate Highway , or motorway . A bypass or beltway is not considered a spur route as it typically reconnects with another or the same major road. In the province of Ontario, most spur routes are designated as A or B, such as Highway 17A, or 7B. A stands for "Alternate Route", and usually links a highway to a town's central core or main attraction, while B stands for "Business Route" or "Bypass", but are used when

99-492: A frontage road . A-10 and A-55 bypass the city of Sherbrooke to the east and north, reaching interchanges with spur routes A-410 at km 140 and A-610 at km 143. The A-10 reaches its terminus at the junction with A-610, while A-55 continues north to Drummondville . The portion east of Autoroute 55 (linking that autoroute with Route 112 ) was renumbered as Autoroute 610 on September 29, 2006. [1] The 116 km (72 mi) long Autoroute de l'Est ( Eastern Expressway )

132-746: A "family" of routes with the "parent" route lacking the added "A". Examples of spur routes in the system include the Aomori Expressway (E4A) , linking the Tōhoku Expressway (E4) to the eastern limits of Aomori , and the Sasson Expressway (E5A) , linking the Dō-Ō Expressway (E5) to Otaru ; however, some expressways that lack the "A" designation could also be considered spurs, such as the Kansai-Kūkō Expressway (E71) or

165-580: A Quebec government agency. The A-10 featured five toll stations (at current km 22, km 37, km 68, km 90, and km 115). Motorists were charged $ 1.50 to make the entire trip. The Autoroute Bonaventure through Montreal opened in 1967 to link approach roads to Expo 67 with the Champlain Bridge. The Autoroute des Cantons de l'Est was the first autoroute in Quebec to use exit numbers based on distance instead of in sequential order, as had previously been

198-553: A city or bypassing it and then reconnecting to a major highway would receive an even first digit, and be considered a loop rather than a spur. For example, in the case of Interstate 5 , Interstate 105 is a spur route ending at Los Angeles International Airport , whereas Interstate 405 begins and ends at Interstate 5 , bypassing downtown Los Angeles . Spurs are also found branching from US highways , state routes , and county routes , often as extended onramps and offramps of expressways . There are many numbering violations in

231-510: A final terminus with Route 112. In October 2006, that section of A-10 was renumbered as A-610. The city of Montreal announced in January 2013 that it would take over the SHM's responsibilities, citing concerns over transparency. The Société du Havre de Montréal (SHM) transformed the autoroute into an urban thoroughfare as part of a broader project to redevelop Montreal's harbourfront. Demolition of

264-496: A main highway is routed around a town and away from its former alignment. The designation of "C" was used twice (Highway 3C and 40C), and is assumed to mean "Connector". Both highways have long since been retired and are now county roads . There was also one road with the D designation (Highway 8D, later the original Highway 102), and this may have stood for "Diversion", as it was along the first completed divided highway in Canada at

297-544: A relatively short spur route that connects an autostrada (Italian for motorway ) to a nearby city or tourist resort not directly served by the motorway. These spurs are owned and managed by Anas . Some spurs are toll-free motorways (type-A), but most are type-B or type-C roads. All RA have separate carriageways with two lanes in each direction. Generally, they do not have an emergency lane. In Japan, spurs of its expressways are usually designated with an added letter "A". This designation applies to all routes that are part of

330-433: A three-digit number. The last two digits of the number are the number of the "parent" Interstate ( Interstate 238 , which connects Interstate 880 with Interstate 580 near Hayward, CA, is the only exception to this); e.g. a spur route of Interstate 90 could be 990; a spur route of Interstate 5 could be 105. Spur Interstate routes have three-digit numbers with an odd first digit. A subsidiary route either passing through

363-562: A unique A-number road) and the unique case of the M181 motorway , a spur of a spur M180 motorway , and that of the M18 motorway A-road spurs do not follow a noticeable numbering system; they would be impossible to assign due to the quantity of A-road numbers in use. In the US, many Interstate Highways have spur routes when they enter a large metropolitan area. Interstate spur routes are numbered with

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396-684: Is asphalt concrete , many parts of the highway are bordered with gravel . The A-10 begins in Downtown Montreal as an extension of Robert-Bourassa Boulevard near Place Bonaventure . Two underground ramps provide an interchange with the R-136 . At km 1, the A-10 crosses the Lachine Canal , then travels along the St. Lawrence River to an interchange with the A-15 and A-20 . This interchange

429-494: Is 2000 feet high, and the resort has a vertical drop of 1300 feet. The resort has 9 chair lifts. The ski resort opened in 1964, for the 1964-1965 ski season, with the opening of the new Eastern Townships Autoroute, Quebec Autoroute 10 . It was created in the same year that the City of Bromont was created, out of Brome County . A second chalet was established at the top of the mountain in 1978. The City of Montreal has invested in

462-630: Is an alpine ski resort located in Bromont, Quebec on the slopes of Mont Brome , Mont Spruce, and Pic du Chevreuil. As of the 2009-2010 season, it was the largest centre in North America for illuminated alpine skiing. It is one of the four major ski centres in the Eastern Townships east of Montreal , the other three being Ski Mont Sutton , Ski Mont Orford , and Owl's Head . It is about 45 minutes from Montreal. Mount Brome

495-530: Is partially on the Island of Montreal and partially on Nuns' Island . At km 2, it crosses (but does not provide access to) Route 112 at the north end of Victoria Bridge . The A-10 has mostly two lanes in each direction on the majority of its length and the speed limit is mostly 100 km/h. The A-10 is multiplexed with the A-15 and A-20 across the Champlain Bridge. All three autoroutes diverge soon after reaching

528-797: The Brașov . In the UK , a spur route carries the same definition, but the numbering rules differ. Short spurs from primary roads or motorways typically are not given a unique number, and three arms of the junction will apparently have the same number. For example, the A14 has a same-number spur to the A1(M) motorway at Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire , the M23 motorway has one to Gatwick Airport in West Sussex and

561-637: The Government of Canada ). At km 8, the A-10 crosses Taschereau Boulevard . Bus lanes run in both directions along the median for four kilometers between the southern end of the Champlain Bridge and Milan Boulevard. Crossing Brossard, the A-10 runs along the northern edge of the Quartier DIX30 shopping complex before reaching interchanges with the A-30 at km 11 and the A-35 at km 22. The A-10 crosses

594-522: The M4 has one to Heathrow Airport . To distinguish the spur on road signs, the road it leads to is usually given - for example "Gatwick Airport ( A23 )". Typically, slightly longer spurs, or those with intermediate junctions of their own, are given unique numbers to distinguish them from their parent road, for example, the A48(M) motorway , a spur of the M4 . There is a loose numbering system for these spurs on

627-555: The Richelieu River at km 28 and enters a rich agricultural region. Between Bromont (km 74) and Magog (km 121) the A-10 passes through a mountainous region, close to two of Quebec's major ski centres (Mont Orford and Mont Brome). Near the northern end of Lake Memphremagog , the A-10 reaches an interchange with the A-55 at km 121. The A-10 continues east as a concurrency with A-55. Between km 123 and 128, Route 112 functions as

660-586: The Ōita Airport Road (E97) . In New Zealand, spurs on state highways are usually designated with an added letter. Examples include SH 2B , linking SH 2 to Napier Airport, and SH 6A , linking SH 6 with Queenstown town center. Not all such alphabetic suffixes refer to spurs, however; ring roads and linking roads between highways are also so designated. Conversely, some State Highways could themselves be considered spurs, notably SH 78 , New Zealand's shortest state highway, which links SH 1 in Timaru city center with

693-583: The Port of Timaru. Such spurs and spur roads leading from smaller urban thoroughfares to individual facilities are often referred to in New Zealand as "feeder roads". All national roads, local roads and county roads have spur routes. A good example is DN1 and DN1A . DN1A goes from Bucharest to Brașov via Buftea , and have an intersection with DN1 at Ploiești . After Ploiești , DN1A goes to Vălenii de Munte, Cheia, and then DN1A goes directly onto

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726-670: The autoroute. The A-10 carries the name Autoroute Bonaventure ( Bonaventure Expressway ) from its start in Montreal's city centre to the Champlain Bridge . From there until its terminus in Sherbrooke, the A-10 is called the Autoroute des Cantons-de-l'Est ( Eastern Townships Expressway ), a reference to the historic name given to the region east of Montreal and north of the U.S. border . The road's main material

759-759: The autoroute’s elevated stretch began in July 2016 and the new Bonaventure Park was completed in September 2017. A proposal to build the East-West Highway across central and northern Maine calls for the A-10 to be extended to the U.S. border at Coburn Gore where it would meet the new highway. Doing so would create a new and more direct limited-access highway link between Maine, the Maritime Provinces through New Brunswick Route 1 , and Quebec. Ski Bromont Bromont, montagne d'expériences

792-404: The case. As Canada had not yet adopted the metric system , exit numbers referenced the distance in miles from the southern end of the Champlain Bridge. The A-10 did not originally have a route number. Instead, route marker signs featured a red triangular shield featuring the name of the route. Unusually, the directional signs were also originally red. Later, blue shields and signs replaced

825-733: The motorway network, not dissimilar to the US system – the road takes a three-digit number derived from that of the parent road. Examples include the M602 motorway (spur of the M60 and M62 motorways), M621 motorway (spur of the M62 and M1 motorways), and M271 motorway (spur of the M27 motorway ). There are anomalous spur numbers though, for instance the M898 motorway (spur of the M8 motorway ; number given to match with

858-547: The parent National Highway, they are not merely secondary in status as some of the spur routes serve important cities in India. For example, Srinagar , the capital of the state of Jammu and Kashmir , is served by the spur route NH 1A. Some spur routes are specifically used to connect important Indian ports : NH 5A links Paradip with its parent NH 5 and NH 7A links Tuticorin with NH 7 ). The acronym RA stands for Raccordo autostradale (translated as "motorway connection"),

891-493: The red versions. In 1985, the toll system was abolished, and the use of the triangular shields was discontinued. Blue directional signs have gradually been converted to standard green signs used elsewhere in North America . In 2013, motorists could still see blue signs at entrances to and exits of the autoroute. Between 1988 and 2006, A-10 departed its multiplex with A-55 at km 143 and continued eastward for 11 km to

924-600: The resort has staged events for the alpine Eastern Canada Cup . The resort has hosted the Bromont Cup , an alpine event that has been part of the Pontiac Cup , a national ski championship in Canada, that was based on the international championship, in the 1960s. It has also hosted an alpine World Cup event. Also hosted has been a freestyle World Cup event. Amongst other things outside of ski season available at

957-412: The resort, is an aquatic park, with water slides. In 2018, Bromont replaced a 1985-built high speed quadruple Poma chairlift by Canada's second hybrid lift composed of six place chairs and eight passenger cabins, at a cost of roughly 10.1 M$ , part of Bromont's 111 M$ Projet Altitude plan. Spur route A spur route is a short road forming a branch from a longer, more important road such as

990-623: The resort. The Canadian government has also invested in the resort. Its investment, for a World Cup event, created permanent facilities for the Bromont Ski School. Bromont became the largest night skiing venue in eastern North America in 2006 when it upped its lighted ski runs to 50. At one time, the resort was part of the Ski East promotional group, along with the resorts of Jay Peak Resort (Vermont), Ski Mont Orford , Ski Mont Sutton , Owl's Head , Ski Mt. Echo . At one time,

1023-640: The southern edge of the bridge. The A-10 serves as an important link for commuters travelling to downtown Montreal from suburban South Shore communities via the Champlain Bridge. It also provides access to the Montreal Technoparc and the Concordia Bridge . The A-10 in Montreal is jointly owned by the city of Montreal , the Société Les Ponts Jacques Cartier, and Federal Bridge Corporation (an agency of

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1056-552: The time ( Cootes Drive in Hamilton ). The Indian National Highway system designates spur routes of the main National Highways with letter suffixes. For example, National Highway 1 has four spur routes: NH 1A , NH 1B , NH 1C , and NH 1D , the shortest of which is just 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) in length (NH 1C) and the longest is 663 kilometres (412 mi) (NH 1A). While the spur routes essentially originate at

1089-549: Was opened to traffic in December 1964. Extending from the southern end of the Champlain Bridge to Magog, the highway replaced the old Quebec Route 1 (now Route 112) as the main road link between the two points. An official opening for the highway came one year later, in 1965. The A-10 was the second autoroute, after the Laurentian Autoroute outside Montreal, to be commissioned. Both were opened as toll highways by

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