A6 autoroute

A6 autoroute
A6 autoroute
Autoroute du Soleil
Route information
	Part of E15 / E21 / E60 / E70
	Maintained by : ; DIR Île-De-France between Wissous and Lisses;; APRR between Lisses and Limonest;
Length	445.6 km (276.9 mi)
Existed	1960–present
Major junctions
West end	E5 / A 6a / E15 / E50 / A 6b in Wissous (Paris)
	A 77 in Poligny; E60 / E511 / A 19 in Piffonds; A 38 in Pouilly-en-Auxois; E17 / E21 / A 31 in Beaune; E21 / A 40 in Sancé; E62 / A 406 in Mâcon; E15 / A 46 in Ambérieux; E70 / A 466 in Les Chères; E70 / A 89 in Limonest (Lyon);
East end	M 6 in Limonest
Location
Country	France
Highway system
	Roads in France; Autoroutes; Routes nationales;

The A6 autoroute (French: Autoroute A6), also known simply as the A6 or, along with the A7, as the Autoroute du Soleil ([otoʁut dy sɔlɛj]; English: Motorway of the Sun), is an autoroute (motorway) in France, linking Paris to Lyon. The motorway starts at Paris's Porte d'Orléans and Porte d'Italie with two branches, numbered A6a and A6b respectively, which join south of Paris. At Limonest ahead of Lyon, it becomes the M6.

The motorway is favoured by holidaymakers as it is the main link to the South of France (A7) and the French Riviera (A8). At 455 km long it is France's third longest autoroute after the A10 autoroute and the A4 autoroute.

The A6 motorway used to be prone to severe traffic jams around Fourvière Tunnel near Lyon prior to the opening in 1992 of A46 autoroute and in 2011 of the A432 autoroute which is also called the "Contournement de Lyon" and known as the "Lyon Rocade Est".

A 200-kilometre (120-mile) stretch of the A6 motorway around Mâcon, Chalon-sur-Saône and Montceau-les-Mines, France, is known for the A6 disappearances, a number of mysterious disappearances or other crimes involving women and girls, occurring in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.