Grand Reports - Highway A1: Bitumen and Men

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The A1 motorway: bitumen and men - the first motorway in France, the A1 connects Paris to Lille since 1967. It runs 211 km, crossing two regions and six departments, from the Seine-Saint-Denis and its economic poles to the North, passing through the Val d'Oise, the Oise, the Somme and the Pas-de-Calais. Although the A1 motorway is one of the shortest in France, with 36 million vehicles a year and more than 60,000 trucks a day, it is one of the m…