A-55 NB/A-10 EB courtesy Averill Hecht, on a duplex which no longer exists, as I will soon explain. These exit numbers, which belong to A-10, originally corresponded to those of A-55 until A-10 was extended to Sherbrooke (thanks to Stéphane Dumas for confirmation).


A-55 NB and A-10 EB, courtesy Chris Curley. A-10 now ends at this interchange, and the very poor shield removal jobs tell you what the tacked-on, taped-over shields confirm - what was A-10 until 2006 is now A-610, for the short spur east to QC 112. This doesn't make sense - A-10 should be truncated back to its western junction with A-55, instead of ending ueslessly along a multiplex.


A-55 NB at the renumbered Sortie 85, courtesy Averill Hecht. This seems to be a very economical way to tell you the exit number changed, though unlike with the NEW EXIT XX tabs that Pennsylvania uses, the entire sign will have to be replaced once Québec is done telling you the new exit number. This appears to have been a one-time error in exit numbering, based on a 1995 atlas that SPUI procured.


Southbound photos along the remaining Super-2 freeway from Bécancour (home of the best poutine in the world) south to Sainte-Eulalie. A lot of these freeway is new this millennium; before then, traffic had to use QC 155 or QC 161 to get around the gap. Also, as new as part of it is, the entire Super-2 is on track to be dualized in the next few years. As you can see, the overpasses are ready. It's a shame that after all these years, A-55 finally ties seamlessly into A-955, but 955's hopes of carrying the A-55 designation to Richmond have been permanently dashed.


It's all well and good to sign A-30 here, except Ouest won't take you very far, because a few hundred meters to the west is QC 132, where this stub of A-30 currently ends and is likely to end for a good many years before the gap is filled. Which of course makes it all the stranger why QC 132 is signed straight ahead along the NB frontage road, instead of Est being straight and Ouest being signed here instead of A-30.


Southbound across the Fleuve St.-Laurent, with the only blurry photo I took obscuring the old diagrammatic exit tab for Sortie 176 (A-30/QC 132). Now that there's a barrier in the middle, the lane use arrows seem redundant, but I suppose there could always be an incident requiring two-way flow on one side. The southbound drive continues with a video.


Southbound at the exit to A-40 to the west, and then multiplexed with A-40 EB past an old exit tab that did come out okay (using A-40's exit numbering). To briefly touch on the Boulevard des Forges exit, it's incorrect - this is Boulevard des Chenaux, which does intersect Boul. des Forges nearly 3 km to the east, but that's hardly a reason to sign the exit this way. Now to the main story: Just like A-30 to the south and A-55 to the south of that, A-40 has a stub here. The right of way is perfectly clear through northern Trois Rivières and around Cap-de-la-Madeleine, and comes back into A-40 right where it currently follows a sharp bend from east-west to north-south. This part of A-40 would be much better off as A-840, and the 10 km gap filled with the freeway it's waiting for, but there don't seem to be any plans around to complete the freeway here. Perhaps not coincidentally, A-40 ended here at A-55 for many years before being extended to Québec City.

Don't forget the video crossing the St. Lawrence River!

Onto A-10
Sortie 128 or 143 to QC 112
Sortie 176 to A-30
Sortie 176 to QC 132
Onto A-40
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