Quebec Autoroute 740

Autoroute 740 is a Quebec Autoroute in metropolitan Quebec City, Canada. A spur route of Autoroute 40, the A-740 runs for 7.3 km (4.5 mi) on a north-south axis (parallel to the St. Lawrence River) through the boroughs of Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge and Les Rivières, with interchanges at the A-440 at exit 4 and the A-40 at exit 9.

Autoroute 740
Autoroute Robert-Bourassa
Route information
Maintained by Transports Québec
Length	7.4 km[1][2] (4.6 mi)
Existed	1975[2]–present
Major junctions
South end	R-175 in Québec
Major intersections	A-440 in Québec A-40 / A-73 in Québec
North end	Boulevard Lebourgneuf in Québec
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Major cities	Québec
Highway system
Quebec provincial highways Autoroutes List Former
← A-730 → A-930

Originally named the Autoroute du Vallon for the 17th century road it replaced,^[3] in 2006, the Quebec government under then-Premier Jean Charest renamed the highway Autoroute Robert-Bourassa, in honour of a long serving former Quebec Premier.

Route description

The A-740 begins at an intersection with Route 175 (Also called Boulevard Laurier) in suburban Quebec City, tracing the western limits of Université Laval along the northbound lanes and Place Sainte-Foy (a regional shopping mall) along the southbound lanes. Once past the university, the A-740 enters a 300 m tunnel, passing under heavily travelled chemin Sainte-Foy and chemin Quatre-Bourgeois. Passing to the west of Cégep de Sainte-Foy, the A-740 approaches the interchange with the A-440 at exit 4. From here, motorists on the A-440 can travel east (which becomes Boulevard Charest) towards the city centre or west to an interchange with the A-40 and A-73, affording access to Jean Lesage International Airport and points south and west.

Continuing north, the A-740 passes to the west of an industrial park, meets Route 138 at exit 7, then crosses the Saint-Charles River to an interchange with Boulevard Père-Lelièvre at exit 8 on the north shore. The autoroute provides the eastern boundary for a municipal park before meeting the A-40/A-73 (a concurrent route) at a cloverleaf interchange. The A-740 ends shortly after the A-40/A-73 interchange, passing to the west of the Galeries de la Capitale (another regional shopping mall) to an intersection with Boulevard Lebourgneuf.

The original plans called for the A-740 to continue northward after the first section opened in 1982, and so the government preserved the autoroute's intended path. Instead, in 2006, an urban boulevard (Boulevard Robert-Bourassa) was opened on this right of way, running for 4.5 km (2.8 mi) from the northern terminus of the A-740 to Route 369 (Boulevard Bastien).^[4] This new route was intended to provide an alternative to the heavily travelled Boulevard St. Jacques (which it parallels).

Exit list

The entire route is located in Quebec City, Québec TE. 

km[5]	mi	Exit	Destinations	Notes
0.0	0.0	–	Boulevard Laurier (R-175)	At-grade intersection; A-740 southern terminus
0.4	0.25	–	Boulevard Hachelaga	At-grade intersection
0.8	0.50	2	Université Laval
1.3	0.81	3	Chemin des Quatre-Bourgeois / Chemin Sainte-Foy	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
1.3– 1.5	0.81– 0.93	Robert Bourassa Tunnel
1.5	0.93	3	Chemin des Quatre-Bourgeois / Chemin Sainte-Foy	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
2.2– 3.4	1.4– 2.1	4-E	A-440 east (Boulevard Charest) / Boulevard du Versant – Québec Centre-Ville	A-440 exit 15
		4-O	A-440 west (Autoroute Charest) to A-40 west – Aéroport Jean-Lesage, Pont Pierre-Laporte
			Rue Cyrille-Duquet	Northbound exit
		6	Rue Jacard / Rue Léon-Harmel / Rue Cyrille-Duquet	Southbound exit
4.2	2.6	7	Boulevard Wilfred-Hamel (R-138)
4.8	3.0	8	Boulevard Pére Leliévre
6.3	3.9	9	A-40 / A-73 – Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Saguenay, Montréal, Pont Pierre-Laporte, Aéroport Jean-Lesage	Signed as exits 9-E (east) and 9-O (west); A-40 / A-73 exit 310
7.4	4.6	–	Boulevard Lebourgneuf	At-grade intersection; A-740 northern terminus; becomes Boulevard Robert-Bourassa
9.7	6.0	–	Avenue Chauveau (R-358)	At-grade intersection
11.6	7.2	–	Boulevard Bastien (R-369) / Boulevard de la Colline	At-grade intersection; continues as Boulevard de la Colline
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Closed/former       Incomplete access