A75/A9 link-up at Béziers

7 September 2010 - Events - France

On 5 July, ASF (VINCI Autoroutes) inaugurated the link between the A75 and the A9 at Béziers (south of France), in the presence of Pierre Coppey, Chairman of VINCI Autoroutes, and Dominique Bussereau, French Secretary of State for Transport. Linking the A75 (La Méridienne) and A9 (La Languedocienne) motorways, this 5 km section, coming after the stretch already built by the French government between Pézenas and Béziers (18 km), means that, after 30 months of works, the A75 now provides a motorway link all the way from Clermont-Ferrand to Béziers.

General supervision of the works was supplied by the Major Projects sector of Eurovia Méditerranée’s Juvignac office, as part of a consortium led by Eurovia. The project involved widening a 3 km stretch of the A9 heading to Béziers-Est to 2x5 lanes, building the interchange, the turn-off roads towards the A75 and the platform for the new toll plaza, as well as directing the construction of the engineering structures.

Teams from the Juvignac office, co-contractor with Eiffage TP, supplied the deep and surface drainage works (the gutters were created by the extruded concrete team from Eurovia’s Perpignan office), as well as the pavements and roadway installations.