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A507 autoroute

road in France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ2872916 ↗
Source-derived summary

A507, also called 2ème rocade de Marseille, is a French autoroute that connects in Marseille from the freeway A50, in the east of the city to the northeast on the D4 road.

The first section between Frais Vallon and A50 was opened on 29 November 2016, while the second and final section was opened in October 2018.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, A507, autoroute and road is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “A507 autoroute” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.