Meanwhile in Alsace a much-heralded Strasbourg bypass, the A355, has been opened, just 60 years after it was first mooted. It's the first entirely Alsacien autoroute ever to have a péage on it*. To ensure that a sufficiently large number of unsuspecting tourists etc. fall for it, signage as you travel south has been changed, and the péage-free A35 that has always led, and still leads, into Strasbourg, no longer bears any mention of the fact, carrying only the name of a northern suburb thereof and the names of several towns in Germany that you can branch off to. The route via the péage is 18 km longer than the old one.
*There are péages to leave the A4, the Autoroute de l'Est, but that's because it comes all the way from Paris.
