Editing Cambrai (section)

===Road===
[[File:French A26 motorway.jpg|thumb|right|The A26 autoroute at its intersection with the A2, near Cambrai]]

Cambrai is located at the crossroads of two French autoroutes, the [[A2 autoroute (France)|A2]] from [[Combles]] (junction with the [[A1 autoroute (France)|A1]] coming from Paris) to the Franco-Belgian border, opened in 1973, and the [[A26 autoroute|A26]] from [[Calais]] to [[Troyes]], opened in 1992. These autoroutes partly merge with the [[International E-road network|European roads]] of the [[European route E19|E19]] from [[Amsterdam]] to [[Paris]] via [[Brussels]], for the A2, and the [[European route E17|E17]] from [[Antwerp]] to [[Beaune]] via [[Lille]] and [[Reims]], for the A26.

Cambrai and its region are served by four autoroute interchanges: The A2, exit 14 (Cambrai) from [[Paris]] and exit 15 ([[Bouchain]]) from [[Brussels]], and on the A26 the exits 8 ([[Marquion]]) from [[Calais]] and 9 ([[Masnières]]) from [[Reims]].

Cambrai is also at the crossroads of the [[Route nationale 30]] of [[Bapaume]] to [[Quiévrain]] (Franco-Belgian border), [[Route nationale 43]] of [[Sainte-Ruffine]] ([[Metz]]) to [[Calais]], {{Interlanguage link multi|Route nationale 44|fr|3=Route nationale 44 (France)}} of Cambrai to [[Vitry-le-François|Vitry]] (these last three have since 2006 been downgraded to {{Interlanguage link multi|French departmental road network|fr|3=Réseau routier départemental français|lt=departmental roads}} and therefore consequently renamed to D6xx), and D939 (former {{Interlanguage link multi|Route nationale 39|fr|3=Route nationale 39 (France)}}) of Cambrai to [[Arras]].

To facilitate access to the east of the [[Cambrésis]] from the A2 and A26 autoroutes, to alleviate traffic in the crossing of the city and to serve the future Niergnies business zone, a southern bypass was the subject of a [[Déclaration d'utilité publique|declaration of public utility]] (DPU) on 22 April 1999. Its route has been repeatedly modified and challenged, because it crosses the urban ecological park of the {{Interlanguage link multi|Regional Natural Reserve of the River Escaut|fr|3=Réserve naturelle régionale de l'Escaut-rivière|lt=Chenu Wood}} in [[Proville]],<ref>
{{cite web| url = http://www.proville-en-cambresis.com/html/fr/presentation/popup-environnement/bois-chenu2.htm| title = Le Bois chenu, un parc écologique urbain reconnu| work = la ville de Proville-en-Cambrésis| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090424065232/http://www.proville-en-cambresis.com/html/fr/presentation/popup-environnement/bois-chenu2.htm| archive-date = 2009-04-24}}</ref> the only public natural green space of the Cambrésis. The bypass is in service since 17 September 2010.<ref name="VdNContSud">{{cite web| url = http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/Locales/Cambrai/actualite/Cambrai/2010./09/18/article_d-est-en-ouest-le-contournement-sud-de-c.shtml| title = D'est en ouest, le contournement sud de Cambrai est enfin ouvert| date = 18 September 2010| work = [[La Voix du Nord (daily)|La Voix du Nord]]}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

A bypass to the north is also part of the program of major departmental projects, which was required to have been initiated by 2011.<ref name="VdNContSud"/>