Autoroute 5 services Gatineau with two more interchanges before leaving the urban area, where a grass median forms.

Autoroute 5 gradually loses its median and center divider before ending at a T-intersection, where Route 105 continues east.

[3][better source needed] Until October 2014 there had been two segments of A-5 for several years: A 2.5 km (1.6 mi) extension of the southern segment past Tulip Valley, an area of Route 105 that has been the site of multiple fatal incidents in the past, was opened on 4 December 2009 following a $27 million (CA$) extension project.

[5][6] Another $115 million 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) project began in 2010 to connect the south and north segments, completing the carriageway to Wakefield in October 2014.

[5][7][8] Beginning in June 2008, the MTQ began replacing the concrete surface from Ottawa to Saint-Joseph Boulevard with asphalt after multiple incidents in which pieces of concrete broke out from the surface including one that struck the windshield of a vehicle, killing its driver in November 2007.