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The main Trans-Canada Highway is uniformly designated as Highway 1 across the four western provinces. The British Columbia section of Highway 1 is 1,045 km (649 mi) long, beginning in Victoria at the intersection of Douglas Street and Dallas Road (where the "Mile 0" plaque stands), and ending on the Alberta border at Kicking Horse Pass.
The Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1) runs from Victoria to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.Then, after a ferry ride to the mainland, it continues from Horseshoe Bay, through the Vancouver area, Abbotsford, Hope, Kamloops, Salmon Arm, and Revelstoke to Kicking Horse Pass on the BC/Alberta border.
The section of Highway 1 in the Lower Mainland is the second-busiest freeway in Canada, after Ontario Highway 401 in Toronto. The highway's western terminus is in the provincial capital of Victoria, where it serves as a city street and freeway in the suburbs.
The annual Victoria Day Parade also marches down the street by starting at Mayfair Shopping Centre and ending at the British Columbia Legislature. Before the construction of the Patricia Bay Highway in the late 1950s, Douglas Street extended a further 2.7 km (1.7 mi) northward, ending at the current interchange of the Pat Bay Highway and Quadra ...
A view of the Western Freeway (M8) at Nerrina looking west toward Doodts Road, Ballarat North and Invermay from the Nerrina pedestrian overpass.. Western Highway commences at the state border with South Australia as a continuation of Dukes Highway at Victoria and heads in a south-easterly direction as a two-lane, single carriageway rural highway with numerous overtaking lanes and passes ...
Westshore Motorsports Park (formerly “Western Speedway”) was a race track located just outside Victoria, British Columbia on southern Vancouver Island. It was a 4/10-mile (643 meter) paved oval track founded in 1954 and was western Canada’s oldest speedway until its closure in September 2022. [ 1 ]
The National Highway System (French: Réseau routier national) in Canada is a federal designation for a strategic transport network of highways and freeways. [1] The system includes but is not limited to the Trans-Canada Highway, [1] and currently consists of 38,098 kilometres (23,673 mi) of roadway designated under one of three classes: Core Routes, Feeder Routes, and Northern and Remote Routes.
The following is a list of toll roads.Toll roads are roads on which a toll authority collects a fee for use. This list also contains toll bridges and toll tunnels.Lists of these subsets of toll roads can be found in List of toll bridges and List of toll tunnels