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Two kilometres (1.2 mi) west of the intersection is BC Hwy 97, where BC Hwy 97 north is the start of the Alaska Highway while BC Hwy 97 south is named the John Hart Highway. BC Hwy 49, also known as the Spirit River Highway, travels for 15 km (9 mi) before reaching the Alberta border.
The portion of the Alaska Highway in Alaska was planned to become part of the United States Numbered Highway System and to be signed as part of U.S. Route 97 (US 97). In 1953, the British Columbia government renumbered a series of highways to Highway 97 between the U.S. border at Osoyoos, US 97's northern terminus, and Dawson Creek.
The Alberta Provincial Highway Network consists of all the roads, bridges and interchanges in Alberta that are maintained by the Ministry of Transportation and Economic Corridors (TEC). This network includes over 64,000 lane kilometres of roads (equivalent to 31,400 kilometres), and over 4,800 bridges and interchanges. [ 2 ]
Highway 43X is the temporary designation of future realignments of Highway 43 in northwest Alberta – one was a partially constructed northwest bypass around Grande Prairie, and the other will act as a south bypass around Whitecourt once constructed in the future. [2]
Highway 3 between Fort Macleod and Lethbridge is a part of a north–south trade corridor in Alberta that connects Alaska to Mexico. Alberta continues work to upgrade the entire corridor to a divided highway. A bypass of Blairmore was completed in October 1983 after more than a year of construction. [65]
The CANAMEX corridor is defined by the numbered highway designations along its length: Canada. British Columbia. Highway 97 (Alaska Highway) Highway 2 – Dawson Creek to Alberta border; Alberta [3] Highway 43 – British Columbia border to Highway 16; Highway 16 – to Edmonton; Highway 216 through Edmonton; Highway 2 – Edmonton to Fort Macleod
Sterling Highway. Alaska's climate and geography provide significant challenges to building and maintaining roads. Mountain ranges, permafrost, long distances between small population centers, and the cost of transporting materials all add to the costs and challenges of Alaska's road system. Many of the northern highways have tighter weight ...
Many settlements in Alaska are disconnected from the continental road network except by ferry or boat, including the capital Juneau, Sitka, Kodiak, Bethel, Nome, and Utqiaġvik. [4] The Dalton Highway connects the mainland via Fairbanks with the otherwise remote Prudhoe Bay, Alaska on the North Slope as a service road for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.