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English: Automatically generated series of street maps depicting Alberta urban communities. Municipal boundaries: AltaLIS open data accessed May 25, 2019. Road network: Statistics Canada NRN 2018. Water features, forest cover, and contour lines: Natural Resources Canada CanVec 50k series.
Cochrane (/ ˈ k ɒ k r ə n / KOK-rən) is a town in the Calgary Metropolitan Region of Alberta, Canada. The town is located 18 km (11 mi) west of the Calgary city limits along Highway 1A. Cochrane is one of the fastest-growing communities in Canada, and with a population of 32,199 in 2021, it is one of the largest towns in Alberta.
Highway 1A passed through downtown Calgary on a pair of one-way streets, with eastbound traffic following 9 Avenue S and westbound traffic following 6 Avenue S. East of 6 Street SE, both directions of Highway 1A followed 9 Avenue SE, crossing the Elbow River on the Inglewood Bridge and passing through the community of Inglewood, linking with ...
In the 1970s, the province of Alberta began upgrading a series of roads to form a north–south, all-weather highway west of Highway 2. Beginning in c. 1972, the road connecting the Trans-Canada Highway and Cochrane was designated as part of Highway 22. [6]
A review of historical Alberta Official Road Maps shows that Highway 1 was numbered Highway 2 prior to 1941 (while Highway 2 as it is known today was numbered Highway 1 prior to 1941). [2] Exit numbering along Highway 1 began in 2005.
Another former segment of Forestry Trunk Road, now the third segment of Highway 40, begins at Highway 1A to the west of Cochrane and ends 46 km (29 mi) later at an intersection with Highway 579. Highway 40 continues as the central remaining segment of Forestry Trunk Road for 27 km (17 mi) to a point 8 km (5.0 mi) prior to the Red Deer River.
Big Hill Springs Road, Veterans Boulevard: Route information; Maintained by Alberta Transportation, City of Airdrie: Length: 64.5 km (40.1 mi) Major junctions; West end: Highway 22 north of Cochrane: Highway 772 north of Calgary Highway 2 in Airdrie: East end: Highway 9 near Irricana: Location; Country: Canada: Province: Alberta
When the Calgary Ring Road alignment was established, it was determined that the West Leg and Southwest Leg would follow and area just east of 101 Street SW from Highway 1 south to Highway 8, travel east on Highway 8 to Sarcee Trail, and then resume heading south through the eastern perimeter of the Tsuutʼina Nation – as part of the ...