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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 ]
Alberta Provincial Highway No. 27, commonly referred to as Highway 27, is a 151-kilometre (94 mi) east-west highway in central Alberta, Canada. It extends from Highway 22 in Sundre , through Olds along 46 Street, and intersects Highway 2 6 km (3.7 mi) east of Olds. [ 1 ]
Google Trike in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, August 23, 2012. On March 19, 2013, the Nunavut city of Iqaluit was imaged. Rather than shipping a car or using a trike, the city was imaged using backpack-mounted cameras for three days. One of the people involved, Chris Kalluk, was responsible for Google mapping Cambridge Bay, his home town. [6]
A significant portion of Highway 15 between Fort Saskatchewan and Edmonton is currently only two lanes. This has caused headaches for local commuters; more than 23,000 vehicles cross the bridge between Sturgeon County and Fort Saskatchewan daily (a 50% increase since 2009), and there have also been several fatal collisions in recent years. [4]
It is the primary route between the Edmonton area and the Lesser Slave Lake region. The stretch between Highway 16 and Westlock was formerly Secondary Highway 794, but due to a large increase in traffic it was upgraded to Highway 44 in 1999. [2] Highway 44 is approximately 172 kilometres (107 mi) long. [1]
Alberta's 1 to 216 series of provincial highways are Alberta's main highways. They are numbered from 1 to 100, with the exception of the ring roads around Calgary and Edmonton, which are numbered 201 and 216 respectively. The numbers applied to these highways are derived from compounding the assigned numbers of the core north–south and east ...
Much of Highway 2 is a core route in the National Highway System of Canada: between Fort Macleod and Edmonton and between Donnelly and Grimshaw. The speed limit along most parts of the highway between Fort Macleod and Morinville is 110 km/h (68 mph), and in urban areas, such as through Claresholm, Nanton, Calgary and Edmonton, it ranges from 50 km/h (31 mph) to 110 km/h (68 mph).
Until 2013, traffic levels had steadily increased on Highway 63, and an increasing number of trucks carrying large equipment caused traffic delays. Such loads often are wide enough to occupy two traffic lanes which impedes traffic in both directions, and as a result motorists have shared notice of super-wide loads on social media so that others ...