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Route 2 is a major provincial highway in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, carrying the main route of the Trans-Canada Highway in the province. The highway connects with Autoroute 85 at the border with Quebec, Highway 104 at the border with Nova Scotia, as well as with traffic from Interstate 95 in the U.S. state of Maine via the short Route 95 connector.
Gunningsville Bridge and approaches, Moncton to Riverview (2.2 km) Palmer Brook Connector (1.6 km): Connector from Route 100 to Route 1 east of Quispamsis , and former alignment of Route 1. Prospect Street Extension , Fredericton (2.7 km): A former alignment of Route 2 from Hanwell Road ( Route 640 ) to Woodstock Road ( Route 102 ).
Until 1965, New Brunswick highways were numbered consecutively from 1 to 42. A massive renumbering led to the current three-tier system. Some changes have taken place to highway numbering since then, and the following numbers are no longer used: Route 2A—2 sections:
The highway has a speed limit of 110 km/h (68 mph) [13] on most of its sections in New Brunswick. New Brunswick was the first province where the main route of the Trans-Canada Highway was made entirely into a four-lane limited-access divided highway. From Moncton, the highway continues southeast for 54 km (34 mi) to a junction at Aulac close to ...
The design-build-operate model was used again for the Longs Creek-Edmundston section of Route 2, as well as for the entirety of Route 95, which opened in 2008 and will be operated and maintained for a period of 25 years by the builder. A third design-build-operate project has been undertaken for Route 1. New Brunswick Highway Corporation
A-85 begins at the Quebec-New Brunswick border as the continuation of New Brunswick Route 2 and the Trans-Canada Highway. In 2010, the Quebec government announced that A-85 would be named for Claude Béchard, a longtime Member of the National Assembly from Bas-Saint-Laurent.
The Trans-Canada Highway (as it is now known) ran straight through the town until a bypass was built in 1962. The provincial border at the Missaguash River bridge is the dividing line between Nova Scotia Highway 104-Nova Scotia Trunk 2 and New Brunswick Highway 2. This highway forms one of the two main surface transportation links between the ...
The image shows the wide median that the Province of New Brunswick generally employs on its divided highways. This portion of highway was completed about 1970. Route 15 only extended from Shediac to Strait Shores until the early 1970s, when the Shediac Four-Lane Highway (the first rural expressway in New Brunswick) was built from Dieppe to Shediac.