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Calgary Trail and Gateway Boulevard enter Edmonton from the south along Highway 2, the city's busiest entrance. [3] It is a core route of Canada's National Highway System, and part of the North-South Trade Corridor.
Highway 14 begins in south Edmonton as a freeway named Whitemud Drive at the Calgary Trail / Gateway Boulevard interchange, linking to Highway 2. [3] It travels east for 9 km (5.6 mi) along Whitemud Drive through neighbourhoods of southeast Edmonton until reaching the Anthony Henday Drive ring road, with which it is concurrent for 2 km (1.2 mi).
Calgary Trail (known as 104 Street north of 54 Avenue) and Gateway Boulevard (formerly named 103 Street north of 54 Avenue) are a pair of major arterial roadways in Edmonton; Gateway Boulevard carries northbound traffic while Calgary Trail carries southbound traffic.
Henday features two three-level interchanges; the one at Calgary Trail / Gateway Boulevard was the first three-level interchange to be constructed in Alberta. [24] Several of the bridges in this interchange use a "Trellis Beam" concept in which many perpendicular girders are used to carry the upper roadway at a high degree of skew.
In September 2011, construction completed of an interchange at the intersection with Calgary Trail & Gateway Boulevard ; considered Edmonton's busiest intersection. [2] Because Edmonton has adapted a quadrant system, the suffix NW is sometimes added to addresses, to avoid confusion with addresses south of Quadrant (1) Avenue.
The portion in southeast Edmonton from Anthony Henday Drive to Calgary Trail / Gateway Boulevard is designated as Highway 14, and from there until Anthony Henday Drive in west Edmonton is designated as Highway 2. [2] The portion of Whitemud Drive from 170 Street and 75 Street forms part of the Edmonton inner ring road.
In a clockwise direction, the 78 km (48 mi) of free-flowing road spans from the Yellowhead Trail (Highway 16)/Meridian Street in the east to Manning Drive Highway 15 in the northeast. The southeast leg from Calgary Trail/Gateway Boulevard to Highway 14 opened on October 23, 2007. [3]
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).