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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).
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.
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.
East of 104 Street (Calgary Trail) the roadway goes under the name of 63 Avenue, dividing between residential and industrial areas. East of 86 Street, the roadway travels southwest to northeast and becomes Argyll Road, crossed by the Valley Line LRT at 83 Street, ending at the Sherwood Park Freeway .
Continuing eastward, access is provided through interchanges at 178 Street, 170 Street, 159 Street, 149 Street (limited access), Fox Drive, 53 Avenue, Terwillegar Drive, 119/122 Street, (Frontage road begins) 111 Street, Calgary Trail/Gateway Boulevard (Highway 2), 99 Street (Frontage road ends), 91 Street, 66/75 Street, 50 Street, 34 Street ...
The roadway was originally the core of the city of Strathcona and was the division between the north and south quadrants, and Main Street, now 104 Street (Calgary Trail) was the division between the west and east quadrants. [3] In 1912, Edmonton and Strathcona amalgamated, and Edmonton adopted its present numbering system.
Cowboy Trail (Waterton Lakes N.P – Pincher Station) 1926: current Highway 7: 26: 16 Highway 22 in Black Diamond: Highway 2 / Highway 547 at Aldersyde — — Highway 8: 31: 19 Highway 22 north of Redwood Meadows: Highway 2 in Calgary Glenmore Trail — — 9 km (5.6 mi) section in Calgary between Stoney Trail on the west and east sides ...