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The term "Alberta Provincial Highway" is redundant and differs not a bit from "Alberta Highway." I'd like to see this changed to "Alberta Highway 1" and the rest of the primary highways named likewise. The secondary highways, of course, should simply be "Alberta Secondary Highway 701" or whatever the number.
Cadillac22:38, 7 January 2006 (UTC)reply
As stated by Canadian law, highways are the responsability of provincial governments. All highways in Canada are administered by the provinces (hence, for example, the inconsistent highway number for TCH in provinces like Ontario and Quebec). The Trans-Canada highway is rather a interprovincial coordination. --
Qyd17:42, 3 November 2006 (UTC)reply
But US interstates are also maintained by states they pass through, but nobody calls them "state" highways in each separate state. In Ontario and Quebec I would call the THC provincial highways due to the use of their own numbers/signs, but Alberta shares a common number and federal sign with its adjacent provinces.
70.24.71.15405:39, 19 November 2006 (UTC)A.L.reply
I can see your point. But calling it "federal highway" would be a factual error, and "Alberta interprovincial highway" sounds like an oxymoron. The correct term would be "Trans-Canada Highway", and well, there is an article on that topic. This one just details a particular leg in a particular province, so I guess it's best to just stick to naming conventions. Cheers. --
66.82.9.4914:54, 19 November 2006 (UTC)reply
Not sure if it really matters but the Alberta government does Kilometre 0 from the BC border, not the Saskatchewan border. Basically if you want to be consistent with what they do, you should flip it around. For example the first westbound exit in Calgary on Highway 1 is 177.
MazriM TaiM (
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17:46, 5 December 2007 (UTC)reply
This is well noted, but conflicts with the "federal" notion that the TCH travels from east to west. Thus, while highway exit numbers (which are only established from Canmore to Calgary) are west to east, kilometre marks are from east to west.
kelvSYC (
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04:30, 8 January 2009 (UTC)reply
Notwithstanding the "federal" notion, east to west is contrary to
WP:RJL and
WP:CRWP. This article is about Alberta Provincial Highway No. 1, which happens to form part of the Trans-Canada Highway. It is not about the Trans-Canada Highway 1 as a whole. The "Exit numbers" and "Major junctions" sections are redundant and the latter is contrary to
WP:RJL and
WP:CRWP. It is on my to-do list to merge these two sections together using the west to east progression. It may be satisfactory to use east to west on a future "Major junctions" section on the overall
Trans-Canada Highway article based on the "federal" notion despite
WP:RJL and
WP:CRWP. It would be well worth a discussion at either of those locations to confirm.
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06:40, 13 February 2011 (UTC)reply
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I have changed the length of this highway from 522 to 543 534. This length is derived by summing distance in kilometres of the various segments of the highway from Hwy 93 near Lake Louise to Saskatchewan per the 2010 Alberta Official Road Map (536 527 km) and adding the final 6.8 km from the BC border to Hwy 93 using Google Earth. This may necessitate changes to later sections of the article, which I intend to revisit soon anyway.
Hwy43 (
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06:21, 13 February 2011 (UTC)reply