Alberta Highway 9

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Alberta Highway 9 is a highway in the Canadian province of Alberta. The highway starts at the Trans-Canada Highway, about midway between Calgary and Strathmore and proceeds in a more-or-less easterly direction to the Saskatchewan border, where it becomes Saskatchewan Highway 7.

Highway 9 is the primary connector between Calgary and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (the terminus of Sask. Highway 7), as well as to numerous bedroom communities of Calgary, such as Irricana and Beiseker. The major centres along Highway 9 are Drumheller and Hanna.

Over the past few years, the province of Alberta has executed a number of upgrades to the highway, widing shoulders and realigning the road (most recently just west of Drumheller, although the new alignment now bypasses the Horseshoe Canyon landmark as a result). As of 2006, however, the province has yet to twin any stretch of the busy highway, and there have been calls for interchanges to be built at its junctions with Highway 21 and the Trans-Canada due to the number of fatal automobile accidents that have happened that these locations over the years.

[edit] See also

• List of Alberta provincial highways