Talk:List of Quebec provincial highways

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[edit] Renumbering?

When were the highways renumbered? My guess would be about 1970, but I don't really know. Also, I thought I remember that the 100-200-300 numbers indicated the importance and/or quality of the road and not their geographical relationship to the St Lawrence River ... Anyone have answers? --N5UWY/9 - plaws

I have the 1972 Rand McNally road atlas. It has highways marked with extra numbers in red, and a note identifying these as new numbers to be taking effect over the next two years: 1973-1974. GBC 18:13, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
That sounds about right to me. I wonder if someone has a canonical source? Of course, you could add your date with the citation and hope someone corrects it.  :-) --N5UWY/9 - plaws 18:26, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 200/300

I looked at the MTQ site. Sure enough, 200/300 indicates location relative to the river and not quality of roadway. News to me.  :-) Was it always that way? --N5UWY/9 - plaws 17:26, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

As noted elsewhere, the Secondary Roads were designated to coordinate with the Primary roads and Autoroutes following Expo 67...some were previous minor provincial highways, others just secondary roads, some were former routes superceded by Autoroutes, etc. The numbering system just following the pattern in the USA of their Interstates, with the event Quebec would become an independent state....

Bacl-presby 17:50, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

You missed my point. I was certain that I'd learned (in driver ed (in 1979, just after the first big re-write of the Highway Code) that 100s were primary (after Autoroutes), 200s were secondary, and 300s were tertiary. MTQ's site now clearly says that 200 and 300 are both secondary and that the difference is geographical. --N5UWY/9 - plaws 22:42, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Naming

The MTQ always uses Route X in French, but mostly Highway X in English; it appears Route is French for Highway. As for the pre-1970s numbers, I have a scan of part of a 1935 (official?) map that includes a drawing of a shield, with Route above the number. It is labeled Numére indicateur de route and Road Marker.

So whatever we decide on, we should probably use the same convention for pre-1970s and post-1970s. This won't cause conflicts due to the numbering. But do we want to use Route (the French word, which happens to be a word in English) or Highway (the translation that MTQ uses, at least on their site)? --SPUI (T - C) 12:11, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pre-1970s routes

(mostly from a 1968 map)

12 and on seem like less-major routes, except for 17, which was numbered to match Ontario.