Anthony Henday Drive

Highway 216
Anthony Henday Drive
Route information
Maintained by Alberta Transportation
Length: 69 km[1] (43 mi)
Planned: 78 km (48 mi)
Major junctions
Beltway around Edmonton
  Hwy 2
Hwy 16A
Hwy 16
Hwy 28
Hwy 15
Hwy 100
Hwy 14
Location
Municipalities: Strathcona County
Major cities: Edmonton, St. Albert, Sherwood Park
Highway system

Provincial highways in Alberta

← Hwy 201 Hwy 1 →

Anthony Henday Drive, designated Alberta Provincial Highway No. 216 by Alberta Transportation,[2] is a ring road highway around Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is currently under construction and named after Alberta explorer Anthony Henday.

Nearly 90% of the road is completed and in use. It starts in east Edmonton at Yellowhead Trail (Highway 16) and travels south to Highway 14, then west past Gateway Boulevard / Calgary Trail (Highway 2) and across the North Saskatchewan River to the Cameron Heights neighbourhood, then north past Whitemud Drive, Stony Plain Road and Yellowhead Trail to Ray Gibbon Drive, and then east past St. Albert Trail and 97 Street to currently end at Manning Drive. The highway designation 216, denotes its bypass linkages to the two major crossroads of Edmonton, Highway 2 and Highway 16. A similar ring road, Highway 201, is also being constructed around the City of Calgary.

The free-flowing northwest leg of Anthony Henday Drive from Yellowhead Trail in the west to Manning Drive in the northeast opened on November 1, 2011.[1] An estimated 40,000 motorists use Anthony Henday Drive daily.[3] Upon completion in 2016, Anthony Henday Drive will be the first free-flowing orbital road in Canada.

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History and past construction

The eastern leg from Yellowhead Trail to Highway 14 was already an existing highway for several decades - this was formerly known as Highway 14X.

The Alberta provincial government developed the ring road plan during the 1970s and purchased the land for this purpose. This encircling land became known as the Transportation and Utility Corridor, ("utilities" being both overhead high-voltage transmission lines, and underground gas and oil pipelines), TUC for short on engineering drawings.

The western leg from Yellowhead Trail to Whitemud Drive was constructed by the City of Edmonton during the 1990s, prior to the province taking over responsibility of the project. The 87 Avenue and Whitemud Drive interchanges were built, and the southwestern leg from Whitemud Drive to Calgary Trail / Gateway Boulevard was completed by October 2006.[4] This section was the highest priority for construction due to its CANAMEX designation, providing a link between Highway 2 south and Highway 16 west. It became entirely free-flowing on November 2, 2011. The total distance of the southwestern leg from Yellowhead Trail to Gateway Boulevard is 24 km (15 mi).

Construction of the 11 km (6.8 mi) southeastern section from Calgary Trail / Gateway Boulevard to Highway 14 began in April 2005 and was completed in October 2007. The southeastern section was built through a public-private partnership (P3 — also known as a design-build-operate project), in which Access Roads won the contract for $493 million to build the road and maintain it for 30 years.[5]

On the northern section of Anthony Henday Drive, construction of the interim segment from Highway 16 in the west to 137 Avenue was partially completed as part of St. Albert's West Regional Road (Ray Gibbon Drive) project. Construction of the entire 21 km (13 mi) northwest leg from Yellowhead Trail to Manning Drive (Highway 15) was started in 2008 through the signing of a P3 agreement. This leg opened to traffic on November 1, 2011.[1]

Current and future construction

The remaining 9 km (5.6 mi) section in the northeast, from Manning Drive to the Yellowhead Highway in east Edmonton, is slated to begin construction in 2012, and targeted for completion by 2016. This final section of the ring road includes a crossing over the North Saskatchewan River, as well as improvements to an existing 9 km (5.6 mi) segment between Yellowhead Trail and Whitemud Drive.[6]

Also under construction is the interchange at Cameron Heights Drive. Construction commenced in summer 2010 and is scheduled for completion by fall 2011.[7] Upgrades to the Whitemud and 87 Avenue / Webber Greens Drive interchanges are also currently underway.

Interchanges and intersections

Eventually the entire route will have freeway status, which means grade separation at all crossings to allow free-flow traffic. This is a list of all the intersections (completed and planned) starting at the southern Highway 2 crossing, heading clockwise.

Hwy Exit km Intersecting road Current intersection type Proposed intersection Coordinates
78A 0 Calgary Trail (Highway 2) Stack interchange
78B ‎Gateway Boulevard (Highway 2)
2 2 111 Street SW/NW Folded diamond interchange
4 127 Street SW / 119 Street NW At-grade (no crossover) Diamond interchange
6 Rabbit Hill Road Partial cloverleaf interchange
8 Terwillegar Drive Diamond interchange Cloverstack[8]
12 12 184 Street (to Highway 627) / Cameron Heights Drive Folded diamond interchange
14 14 Lessard Road Partial cloverleaf interchange
16 16 Callingwood Road / 62 Avenue Folded diamond interchange

18A 18 Whitemud Drive Partial cloverleaf interchange Cloverstack[9]
18B Whitemud Drive (to Highway 628)
19 19 Webber Greens Drive / 87 Avenue Partial cloverleaf interchange
21 21 Stony Plain Road (Highway 16A) / 100 Avenue Cloverstack
23 22 109 Avenue At-grade (southbound only) Partial cloverleaf interchange[9]
111 Avenue At-grade (northbound only)
25 25 Yellowhead Trail (Highway 16) Cloverstack
27 27 Ray Gibbon Drive / 184 Street Partial cloverleaf interchange Cloverstack
— 28 LeClair Way / 137 Avenue Overpass Partial cloverleaf interchange[10]
— 30 Gervais Road / 170 Street Underpass
31 31 St. Albert Trail (Mark Messier Trail, Highway 2) Partial cloverleaf interchange
33 33 Campbell Road Diamond interchange
— 34 Veness Road / 142 Street Overpass
35 35 Range Road 250 / 127 Street Partial cloverleaf interchange
— 37 112 Street none Underpass
39 39 97 Street (Highway 28) Partial cloverleaf interchange
— 41 82 Street Underpass
43 43 66 Street Partial cloverleaf interchange
— 44 50 Street none Partial cloverleaf interchange[10]
46 46 Manning Drive (Highway 15) Trumpet interchange Stack interchange
— 47 Fort Road none Underpass[11]
— 48 18 Street NW / Victoria Trail none Overpass
50 153 Avenue NE/NW none Partial cloverleaf interchange[12]
53 130 Avenue NE/NW none Partial cloverleaf interchange[12]
— 54 118A Avenue NE / Hayter Road NW none Overpass
55 Yellowhead Trail (Highway 16) Partial cloverleaf interchange Stack interchange
— 56 Petroleum Way Overpass[11]
58 Baseline Road / 101 Avenue Partial cloverleaf interchange
61 Wye Road (Highway 630) / Sherwood Park Freeway (Highway 100) Cloverleaf interchange Cloverstack
62 Meridian (1) Street At-grade (southbound only)

64 Highway 628 (Township Road 522) / Whitemud Drive (Highway 14) Cloverleaf interchange Cloverstack
— 66 34 Avenue Underpass
66 67 Highway 14 Directional T interchange
68 70 17 Street SW/NW Partial cloverleaf interchange
— 72 34 Street SW/NW Underpass
73 73 50 Street SW/NW (to Highway 814) Partial cloverleaf interchange
— 75 66 Street SW/NW Underpass
76 76 91 Street SW/NW Partial cloverleaf interchange
— 77 Parsons Road SW/NW Overpass
78A 78 Calgary Trail (Highway 2) Stack interchange
78B ‎Gateway Boulevard (Highway 2)

1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
     Open •      Unopened (construction starts 2012)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Open road beckons drivers in northwest Edmonton". Government of Alberta. November 1, 2011. http://alberta.ca/home/NewsFrame.cfm?ReleaseID=/acn/201111/31460601616BE-98B3-C30F-0E83C7914578B71B.html. Retrieved November 1, 2011. 
  2. ^ Provincial Highways Designation Order, Alberta Transportation, p. 10 
  3. ^ Jessica Earle (October 11, 2011). "Henday will be done by Nov 1: Province". ctvedmonton.ca. http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20111011/EDm_henday_111011/20111011/?hub=EdmontonHome. Retrieved October 18, 2011. 
  4. ^ "Drivers caught in traffic as bridge work continues". CBC News. October 12, 2006. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2006/10/12/delays-eddrivers.html. Retrieved August 27, 2010. 
  5. ^ "Access Roads Edmonton". http://www.accessroadsedmonton.ca. Retrieved December 27, 2011. 
  6. ^ Sinnema, Jodie (March 2, 2011). "Final leg of Anthony Henday Drive gets green light". Edmonton Journal. canada.com. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Final+Anthony+Henday+Drive+gets+green+light/4371845/story.html. Retrieved March 2, 2011. 
  7. ^ Brenton Driedger (March 24, 2010). "Henday says good-bye to traffic lights". iNews 880. http://www.inews880.com/Channels/Reg/LocalNews/story.aspx?ID=1210423. Retrieved March 25, 2010. 
  8. ^ ISL Engineering / Al-Terra Engineering (March 2010). "170 Street". Concept Planning Study. City of Edmonton. http://www.edmonton.ca/transportation/170_Street_Planning_Study_Maps_2011.pdf. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  9. ^ a b "Stoney Plain Road Long Term Planning Study". Al-Terra Engineering. http://www.al-terra.com/images/Projects/5124/LongTerm.pdf. Retrieved December 27, 2011. 
  10. ^ a b "Schedule 18, Appendix A – Drawings Issued for Agreement". Alberta Transportation. http://www.transportation.alberta.ca/Content/docType353/Production/NWASch18AppADrawings.pdf. Retrieved October 20, 2011. 
  11. ^ a b "Stelmach makes Henday announcement". iNews 880. March 2, 2011. http://www.inews880.com/Channels/Reg/LocalNews/story.aspx?ID=1373150. Retrieved March 2, 2011. 
  12. ^ a b "Northeast Edmonton Ring Road – Ultimate Plan Profile (2.5 Million Regional Population)". Government of Alberta. June 2009. http://www.transportation.alberta.ca/Content/docType353/production/combined_plan_prof_ultimate.pdf. Retrieved October 18, 2011. 

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