Manitoba Highway 14

Manitoba Highway 14 shield

Highway 14
Route information
Maintained by Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation
Length: 50.2 km (31.2 mi)
Major junctions
West end: PTH 3 near Winkler
  PTH 32
PTH 30
East end: PTH 75 (Lord Selkirk Highway)
Location
Rural
municipalities:		 Stanley, Rhineland, Montcalm
Major cities: Winkler
Highway system

Manitoba provincial highways

← PTH 13PTH 15 →

Provincial Highway 14 (also known as Highway 14 or PTH 14) by the Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation is a Regional Transportation Advisory Committee RTAC Route of Manitoba. The RTAC route is capable of handling RTAC vehicles such as a truck, a truck and pony trailer, a truck and full trailer, a truck tractor and semi-trailer, an A-train, a B-train, or a C-train.[1] PTH 14 is a 2 lane high-speed rural highway (100 km/h) and carries relatively high traffic volumes of approximately 1800 vehicles per day.[2]

The 2001 Average Annual Daily Traffic

(AADT) in the vicinity of Altona is 2380 taken north of PR 201

and 3050 AADT south of the PTH 14/PR 201 intersection.[3]

The route extends west to east from its junction with PTH 3 to its junction with PTH 75, the Lord Selkirk Highway.[4] The western terminus of PTH 14 is located at the PTH 3 turn. The westerly leg of PTH 3 continues the route of PTH 14. The eastern terminus is at the T-intersection with PTH 75, the Lord Selkirk Highway. The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) runs through Winkler, Manitoba continuing south and parallel to PTH 14 until Plum Coulee where it intersects PTH 14 and runs north and parallel to PTH 14 until Rosenfeld where the CPR diverges north.[5] The highway is twinned its junction with PTH 3 PTH 32. The twinning continues westerly to the city of Morden along PTH 3.[6]

Route description

The land is shaped by the prehistoric Lake Agassiz and there is rich agricultural land located below the Pembina Escarpment which was the shorelines of this ancient lake.[7] Winkler is a thriving city of 8,500 providing south central Manitoba with an urban shopping centre.[8] The town of Plum Coulee is located on the western flood plains of the Red River Valley. The Plum Coulee & District Museum features the area's local history.[9] In 1884, the rural municipality of Rhineland began as Douglas before changing names in 1891.[10] Horndean is a small area between Plum Coulee and Rosenfeld. The Rural Municipality of Montcalm is located in the Red River Valley and the Lord Selkirk Highway connects with three other provincial trunk highways in the R.M. The Lord Selkirk connects Pembina, North Dakota, United States with the capital city of Manitoba, Winnipeg.[10]

Prior to 1949, Highway 14 was the designation of the highway from Winnipeg to Emerson, which is now PTH 75.[11]

Junction list

DivisionLocationkm[12]miDestinationsNotes
Stanley 00 PTH 3 – Carman, Morden, Winnipeg PTH 14 begins
highway continues as PTH 3 west
cityWinkler53 PTH 32 south – Walhalla
PR 428 north – Roland
RhinelandPlum Coulee18.511.5 PR 306 – Kane, Myrtle, Rosetown
Rosenfeld33.620.9 PTH 30 south – Altona, Gretna
PR 332 north – Lowe Farm, Starbuck
Montcalm 45.528.3 PR 426 south – St. Joseph
 50.231.2 PTH 75 – Emerson, Morris, Winnipeg PTH 14 ends
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Manitoba Transportation & Government Services – Weights and Dimensions Compliance Guide". Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation. Government of Manitoba. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
  2. ↑ "M A N I T O B A ( Order No. 130/03 ) THE HIGHWAYS PROTECTION ACT ..." (PDF). Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation. Government of Manitoba. August 27, 2003. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
  3. ↑ "M A N I T O B A ( Order No. 172/03 ) THE HIGHWAYS PROTECTION ACT ...". Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation. Government of Manitoba. December 2, 2003.
  4. ↑ "Motor Carrier Enforcement Programs – RTAC Routes". Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation. Government of Manitoba. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
  5. ↑ "Official Highway Map". Government of Manitoba. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
  6. ↑ Klages, Alex (September 3, 2006). "Manitoba Highways". Archived from the original on 2008-07-20. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
  7. ↑ "Rural Municipality of Stanley, Manitoba, Canada". Retrieved 2008-03-30.
  8. ↑ "Manitoba Community Profiles - Community Profile:Winkler, Manitoba". Retrieved 2008-03-30.
  9. ↑ "Manitoba Community Profiles - Community Profile:Plum Coulee, Manitoba". Retrieved 2008-03-30.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Manitoba Community Profiles - Community Profile:Rhineland, Manitoba". Archived from the original on 2007-11-09. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
  11. ↑ "Winnipeg-Emerson Highway to become No. 75" (PDF). Government of Manitoba. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  12. ↑ Microsoft Streets and Tips (Map) (2004 ed.). Microsoft Corporation Redmond Washington.

External links

Route map: Bing