[milomilo]

Cyclists can ride on any highway in Alberta, as can any vehicle for that matter. Any vehicle you like, any speed, any lane, doesn't matter, the laws for a single lane rural road are the same as a 10 lane freeway. The exception being that a few roads have city bylaws, such as Deerfoot which bans cyclists.

201 and 216 are the only roads in Alberta that were built from the ground up to be 'freeways' so they are well built and have all the features of a modern freeway (though I think Stoney had lights on it still 6 years ago). But they are not really referred to as such by the government and have no special status. And all of the rest of our major routes were upgraded piecemeal from smaller roads and all have varying degrees of imperfection where they stray from the 'freeway' standard. Highway 2 between Calgary and Edmonton, for example, is mostly good but still has some at grade crossings meaning it cannot be described as a freeway.