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Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue
I also wonder if SK should have a freeway to the US border like every other province does (getting it to U.S. Route 2, which has 4 lanes, will be good enough).
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The US has a long-term plan to build a divided (if not limited-access) highway from Rapid City to Raymond, MT and the Raymond/Regway border crossing. It would go north on existing US 85 to Williston, west on existing US 2, and north on Montana 16 to the Saskatchewan border. Here's the website for the group responsible for the project:
https://www.trexpressway.com/
However, it seems the project has lost some momentum. Who knows if or when it will happen.
Interestingly, the group has chosen to route through Plentywood to Saskatchewan highway 6, whereas the Saskatchewan government has decided to put preference on Saskatchewan highway 39 at Portal, ND/North Portal, SK.
One other problem: until the US builds these highways, there is no divided-highway route to US 2. The nearest connection to 2 is at Culbertson, via Montana 16. Even once you get to US 2, it's only divided once you hit the North Dakota border. For almost all of its Montana length, it's just a two-lane highway. The only four-lane highways crossing Montana are Interstates 90 and 94. (94 is the one that continues into North Dakota; 90 veers south into Wyoming, then east into South Dakota.)
So... I think this project is a long ways away. And as a person who regularly travels SK 6 to Montana and drives stretches of MT 16 frequently too, I can tell you that this is a quiet route, at least until you get to Sidney, MT. (The stretch south to Glendive, MT and I-94 is on the busy side.) I think I read somewhere that Raymond, MT/Regway, SK (the SK 6/MT 16 border crossing) is the quietest 24-hour crossing in the United States.
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). The City has plans to deal with the railway crossing.
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