Highways in Canada

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by Airboy

14 days is pushing it a bit.

But your choice of highway 40 through Alberta is good. The swing up Highway 93 through Banff to Jasper before hitting Highway 40 is a good choice.

Book your camp grounds as early as you can. The mountain section in Albert tends to sell out.

As for North to Yukon, should be clear sailing anytime. There are some long sections but some nice spots to stop along the route up to Whitehorse.

As for you American section. The wife and I did it a few years back. the Wyoming section can be quite boring. But Devils tower ad mount Rushmore are worth the stops. Also hit up the Geronimo carving. We also stopped at Little Big Horn and Wall drugs.

Try to plan and Get to Skagway on a day the Cruise ships are not in. Usually a Sunday.

Thanks for the tips. Skagway is not a necessity just a want to say we hit Alaska. Also a few days we will push through the night and take shifts so we can spend a bit more time in interesting locations. And thanks, I will alter the route slightly south to check out Chief crazy Horse.

[Airboy]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Thanks for the tips. Skagway is not a necessity just a want to say we hit Alaska. Also a few days we will push through the night and take shifts so we can spend a bit more time in interesting locations. And thanks, I will alter the route slightly south to check out Chief crazy Horse.

Wyoming Drive fast through that and the Dakotas.

As side trip to Haines Junction is worth it. You are on the perimeter of some of the tallest mountains on the continent.

[Bellinghamgreg]

Wyoming can have some boring sections but I lived there for a couple of years and can vouch that there are some great/ scenic drives as well.

Just rode highway 3 from Creston to Hope last week on our motorcycles - absolutely beautiful drive with little traffic...my buddies from Bellingham loved it.

[Denscity]

Originally Posted by Bellinghamgreg

Wyoming can have some boring sections but I lived there for a couple of years and can vouch that there are some great/ scenic drives as well.

Just rode highway 3 from Creston to Hope last week on our motorcycles - absolutely beautiful drive with little traffic...my buddies from Bellingham loved it.

I live along that highway ya it's a beauty drive!

[Bellinghamgreg]

Originally Posted by Denscity

I live along that highway ya it's a beauty drive!

Next time it will be highway 6 - Creston to Nelson and onward to Vernon...doubt I can go wrong with that route either.

[Denscity]

Ya highway 6 is nice n curvy once you cross Arriw Lakes.

[SignalHillHiker]

Driving out Roaches Line yesterday...

TCH:





Roaches Line...







Driving back into St. John's this morning...

TCH:





Exit onto Pitts Memorial. Paradise on the left, Mount Pearl on the right:



Pitts Memorial around Mount Pearl. It's technically St. John's on the right side but there's nothing out there other than Goulds, Galway, Southlands, and Kilbride...







Rounding the corner now to head pretty much straight north into St. John's proper.











Entering downtown...

[Dengler Avenue]

A petition about Newfoundland’s highway is gaining traction.

https://apple.news/AoJoNQuX8QFu7hjHBWpfXEQ

[wave46]

That highway through St. John's' downtown feels so out of place.

You expect a city like Toronto or Montreal to have something like that, not there.

[SignalHillHiker]

It doesn't really go through, just to.

But that's only these days, of course. It destroyed a big chunk of the Downtown West End. Basically everything in this photo except the church and a couple of other half-blocks of stone buildings:

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

And one from those rarely-photographed in-between periods. The Central Slum (surrounding photographer) is already gone, but the Downtown West End (buildings at centre) still exist. Almost all of them were later demolished for highway off-ramps.

[wave46]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

It doesn't really go through, just to.

But that's only these days, of course. It destroyed a big chunk of the Downtown West End. Basically everything in this photo except the church and a couple of other half-blocks of stone buildings:

The last couple of pics where it sort of passes over the Newfoundland Railway Station, the houses down below and the towers in the background reminds me of being on the Gardiner Expressway - it just gives the vibe of a much bigger city.

I'm not sure if the cost of the loss of neighbourhoods was worth it, but it's just a quick impression I get from it.

[VANRIDERFAN]

Originally Posted by Bellinghamgreg

Wyoming can have some boring sections but I lived there for a couple of years and can vouch that there are some great/ scenic drives as well.

Just rode highway 3 from Creston to Hope last week on our motorcycles - absolutely beautiful drive with little traffic...my buddies from Bellingham loved it.

The highway from Casper to the East Gate of Yellowstone is interesting.

[Corndogger]

Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue

A petition about Newfoundland’s highway is gaining traction.

https://apple.news/AoJoNQuX8QFu7hjHBWpfXEQ

Contractors don't have the ability to put in rumble strips? That seems like a pretty basic safety feature to me.

[Corndogger]

Originally Posted by wave46

That highway through St. John's' downtown feels so out of place.

You expect a city like Toronto or Montreal to have something like that, not there.

Nothing special looking about that highway other than it looks like it's about to fall down.

[GreaterMontréal]

Originally Posted by wave46

That highway through St. John's' downtown feels so out of place.

You expect a city like Toronto or Montreal to have something like that, not there.

looks more like the Van Horne boulevard

[milomilo]

St John's really should have brought the freeway right to the dock. The situation now, with frequent semis carrying loads of chemicals, drill pipe and other oilfield equipment down the old street network is thoroughly sub optimal.

Outside of the centre though, Newfoundland's roads are actually great, often being built as 'super twos' with grade separations, which is better than the, uh, crappy fours we have in Alberta.

[alps]

New LIDAR image of the sinkhole belt at Oxford, NS, through which Highway 104 (the Trans-Canada Highway) runs:



MP fears sinkhole could one day impact Highway 104

The Liberal MP for Cumberland-Colchester wants to know if conditions that created the sinkhole in Oxford exist around Highway 104.

This after preliminary results of an imaging survey made public last week appears to show a well-defined belt of sinkholes in the area, extending for about 5 kms.

Bill Casey says the Trans-Canada Highway goes right through the middle of the sinkhole belt.

Casey has asked provincial Transportation Minister Lloyd Hines and federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau to help expand the study to include the highway.

"There are over 100 sinkholes in this ridge and the highway goes right though the middle," he tells NEWS 95.7's The Rick Howe Show. "I don't know what the risk is, but the consequences would be horrific if something happened. If it opened up like it did in Oxford, it would be a catastrophe."

Casey says he's not trying to be alarmist, but with Highway 104 being a major transportation corridor in the Maritimes, we need to know what we're dealing with.

[Dengler Avenue]

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First the isthmus, now this.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue

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First the isthmus, now this.

Indeed.

That map of the sinkholes WRT the TCH at Oxford is truly frightening. It makes you wonder if they shouldn't be actively reconsidering realigning the road around Oxford.

But you're quite right, the other risk to the TCH at the Isthmus of Chignecto is equally as frightening. The current dykes protecting the Tantramar Marsh at the isthmus are very old, increasingly fragile, and at increasing risk of getting overtopped by flooding events. This almost happened once a couple of years ago during a storm and the only thing protecting the TCH from getting flooded (or washed out) was the CN Rail embankment (which wasn't really designed as being a flood control structure when it was built). It was a near catastrophe.

The TCH at the Tantramar Marsh is really the only practical route from Nova Scotia (and Newfoundland) to the ROC. If it were ever to wash out in a major flood, it would cripple the Maritime economy.

And meanwhile the governments do nothing, choosing instead to gaze at their navels and blame each other as to whose responsibility it would be to pay for a fix.

[SignalHillHiker]

That isthmus seems so wide to me. It's fascinating how areas of such low elevation are vulnerable across such a huge area. Sea levels would have to rise enough to completely overtop PEI in order to cut the Avalon off over our isthmus.