[Talk-ca] [Talk-us] "Highway X" and the like as names

[Jherome Miguel]

Continuing on, I would like to also bring up cases of some highways in
Alberta that got also their own names. While most would generally have a
number only, there are also plenty of those highways that got names
(range/township road names aside) for whole or parts of, posted in either
normal signs, trailblazer, or special shield, such as:

- Highway 1: Trans-Canada Highway
- Highway 2 through Calgary: Deerfoot Trail
- Highway 2 Calgary-Edmonton: Queen Elizabeth 2 Highway
- Highway 2 Grimshaw-Athabasca and Highway 55: Northern Woods and Water
Route (NWWR)
- Highway 3: Crowsnest Highway
- Highway 5 Waterton NP-Cardston, Highway 6 Pincher Creek-Waterton NP,
and Highway
21: Cowboy Trail
- Highway 11 Icefields Parkway–Red Deer: David Thompson Highway
- Highway 14: Poundmaker Trail
- Highway 16: Yellowhead Highway
- Highway 16A from west of Stony Plain to Edmonton city limit: Parkland
Highway
- Highway 33: Grizzly Trail
- Highway 35: McKenzie Highway
- Highway 36: Veterans Memorial Highway
- Highway 40: Hinton–Grande Prairie: Bighorn Highway
- Highway 60: Devonian Way
- Highway 88: Bicentennial Highway
- Highway 93 BC border–TCH interchange: Banff-Windermere Highway
- Highway 93 Lake Louise-Jasper: Icefields Parkway
- Highway 201: Stoney and Tsuutina Trails
- Highway 216: Anthony Henday Drive

While most of those names have been added in OSM, the problem however is
they sometimes conflict with actual local usage. While some of those names
have been in common usage, the most known being Trans-Canada (sometimes
shortened to TCH), the Deerfoot and Queen Elizabeth II Highway (also
shortened to "QE2"), the Yellowhead, the Mackenzie Highway, the Icefields
Parkway (and also most highways within Banff), and both Stoney Trail and
Anthony Henday (almost never referred by number locally), I would like to
point that some highways that got names are sometimes better known locally
by their number than their name. For example, Highway 16A, in my local
area, is named Parkland Highway, but is almost always called Highway 16A,
even in Stony Plain and Spruce Grove. The Edmonton portion of Highway 16A
is named Stony Plain Road (and 100 Ave on one-way eastbound approach to
Anthony Henday) and always referred to as such. I can say the same for
Devonian Way, which is always called Highway 60. For the other cases, local
input from fellow Albertans is needed.

Also another thing especially in rural Alberta is highways may be locally
posted with a range/township road number. I sometimes used those names to
replace "Highway X" where posted, but like with the case of highways with
special names mentioned above, it may not necessarily follow actual local
usage.
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