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

[John Whelan]

Local usage can be difficult to define.  I might refer to things 
differently than perhaps my neighbour does and again it might depend 
whom I'm speaking to as to which term I might use.

Cheerio John

Jherome Miguel wrote on 1/22/2022 6:56 PM:
> 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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