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

[Jherome Miguel]

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> You may also think of Highway 21 in Kneehill County as another example. It
follows Range Road 235 (or Range Road 23-5) and is signed locally as such,
but addresses (in the smaller blue signs like the one in the photo) use
Highway 21. In Red Deer County, both street signs and addresses use Highway
21. Such mismatches with local signage and addresses are not uncommon, and
the situation can vary from one municipality to another, but it seems while
the house numbers will follow the Dominion system (the first digits usually
indicating the range or township under the system), if the property is
accessible from a highway, the road name on the address will be the highway
number unless it's on a service road (which usually inherits the
range/township road number, being a realignment of the original since an
upgrade of a local road to highway will come with limiting direct
accesses). Some (rural) municipalities would locally name highways with
range/township road numbers, but others would just post them as "Highway
X".
Even complex are highways that do get three names: Highway X, a
range/township road number, and a special name.
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