Alberta Highway 15
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Highway 15 (or Manning Drive within Edmonton) is a highway in the Edmonton Region of Alberta, connecting northeast Edmonton to the City of Fort Saskatchewan and communities within Lamont County. It serves as an alternative to Highway 16 that bypasses Elk Island National Park. The highway follows the route of a railway line completed in 1905 by the Canadian Northern Railway. In Edmonton, the most southerly portion of the route is named Fort Road, followed by Manning Drive to the north, a developing freeway.
Highway 15 is designated as a core route of Canada's National Highway System, between Highway 16 and the intersection with Highway 28A within Edmonton and is part of the Edmonton-Fort McMurray corridor.[1]
Route description
The highway begins at the intersection of 50 Street and Highway 16 (Yellowhead Trail) in Edmonton.[2] It proceeds north along 50 Street to Manning Drive, where it diverts northeast before passing over Anthony Henday Drive (Highway 216). Before leaving Edmonton, Highway 15 continues northeast past the southern terminus of Highway 28A. Within Sturgeon County, it intersects with the eastern terminus of Highway 37 and then turns southeast to cross the North Saskatchewan River and intersect with the northern terminus of Highway 21 in the City of Fort Saskatchewan. From this junction, Highway 15 travels northeast again and then east, intersecting with Highway 45 and Highway 29. It then turns southeast and passes through the towns of Lamont and Mundare. At the outskirts of Mundare, it begins a Template:Cvt concurrency with Highway 855 before ending at Highway 16.
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A significant portion of Highway 15 between Fort Saskatchewan and Edmonton is only two lanes. This has caused headaches for local commuters; Template:As of more than 23,000 vehicles crossed the bridge between Sturgeon County and Fort Saskatchewan daily (a 50% increase since 2009), and there had also been several fatal collisions.[3] On March 23, 2017, the provincial NDP government announced that the bridge spanning the North Saskatchewan River connecting Sturgeon County to Fort Saskatchewan would be twinned.[4] A second project would also see the remainder of the Fort Saskatchewan–Edmonton portion twinned.[5] The twinning of the highway (Project A) was completed for the projected completion date, in the fall of 2019,[6] while work is underway on construction of the new bridge, as well as a pedestrian bridge underneath it (Project B).[5] The new bridge was expected to open in 2022,Script error: No such module "Unsubst".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". to be utilized by traffic inbound to Fort Saskatchewan; outbound traffic will use the existing bridge.[5]
Major intersections
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See also
References
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