Alberta Highway 216
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| Highway 216 |
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| Anthony Henday Drive Maintained by Alberta Transportation |
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Alberta Highway 2, Alberta Highway 14, Whitemud Drive, Yellowhead Trail | ||||
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Highway 216, also known as Anthony Henday Drive, is the highway designation for the current construction project of a ring road around Edmonton, Alberta. The road is being built within the Transportation and Utilities Corridor, which consists of land owned by the province. The land was purchased though the 1970s and 1980s and encircles the city. More than half of the road is completed, starting at the eastern section from Yellowhead Trail / Highway 16, south to Highway 14, then west to Calgary Trail / Gateway Boulevard / Highway 2, further west and then north to 137 Avenue north of the Yellowhead Trail / Highway 16.
The southeastern section from Calgary Trail / Gateway Boulevard to Highway 14 was completed October 23, 2007. The southeastern section is a public-private partnership (P3 — also known as a design-build-operate project), in which Access Roads won the contract for $493 million to build the road and maintain it for 30 years [1].
On the northern section of Anthony Henday Drive, construction is finished from Highway 16 in the west, north to 137 Ave, where it will meet St. Albert's project of a regional road, bypassing the city to the west. Alberta's Premier, Ed Stelmach, has confirmed that the province wants most of the north leg of the Anthony Henday ring road to be completed by 2011 [2]. Construction of the next leg will run 21 km from the Yellowhead west of 184 Street to Manning Drive (Highway 15). When the north stretch is done, a 9 km gap in the northeast will remain. This final completion of the ring includes a crossing over the North Saskatchewan River, so approvals from Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Transport Canada, as well as intense environmental studies, will be needed.
[edit] Interchanges and Intersections
Eventually the entire route will have freeway status, which means grade separation at all crossings to allow free-flow traffic. This is a list of all the intersections (completed and planned) starting at the eastern intersection of the Anthony Henday and the Yellowhead Trail, heading clockwise.
| Direction | Intersecting road | Current intersection type | Planned intersection |
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| North-South | 130 Ave | none | Partial cloverleaf interchange |
 Yellowhead Trail (Highway 16) |
Partial cloverleaf interchange | Stack interchange | |
| Petroleum Way | Flyover | ||
| 101 Ave / Baseline Road | Partial cloverleaf interchange | Cloverstack | |
| Sherwood Park Freeway / Wye Road | Cloverleaf interchange | ||
| Meridin Street | At-grade (no crossover) | ||
| Whitemud Drive | Cloverleaf interchange | ||
| 38 Ave | Flyover | ||
| East-West | Highway 14 | Directional T interchange | |
| 17 Street | Partial cloverleaf interchange | ||
| 34 Street | Flyover | ||
| 50 Street | Partial cloverleaf interchange | ||
| 66 Street | Flyover | ||
| 91 Street | Partial cloverleaf interchange | ||
| Parsons Road | Flyover | ||
| Highway 2 / Gateway Boulevard | Stack interchange | ||
| 111 Street | Diamond interchange | ||
| 119 Street / 127 Street | At-grade (no crossover) | ||
| Terwillegar Drive | Diamond interchange | ||
| South-North | Cameron Heights Drive | At-grade (northbound traffic lights) | unknown |
| Lessard Road | At-grade (traffic lights) | Partial cloverleaf interchange | |
| 62 Ave / Callingwood Road | At-grade (traffic lights) | Partial cloverleaf interchange | |
| Whitemud Drive | Partial cloverleaf interchange | Cloverstack | |
| Webber Greens Drive / 87 Ave | Partial cloverleaf interchange | ||
| Stony Plain Road / 100 Ave (Highway 16A) | At-grade (traffic lights) | Partial cloverleaf interchange | |
| 109 Ave | At-grade | Partial cloverleaf interchange | |
| 111 Ave | At-grade (no crossover) | ||
| Yellowhead Trail (Highway 16) |
Partial cloverleaf interchange | Cloverstack | |
| West-East | Ray Gibbon Drive / 184 Street | At-grade | Partial cloverleaf interchange |
| 137 Ave | none | Diamond interchange | |
| 170 Street | none | Flyover | |
| St. Albert Trail (Highway 2) | none | Partial cloverleaf interchange | |
| Campbell Road | none | Diamond interchange | |
| 142 Street | none | Flyover | |
| 127 Street | none | Partial cloverleaf interchange | |
| 97 Street (Highway 28) | none | Partial cloverleaf interchange | |
| 82 Street | none | Flyover | |
| 66 Street | none | Partial cloverleaf interchange | |
| 50 Street | none | Partial cloverleaf interchange | |
| Manning Drive (Highway 15) | none | Stack interchange | |
| Victoria Trail | none | Flyover | |
| 153 Ave | none | Partial cloverleaf interchange | |
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