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Highway 1
Trans-Canada Highway
Brooks Medicine Hat Banff Calgary Edmonton
Length:	522 kmcitation needed (324 mi)
Formed:	1962citation needed
West end:	BC 1 towards Golden, BC
Major junctions:	Hwy 93 near Banff Hwy 2 in Calgary Hwy 36 near Brooks Hwy 3 in Medicine Hat
East end:	Hwy 1 towards Gull Lake, SK
Provincial highways in Alberta < Hwy 216 Hwy 1A >

Highway 1 is southern Alberta's primary east-west highway. It is 522 km (324 miles) long in Alberta. It is part of the Trans-Canada Highway system and spans from the Alberta-Saskatchewan border to the Alberta-British Columbia border. Almost the entire span of the highway is divided with a minimum of two lanes in each direction.

Highway numbering on the Trans-Canada highway began in 2004. As of 2009, however, only the stretch of highway between Canmore and Calgary have numbered exits. It is unlikely that exit numbering will be employed throughout the entire highway, owing to the fact that the highway passes through Calgary as a major urban arterial road.

Exit numbers

As per Alberta convention, highway exit numbers are numbered from west to east.

Major junctions

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One major bottleneck exists in Calgary, where the highway becomes a congested urban arterial road (especially between Deerfoot Trail and 14 St. N.W. and again on a short section around 45 St. N.W.), and speed limits drop as low as 50 km/h (30 mph). While some road widening is underway, not until Stoney Trail is completed will a high-speed route exist across the city.

Photo gallery

Wildlife overpass, eastbound in the Banff National Park

Westbound to the Rocky Mountains

Eastbound near Canmore

See also

• Trans-Canada Highway

v • d • e Portions of the Trans-Canada Highway British Columbia: Highway 1 • Highway 5 • Highway 16 | Alberta: Highway 1 • Highway 16 | Saskatchewan: Highway 1 • Highway 16 | Manitoba: Highway 1 • Highway 16 • Highway 100 Ontario: Highway 17 • Highway 69 • Highway 400 • Highway 12 • Highway 7 • Highway 71 • Highway 11 • Highway 66 • Highway 417 Quebec: Autoroute 40 • Autoroute 25 • Autoroute 20 • Autoroute 85 • Route 185 • Route 117 • Autoroute 15 New Brunswick: Route 2 • Route 16 | Confederation Bridge | Prince Edward Island: Route 1 | Nova Scotia: Highway 104 • Highway 105 • Highway 106 | Newfoundland: Route 1

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