New Brunswick Route 2

Route 2 in New Brunswick, Canada
Trans-Canada Highway (English) Route Transcanadienne (French)
Basic data
Operator:	Department of Transportation, New Brunswick
Start of the street:	Edmundston ( 50 ° 3 ′  N , 101 ° 27 ′  W )
End of street:	Aulac ( 47 ° 29 ′  N , 68 ° 29 ′  W )
Overall length:	519 km
County :	Madawaska Victoria Carleton York Sunbury Queens Westmorland
Route 2 at Moncton
Course of the road Further on  ===  Quebec Madawaska Edmundston Saint-Léonard N to Tide Head , S to Van Buren , ME Victoria Grand Falls Perth Andover Carleton Woodstock W to Houlton , ME York S to St. Stephen Fredericton N to Fredericton S to Fredericton Sunbury Oromocto N to Saint John Saint John River Queens W to Fredericton , O to Sussex Westmorland W to Saint John Salisbury Moncton Dieppe W to Moncton , O to Port Elgin Sackville N to Port Elgin Missiquash River === Nova Scotia Further on   Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The Route 2 in the Canadian Atlantic province of New Brunswick is part of the Trans-Canada Highway system's. Furthermore, as a so-called core route , it is part of the Canadian National Highway System . This highway begins as a continuation of Route 185 of the neighboring province of Québec and ends on the eastern provincial border with Nova Scotia , where it continues as Highway 104 .

Route

Quebec - Woodstock

Route 2 in York County

The highway begins at Edmundston on the Québec border. There this highway is run as Route 185, in Québec it has been expanded to two lanes. From the provincial border, this highway is consistently four-lane. Edmundston is 9 km beyond the provincial border. There the highway meets the border between Canada and the United States . This follows the highway on the eastern side largely to Woodstock . Subordinate roads lead from the highway, from which a transition to the state of Maine in the United States is possible. Approx. 60 km after the start of the highway at Saint-Léonard , it meets Route 17 . This leads in a north-easterly direction to Tide Head , to the south-east over the Saint John River to US Highway 1 . Like the state border, Route 2 now turns south.

Woodstock - Moncton

At Woodstock , Route 95 branches off to the west , which runs from the US border as Interstate 95 along the Atlantic coast to South Florida to Miami . Route 2 now runs east to Greater Fredericton , the provincial capital. West of Fredericton, Route 3 branches off south and leads to St. Stephen . Route 2 itself runs as a bypass road south of the city, while routes 7 and 8 provide access to the city from route 2. Route 7 coexists with Route 2 for a distance of 12 km, but then branches off south to Saint John . At Coytown the highway runs over the Saint John River. It crosses Route 10 , which goes west back to Fredericton, east to Route 1 at Roachville . At River Glade , however, Route 1 itself joins Route 2.

Moncton - Nova Scotia

The route continues eastwards into the greater Moncton area , the second largest city in the province. Here, too, the highway takes on its role as a bypass, but passes north of the city. Route 15 crosses at Greater Moncton International Airport , which leads into the city of Moncton on the one hand and Port Elgin on the other . Route 2 turns to the southeast and passes the town of Sackville , where it encounters a foothill of the Atlantic for the first time . Just before the provincial border with Nova Scotia, Route 16 branches off , which leads first along the border and then over the Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Island . The highway ends with the border with Nova Scotia on the Missiquash River , it continues as Highway 104 .

history

Parts of the route were opened to traffic as early as 1926. Route 2 was planned as a west-east connection between Québec and Nova Scotia as early as 1927. Even then, it was supposed to connect the most important cities in New Brunswick. When a highway system was being planned across Canada in the 1950s, the route was added to that system.

Web links

Commons : New Brunswick Route 2  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Trans-Canada Highway website

Individual evidence

1. ^ National Highway System - An Overview. (PDF; 146.21 kB) Council of Ministers - Responsible for Transportation and Highway Safety, April 2008, accessed on June 29, 2016 (English). 
2. ^ Four-lane Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick open to traffic. Archived from the original on May 28, 2013 ; accessed on February 14, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Commerce Reports: A Weekly Survey of Foreign Trade, Thirtieth Year (1927), Volume 1: Nos. 1-13, p. 177