Fort McMurray area
Hi folks,
I was looking for something to do the other day, so I tackled the Fort McMurray area. There were a bunch of URs in the region which I worked, plus cleaned up all the unknown direction/incorrect one-way (wish I knew why it did that) streets in both Fort McMurray and Fort McKay. I also did work on Hwy 63, from Fort McKay south to Wandering River, including a section where a UR had pointed out that the road has been twinned but did not show as such on the map. I used GPS markers for most of the new (NB) lane's location as the aerial view is too old to use.
This is my first attempt at splitting a road. Let me know if I did everything satisfactorily. The original road has township and range roads going off to each side intermittently along its length; I have no clue what they've done to those roads post-twinning. In my experience in other areas of Alberta (i.e. HWY 1A between Calgary and Cochrane), it's possible that they kept them and just joined them across the extra roadway as you would expect. But it's also possible for some of them to have disappeared or been relocated - one example I recall along the section of 63 appears to be a well site that would have been right in the middle of the new NB lanes.
Having said that, being twinned/divided now, should that section of 63 get Freeway status, or remain Major Highway?
I was looking for something to do the other day, so I tackled the Fort McMurray area. There were a bunch of URs in the region which I worked, plus cleaned up all the unknown direction/incorrect one-way (wish I knew why it did that) streets in both Fort McMurray and Fort McKay. I also did work on Hwy 63, from Fort McKay south to Wandering River, including a section where a UR had pointed out that the road has been twinned but did not show as such on the map. I used GPS markers for most of the new (NB) lane's location as the aerial view is too old to use.
This is my first attempt at splitting a road. Let me know if I did everything satisfactorily. The original road has township and range roads going off to each side intermittently along its length; I have no clue what they've done to those roads post-twinning. In my experience in other areas of Alberta (i.e. HWY 1A between Calgary and Cochrane), it's possible that they kept them and just joined them across the extra roadway as you would expect. But it's also possible for some of them to have disappeared or been relocated - one example I recall along the section of 63 appears to be a well site that would have been right in the middle of the new NB lanes.
Having said that, being twinned/divided now, should that section of 63 get Freeway status, or remain Major Highway?
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