New Brunswick Route 2
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County:
- Madawaska
- Victoria
- Carleton
- York
- Sunbury
- Queens
- Westmorland
The Route 2 in the Canadian Atlantic province of New Brunswick is part of the Trans -Canada Highway system. This highway begins as a continuation of Route 185 the neighboring province of Quebec and ends at the eastern border of the province of Nova Scotia, he is there continued as Highway 104.
Route
Quebec - Woodstock
The highway begins at Edmundston on the border with Quebec. There, this Highway is listed as Route 185, is expanded two lanes in Québec. From the provincial border this highway has a minimum of four lanes. 9 km behind the provincial border is the place Edmunston. There, the highway meets the boundary between Canada and the United States. This follows the highway on the east side largely to Woodstock. Cause recurrent minor roads, from which a transition to the state of Maine in the United States is possible from the highway. Approx. 60 km after the start of the highway at Saint Leonard hits, this Route 17 This leads to the northeast after Tide Head, to Southeast over the Saint John River to U.S. Highway 1 As the state border and the Route 2 turns now to the south.
Woodstock - Moncton
At Woodstock to the west branches off Route 95, which leads from the U.S. border as Interstate 95 along the Atlantic coast to southern Florida to Miami. Route 2 now runs eastward to the Greater Fredericton, the provincial capital. West of Fredericton branches off Route 3 towards the south and leads to St. Stephen. Route 2 runs itself as a ring road south of the city, the routes 7 and 8 open from Route 2, the entrance of the city. Over a distance of 12 km, the Route 7 runs together with Route 2, but then branches off to the south to Saint John. In Coytown the highway crosses the Saint John River. It crosses Route 10, which runs west to go back to Fredericton, east to Route 1 at Roach Ville. In Riverglade but opens a self Route 1 to Route 2.
Moncton - Nova Scotia
The route continues eastward to the Greater Moncton, the second largest city of the province. Here, too, the highway his job as a bypass road was, however, leads north past the town. At the Greater Moncton International Airport crosses Route 15, which leads into the one in the city of Moncton, on the other hand to Port Elgin. The Route 2 turns to the southeast and leads past the city Sackville, where he meets for the first time on a spur of the Atlantic. Shortly before the provincial border to Nova Scotia branches off Route 16, which leads first along the border and then across the Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Iceland. The highway ends at the border with Nova Scotia on Missiquash River, he finds his continuation as Highway 104
History
Parts of the track have been in 1926 and opened to traffic. Route 2 was planned as early as 1927 East-West connection between Quebec and Nova Scotia. Even then so should be the main cities in New Brunswick are connected together. As the course of a highway system throughout Canada was planned through in the 1950s, the line was added to this system.