Highway 46 is a
provincial highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either numbered or maintained by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a state or ...
in the
Canadian province
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Constitution of Canada, Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North Amer ...
of
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada. It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the ...
. It runs from the
Ring Road
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at
Regina to
Highway 1 and
Highway 364 near
Balgonie
Balgonie is a town in southeast Saskatchewan, Canada. Situated at the intersection of Highways 10, 46, and the Trans-Canada Highway, the town is part of the White Butte region and neighbours Pilot Butte, White City, and McLean. As well ...
; it is about long. Highway 46 intersects
Highway 362 and
Highway 624 and passes through the communities of
Pilot Butte and Balgonie; it is known as McDonald Street within Regina city limits.
History
The present alignment of Highway 46 used to be the original alignment of Highway 1,
but was reverted to a gravel grid road when the
Trans-Canada Highway
The Trans-Canada Highway (Canadian French, French: ; abbreviated as the TCH or T-Can) is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada, from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the A ...
was realigned entering Regina along
Victoria Avenue in the 1950s.
In the early 1980s, Highway 46 was assigned to the route
and was subsequently paved from Regina to Pilot Butte.
In the early 1990s, the highway was paved from Pilot Butte to Balgonie. It was again re-paved in the summer of 2014.
There are two previous uses of Highway 46 within Saskatchewan. The original route ran from former
Provincial Highway 29 at
Plenty, through
Ruthilda, to Provincial Highway 1 (present-day
Highway 4) near
Biggar.
The route was decommissioned in the 1930s when
Highway 51 was constructed between
Kerrobert
Kerrobert is a town in west central Saskatchewan. It has a population of 970 (2021).
Kerrobert is served by Highway 21, Highway 31, and Highway 51 as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is approximately east of the Saskatchewan/Alberta ...
and Biggar.
[ A second use was in the 1960s when Highway 46 travelled from Highway 4 near Val Marie to Claydon;][
]
Major intersections
From west to east:
See also
* Transportation in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan has a transportation infrastructure system of roads, highways, freeways, airports, ferries, pipelines, trails, waterways, and railway systems serving a population of approximately 1,132,505 (according to 2021 census) inhabitants year ...
* Roads in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan, the middle of Canada's three prairie provinces, has an area of and population of 1,150,632 (according to 2016 estimates), mostly living in the southern half of the province.
Currently Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure ope ...
References
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Pilot Butte, Saskatchewan
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Roads in Regina, Saskatchewan