Terwillegar Drive is a developing

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in south-west

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. It is under construction, with the majority of its intersection at-grade, it retains its

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status. Once completed, it will be the third freeway in Edmonton not to have a highway designation after Groat Road and Wayne Gretzky Drive. South of Windermere Boulevard the roadway goes by 170 Street SW.

Route description

Terwillegar Drive begins at Whitemud Drive where Whitemud Drive turns from an east-west to north-south orientation as it approaches the

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, and is accessible via a modified

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with left exit ramps. It travels in a southwest direction through the Riverbend and Terwillegar Heights areas, passing through three

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s that are staged for future

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s. Terwillegar Drive crosses

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and enters the

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area. At Windermere Boulevard, another split intersection, Terwillegar Drive enters the southwest (SW) quadrant and becomes 170 Street SW, turning south. 170 Street SW continues south to Ellerslie Road / Hiller Road (Ellerslie Road was realigned from the 9 Avenue SW alignment, the original alignment is slated to be removed) where 170 Street is misaligned (aligned to the southbound and northbound off-ramps of a future diamond interchange) and continues south as a rural road. At 41 Avenue SW, the roadway enters

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and continues south as Range Road 253.

Future

The City of Edmonton is presently engaged in two planning studies to upgrade Terwillegar Drive and 170 Street SW to a freeway, which was originally envisioned in the 1980s. While the right-of-way is protected, the interchange plans are still in the design stage and there is no timeline set for construction. It remains to be seen if the 170 Street SW section will be renamed ''Terwillegar Drive''; current planning documents refer to both names. Additionally, there are plans to extend the freeway into Leduc County. It would go west of the

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, and then swing east across Highway 2 and join Highway 2A south of Leduc.

Neighbourhoods

Terwillegar Drive is the main spine and highway that travels through the Riverbend/Terwillegar/Windermere area of Southwest Edmonton. The list of specific neighbourhoods that Terwillegar Drive runs through, in order from south to north are:City of Edmonton map utility
/ref> * Ramsay Heights * Bulyea Heights * Rhatigan Ridge * Carter Crest * Falconer Heights * Leger * Haddow * Terwillegar Towne * Windermere Estates *

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* Keswick * Glenridding Heights * Glenridding Ravine

Major intersections

This is a list of major intersections, starting at the north end of Terwillegar Drive.

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