2021 Season - E01 - The Regina Bypass

[@centinelroads]

2:17 Hi Phil, here's a terminology you could use in your later videos. That type of interchange mentioned with two at-grade roundabouts is generally called a dumbbell interchange. Hope this helps!

[@TEETHWHORE2001]

We just got one in Winnipeg and I didn't know what the exact interchange type was called, thank you very much!

[@highway2heaven91]

Looks like Saskatchewan took some design cues from Alberta on this one. Great Highway!

[@RageandSig]

Love this channel. Thank you for all the editing and great content.

[@TransCanadaPhil]

Thanks, I just finished a new 2 part series on Kootenay National Park too. The 2nd part is posted now.

[@waltersaul1807]

Great to see another Trans Canada Phil video!

[@RoadsandBridges]

Wonderful great sharing 👍🌺❤️♥️

[@TransCanadaPhil]

thanks for watching! I just recorded some new footage of Hecla Island in Manitoba for an upcoming road video!

[@Betamax91]

Great video, thanks for sharing! Love the prairie landscape. There is so little traffic, absolutely amazing compared with Europe, where I live. One can really enjoy driving there :-)

[@TransCanadaPhil]

yes it's a huge difference. I drove in Europe for the first time a few years back and it has a very different feel to it. Driving in Canada/US is easier because you don't have to pay attention as much, you can just sort of let your mind wander for hours on the road. That's not the case in Europe I found where you really have to pay attention all the time.

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

Certainly a significant improvement compared to Victoria Avenue entering Regina. Though I still wish they hadn't sold off the right-of-way for interchanges along Victoria. Nice work on the video.

[@cammy85]

It would have been harder to pull off. The same with the remaining intersections in Medicine Hat.

[@TransCanadaPhil]

it cuts a good 20 min off the drive if you have no intention of stopping in Regina.

[@kennypalermo9071]

@@TransCanadaPhil Can you drive down to the US?

[@compdude100]

@@kennypalermo9071 I'm pretty sure he can't with the border closed. And I can't go to Canada either, even though I'm less than 2 hours away from the border 🙁

[@kennypalermo9071]

@@compdude100 Why's the border closed?

[@MrSniperFromMars]

Very nice bypass. It’s great to see that SK has made the #1 TCH completely free-flowing throughout the province. Hopefully one day it’ll be that way through the entire country. Nice work on the video

[@keithng2517]

That may take decades since BC and Ontario are the major chokepoints of the TransCanada Highway to become fully divided.

[@JonathanTRoyNI]

Nice vid and nice tunes as well.

[@ProJC]

Im hoping 9th avenue becomes the ring road so that there is an attachment northern of Regina to the Bypass. I hate having to slow to 70 after getting off the ring road just to then speed up to 110.

[@EuropeanRoads]

Great video. I suppose Winnipeg should take notice of what Saskatchewan and Alberta are constructing in terms of ring roads.

[@mattmoore2279]

I think they have as there's one interchange being built on Winnipeg's ring road (at St. Mary's Rd), with more planned.

[@TransCanadaPhil]

There are plans to make the Winnipeg perimeter a freeway, along with new bypasses around Headingly and St.Norbert (leading into Winnipeg), but like everything, things seem to happen slowly here.

[@kennypalermo9071]

@@TransCanadaPhil What car did you use?

[@herschelwright4663]

There are also plans to complete the inner ring road by extending the Chief Peguis Trail from Main Street to Brookside Boulevard.

[@TransCanadaPhil]

@@herschelwright4663 yup, you bet! My house is about 300 metres from where the new McPhillips/Chief Peguis Trail interchange will go :-)

[@VirtualExerciseChannel]

Excellent, well done!😃👍

[@TransCanadaPhil]

thank you! Regina's got a great new perimeter!

[@socarboy]

A great day for a ride in Saskatchewan, Good season opener and enjoyed the ride. Interesting that the major city Regina, is blanketed by plains.

[@TransCanadaPhil]

yup, Regina is flat as a pancake. It's the epitome of Prairie city :-)

[@KCWanderlust]

Nice... And not too crowded, too!

[@TransCanadaPhil]

Regina is almost an island of urban in a vast vast prairie. It's the flattest section of all the prairie area.

[@kennypalermo9071]

Great to hear that! You made a really good start for hikes.

[@zichenafrog]

Nice to see Western Canada getting improvements. It'd be nice to see TCH 1 get improvements to reach full freeway status through Calgary and West of Banff

[@TransCanadaPhil]

yes, the simple way to do that would be to re-align to the TCH to connect thru south Calgary (instead of 16th in the north) and connect to Glenmore Trail. Only a few more interchanges on Glenmore and it would be a complete freeway route through the city.

[@landongendur]

I personally like taking the 901/22X to get to south Calgary from the east. Upgrading that highway would be nice.

[@highway2heaven91]

@@TransCanadaPhil Or just realign it with Stoney Trail.

[@buddyclem7328]

Nice drive!

[@cammy85]

5:44 that happened in your initial video too!!

[@TransCanadaPhil]

yeah I think I lifted the commentary there directly from the first video lol.

[@rebornangel7701]

Sooo beautiful...

[@BrandonClaridge]

I also noticed that all of the bridges over the Regina Bypass have the stylized outline of Saskatchewan (in yellow and green) that is used as the provincial government's official logo, along with applying blue-grey paint to the bridges and retaining walls. As a Texan, that kind of attention to detail reminds me a lot of what TxDOT does with putting the outline of Texas (and applying substantial paint jobs) on many bridges down here. And despite being almost 20 degrees of latitude further north, the Saskatchewan landscape (at least in the summertime) does not look all too different from the Texas panhandle from the ground, albeit it is more lush (drought can still be a concern even that far north). The cooler climate does mean that less evapotranspiration, or the loss of moisture to the atmosphere, occurs relative to the central and southern Plains; furthermore, on much of the northern Plains (excluding the Cypress Hills, most of Montana's portion of the high plains except near the Canadian border, SW ND and W SD) there are plenty of natural lakes that resulted from glacial erosion.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

Please educate me on the logistics of a bike ride on the highway.

[@passatboi]

Yasss! Great video. Meanwhile, Winnipeg is getting one interchange at St. Mary's - lol. The TCH isn't a freeway through all of SK though - yes, no lights, but still cross-traffic and left turns.

[@TransCanadaPhil]

you are right. That's why I was careful to say, Saskatchewan is the first province in western Canada to have a completely twinned, free-flowing TCH, not necessarily freeway (as there could still be uncontrolled/unsignalized intersections). IMHO that's good enough for most of western Canada. I don't think it's really needed to have interchanges for those dozens of minor "Range Roads" which only have a few cars/day.

[@polskiewinnipeg]

i mean if the ndp was like doer the province would have been better off finacially for the last decade of population growth sadly.

[@passatboi]

@@TransCanadaPhil Yeah, but free-flowing normally means no cross streets, stops, left turns, etc. Left turns and traffic turning on to the road without merging ramps impede the flow.

[@kennypalermo9071]

@@TransCanadaPhil Is your goal to fly from BC?

[@BrandonClaridge]

I do recall you saying something about how interchanges and overpasses with very minor roads were overkill on Interstate 29 in North Dakota. It seems that US states will do what is necessary to make certain major highways Interstate-standard, even though that can add a lot of extra expense. North of the 49th parallel MB-75 is an at-grade divided highway by comparison, though it is not entirely free-flowing due to signal lights in St. Norbert (southern Winnipeg) and in Morris. Ideally there should be a free-flowing highway (not Interstate standard of course) from the US border to the Perimeter Highway.

[@ZurkeyTurkey]

I paved most of the bypass 3 years and over 300,000 tonnes of asphalt

[@TransCanadaPhil]

fantastic! It's a wonderful freeway! Thanks for coming!

[@AllAdventuresChannel]

Love tracks that you choose. Sorry for asking, are those copyrighted tracks? Want to use in my videos

[@TransCanadaPhil]

yes but I'm not monetizing them in any way. KZbin recognizes the copyright on these tracks and is allowing them because I'm not trying to make money on ads or anything like that. Cheers :-).

[@AllAdventuresChannel]

@@TransCanadaPhil Thank you for your reply. I know it's hard to find good tracks without copyright claims... I like how to do your videos, you could make money if you were able to find free songs. All the best!

[@owejay7981]

Hello from California. I enjoyed the video. Maybe I missed it but what is the speed limit?

[@cammy85]

Surprisingly, they were able to keep it at 110 km/h since it's far enough from any city limits compared to Ring Road which remains at 100 km/h.

[@owejay7981]

@@cammy85 Thanks. That is about what I would have guessed. Looks like a nice cruising road.

[@CrystalClearWith8BE]

The complete Regina Bypass consists of SK-1/TCH Mainline from the south and east and SK-11 from the west. Great drive though!

[@johnsoltau620]

Why didn’t you drive to the SK 11 interchange?

[@TransCanadaPhil]

I was almost out of gas (I was basically running on fumes at that point) and had to find a gas station ASAP. I was hoping there would be gas stations along the Bypass, but apparently not yet :-)

[@johnsoltau620]

@@TransCanadaPhil I drive thru Regina whenever I go from Indiana to Jasper NP, last trip in 2019 (and 15 other times), so the bypass was well along but far from done. I always change my money at the TD bank on the south side of town and eat lunch at the A&W across the street. But I’m now 74 and with COVID probably hanging over us for the next few years, I have probably had my last visit. I love to drive the expressway level of highways in the US and Canada on my way to visiting the scenic parks. Since I will not be driving the bypass, I appreciate being able to see it because of your efforts. Thanks.

[@TransCanadaPhil]

@@johnsoltau620 I just hope they open some truck stops or gas stations along some of those interchanges on the bypass. It's a little barren looking at the moment and they could certainly use a good truck stop, say at exit 247 at the Highway 6 junction; a big Flying J or something.

[@johnsoltau620]

@@TransCanadaPhil I suspect that if you checked, you would find that one or more truck stops already have options on land at several interchanges, along with MacDonalds, Tim Hortons, and any number of hotel chains.

[@Pyeknu]

So the section on the bypass is more like an 11A route, you mean?

[@zichenafrog]

It would have to be, 11 starts from 6 and goes to Saskatoon. The West bypass is a separate section that intersects with 11, it would make more sense to give it a different number

[@McWrisk]

Technically the “west bypass” is now highway 11 and highway 11 now ends at the TCH on the west side of town. The section from Highway 6 to the “bypass” is really 11A. At least officially.

[@rudysimmonds3252]

Great video and it looks like someone's harvesting grain. What time of year August or September? Cheers !

[@TransCanadaPhil]

This was recorded on Tuesday September 8th, 2020 (just last fall) :-)

[@highwaysbyways4281]

Looks pretty good. They maybe should have followed Alberta's example and signed this road as Highway 111.

[@davidsturm7706]

Can you explain the 111 comment? Alberta uses 200's for bypasses. 201 around Calgary and 216 around Edmonton.

[@highwaysbyways4281]

@@davidsturm7706 The ring roads are actually numbered because they are bypasses for highways 2 and 1 (Calgary) and 2 and 16 (Edmonton)

[@davidsturm7706]

@@highwaysbyways4281 I'm quite aware of how Alta. numbers bypasses. They use 200-series numbering as I noted... 201 because of TCH 1, and 216 because of the Yellowhead. I knew that. I asked you why you suggest it should have been numbered 111. If you can explain that, it would be appreciated.

[@tyfrank3427]

@@davidsturm7706 Highway 1 and 11 That's my interpretation.

[@davidsturm7706]

@@tyfrank3427 that could be. 601 then would parallel 201 and 216 as the intersection of NS and EW routes. 11 is a diagonal that ends in Reg.

[@dvferyance]

I hope more of western Canada makes improvements like this.

[@TransCanadaPhil]

Here's a pretty good article explaining what must be done. The Chief Peguis Trail extension and the Headingly Bypass in Winnipeg are the top priorities I'd like to see done. www.trucknews.com/features/western-canadian-highways-need-upgrades/

[@kennypalermo9071]

@@TransCanadaPhil Are you Tucker Carlson?

[@compdude100]

@@kennypalermo9071 wut?

[@kennypalermo9071]

@@compdude100 Because he wants to be a president today.

[@tyfrank3427]

We need better infrastructure in Western Canada. We need a new highway starting just west of Golden BC, following through the Howse Pass, connecting Alberta's highway 11, then Highway 11 needs upgrades. Then East of Red Deer to Saskatoon. There's not a great highway from Red Deer to Saskatoon and it is needed. Calgary needs a new route for Highway 1. Glenmore makes sense, although it could be like Washington, DC and the Stoney could take Highway concurrently with 201. The Deerfoot needs to be 8 lanes throughout Calgary, as well as 8 lanes north of Calgary to Airdrie. Highway 16 in Edmonton needs to become a full freeway and should be no less than 8 lanes. There needs to be a better route North and South in Edmonton, too, and the south leg of the Anthony Henday needs to 6 lanes minimum. Highway 1 needs to be a 4 lane freeway throughout BC and the Coquihalla should be signed as Highway 1. From the Aggasiz interchange to Abbotsford should be 6 lanes minimum and Abbotsford to West Vancouver should be at least 8 lanes minimum. There is no practical way to build a ring road in the Lower Mainland, therefore what is there needs substantial upgrades.

[@highway2heaven91]

Agree with most of this comment. However, the reason for most of this is lack of funding for Highway projects in Western Canada, coupled with bureaucracy (as far as I know). There has been some talk of extending Highway 11 there just may not be enough demand for it. It seems that most people in Red Deer are content with zipping down to Calgary on the QE2 and taking the TCH from there to either BC or SK (Or using other existing roads. Once again, I may be wrong here). Stoney Trail would be a better candidate for a Highway 1 realignment since rerouting it to Glenmore trail would require buying more land since there is no existing corridor to get back to the current route on either side of Calgary. The same argument could be used for Edmonton as Highway 16 could be rerouted along the Northern ring of the Anthony Henday. However there are plans to upgrade 16 to a full freeway eventually, they just need the money. A good N-S route doesn't exist mainly because there isn't really anywhere you can go north of Edmonton aside from Fort McMurray and you can easily connect with highways that can get you there using the Henday. Anyone going to Yellowknife or Grande Prairie can just use Highway 16. If you need to get anywhere else, there are decent options but anything major would require having to displace homes and businesses. Funding issues kept the Henday and Deerfoot from being widened as well. BC probably has funding issues with Hwy 1 as well, although I have no idea why the Coquihalla hasn't been resigned as Hwy 1 yet. They also could find some way to upgrade/reroute Pacific Hwy outside of Langley to a freeway/divided highway for a better connection to I-5 from Highway 1.

[@landongendur]

I still think they should've named the new bypass "Pussyfoot Trail" so you can pussyfoot around Regina.

[@traviskylesumugoy332]

:D

[@thecoolannishatk.]

Idk man shots pretty flat