Alberta Highways 2 and 201 - Calgary Freeways - 2020/07/27

[@ddanelle4729]

Was watching the "Battle of Alberta" and thought about researching Calgary and Edmonton. That's one very beautiful drive and 2 very fascinating cities. Thank you for posting.

[@jordansaintemarie]

Thank you. I’m making this trip tomorrow and although I’ve made it before I have driving anxiety and this has helped me a lot.

[@Matthew-km6fi]

Would love to see a Winnipeg video if your ever in Manitoba. Manitoba’s Perimeter Highway!

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

maybe one day -- but I haven't driven through Manitoba in a long time. There are some other Manitoba videos online though.

[@TransCanadaPhil]

My cousin lives in Airdrie. Nice ride. The west is the best!

[@SimonTonekham]

This video is really awesome! By the way, I've visited Calgary back in 2017 (not necessarily for the Calgary Stampede - but me and my dad ended up going there anyways) and my - It was an awesome city! It took me 12 years (yes, 12 years) to make my visit to Calgary a reality. I won't give you any specifics on why (and how) it took me that long, however. Aside from that, I really love the name how they named the highways and so forth (Stoney, Deerfoot and McLeod Trails are my favourites). Aside from that, this video is just plain awesome!!

[@CrystalClearWith8BE]

Alberta Highway 2 is Albert's longest north south highway. Alberta Highway 201 aka Stoney Trail is a beltway around Calgary. Hopefully, in the future, Stoney Trail will be a complete beltway around Calgary. The number reminds me of something: the hundred digit is even and means for Highway 2 and for a beltway and the last two digit means the parent route. The same thing happens to the beltway around Alberta's capital, Edmonton aka Alberta Highway 216 aka Anthony Henday Drive. The beltway numbers remind me of Interstate beltways because the hundred digit is an even number and the last two digits are for parent routes.

[@MrMjpm]

I'm mexican very impresed canada i love this country 🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@iamsam10001]

The landscape looks so different compared to Southern Ontario.

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

definitely. it's very scenic in my opinion. I love the yellow flowers from the canola fields.

[@alainouellet7794]

thought the same thing...im in montreal...so much green next to the highway!!!

[@jesusmarin95]

It is , its very flat , all the trees get taken out , Alberta is unique , well I've driven across the us and canada about 4 times now , and that is very thing I noticed

[@SlowedByCinnamxn]

It’s Literally just Plain Green grass but it’s not Bad

[@CrystalClearWith8BE]

Alberta is my favorite Canadian province because of nature, greenery and even the Canadian Rockies on the west of the province neighboring British Columbia.

[@GardcoreLegend]

Very wide open and nice green fields.

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

The green and yellow fields make for a great driving environment

[@nolimitjs7917]

Freeways in Alberta look kinda different

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

Yeah, they definitely have their own unique look. I don’t really love how the lines entrance lanes are painted, but I’m sure it works well enough.

[@nolimitjs7917]

Asphalt Planet you talkin about gore points?

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

@@nolimitjs7917 yeah.

[@celebrityxcruises8087]

I like Canada’s long on-ramps and off-ramps Feels better than the us

[@204trebor]

Is that the Calgary skyline in the distance at 3:19?

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

Yessir

[@dank81]

I personally tend to find the East side portion of Stoney rather dull and boring. Not much as far as scenery other than a nice view of the downtown skyline around the 16 avenue east Interchange. Just wait till that west portion is completed in a few years. I guarantee it'll be one of the nicest and most scenic freeway's in North America when it's done

[@Abbubba_09]

Omg these highways is so unique and different of the rest of canada . It looks like you driving in ireland without the mountains

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

Really, eh? I did not find the look of Calgary's freeways to really stand out to me as being unique. The only thing that struck me as being a bit different was the lane markings for entrance lanes joining the freeway.

[@Abbubba_09]

@@AsphaltPlanet1 maybe you are right. But in my perspective from what i saw in this segment of your video, if you remove all the mountains in ireland it would look like this.. the green is stunning with all the green space around

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

@@Abbubba_09 I definitely agree with you there. The green landscape is indeed stunning. Thanks for the comment!

[@김준현-u1y]

Wow so amazing wann go Albert oneday

[@thevultranttcuniverse6936]

When you get to Alberta do you drive there or fly?

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

I flew to Vancouver.

[@EuropeanRoads]

The signage is interesting, with '201 east Stoney Trail', which doesn't say much to people not familiar with Calgary's road naming or numbering. For all they know it could be just an exit to a secondary / suburban road.

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

There are some supplemental signs directing through traffic bound for Lethbridge, Medicine Hat etc. to follow the by-pass. But I agree -- it would be much more useful to sign control cities on the overhead signage vs. signing the name Stoney Trail.

[@highway2heaven91]

Alberta tends not to sign control cities unless you're on the edge of the city. However, they usually do a good job of warning motorists of a potential bypass.

[@dontgetlost4078]

So, if Alberta is the Texas of Canada, where *ARE THE 5-LEVEL STACK INTERCHANGES??* 😡🤬😤 Nice to see a video of Western Canada from you!

[@BrandonClaridge]

I know that was meant to be sarcastic, but those kind of interchanges are very expensive and are probably not needed in a province that has plenty of open land, even in the cities. I don't think they would handle Canadian winters too well either, but Ontario and Alberta do build some pretty big interchanges as it is. Besides, I know of no other place in the United States nor Canada that uses frontage roads to the same extent Texas does; this is why Texas has five-level stacks in the first place (I live in TX myself). I was about to say North America, but then I realized that many Mexican cities use frontage roads alongside their freeways.

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

lol. Thanks for the comment. The one thing that surprised me about Alberta was just how slow the drivers were. I thought that the Texans of Canada would drive as fast as the Texans of Texas do, but they do not.

[@BrandonClaridge]

@@AsphaltPlanet1 I guess Canadians in general are just more polite drivers. With respect to the DFW area, I have seen some pretty terrible drivers in Dallas (things like sudden, fast lane changes; it scares me to drive there sometimes), but Fort Worth drivers are better. Still, people drive pretty fast even in Fort Worth; the speed limits on a few of our urban freeways can get as high as 70 mph/113 kph (eg. I-35W south of downtown, I-20 in south Fort Worth), and people routinely exceed that. The tolled express lanes are even faster, with speed limits up to 75 mph/121 kph. I do not know of any other urban area, outside of Texas, that has speed limits that high posted along freeways in a metropolitan area. Either 100 kph in Canada, or 60 mph in the United States (slightly slower than 100 kph), seems like the usual upper limit for urban-area freeways. Some places with older freeways have even slower speed limits; 50 mph/80 kph is typical in New York City, for instance.

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

Canada has lots of awful drivers - it’s just that generally they seem to live in Ontario.

[@brianxyz]

@@AsphaltPlanet1 One reason most don't can be seen at 9:40. The pandemic also seems to have brought out people who have never driven before and they are extremely slow. At first it didn't matter because traffic was so much lighter. Now that major roads are much busier they're becoming a safety hazard in my opinion.

[@kingcurt7716]

R u gonna make a video in Vancouver?!

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

Yes. Eventually.

[@kingcurt7716]

Asphalt Planet Okay cool! Vancouver is my favorite Canadian city and Canada is my favorite country EH! Can’t wait to move there when I’m older! Where are you from by the way?

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

A Vancouverite would say that I live "back east". I'm from Ontario.

[@kingcurt7716]

Asphalt Planet Very cool Ontario is one of my favorite Provinces my favorite Province is British Columbia but I’m from Sacramento, California so yep!

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

I've been through Sacramento before -- I've traveled pretty extensively through California.

[@chansaicommerce1721]

COOL ++++++++++++++++

[@amayasnep]

Colour balance is off but very nice video otherwise.