Calgary Freeways - Stoney Trail Counter-Clockwise - Alberta Highway 201 - 2020/07/27

[@Citizen000]

Great to see, thank you for creating and sharing. I grew up in Calgary but moved away to Toronto in 83.....so much of what I remember about driving around Calgary has simply disappeared. The 201 especially adds a whole new dimension to the city, especially the NW leg as it winds through the neighbourhoods. It's this area that I grew up in.

[@xlbolt]

The views along the NW portion of Stoney really made up for the ride along the east half of the loop. Great footage!

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

The NW section is my favourite as well. Though I have high hopes for the SW and Western segments as well

[@nickbalderson5300]

@@AsphaltPlanet1 The SW section is probably one the best stretches of freeway in Calgary.

[@82bonezz]

Thanks for the video. Thinking about moving to Calgary and nice to see what the highway system looks like. Shocking to see how little traffic there is. Then again I live in southern ON so it’s all pretty much just once giant city now.

[@highway2heaven91]

The view from 10:49 on is probably one of the best views that you can get from a freeway in Canada east of the Rockies. It kind of makes me wonder if this is what a large city in Montana would have looked like if the state had one.

[@765kvline]

Very entertaining. Interesting to see the lane markings, signage and other traffic control mechanisms in Canada vs. U. S. A couple of your abrupt stops nearly made me lose my lunch at those accelerated speeds, but very interesting drive in Canada. Never have been there.

[@dontgetlost4078]

Alberta seems to enjoy large overhead signs and freeway-to-freeway interchanges that take a lot of horizontal space and not much vertical space. =w= Nice drive!

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

Alberta's freeway to freeway interchange are, in my opinion, generally fairly well designed, however because so much of the ramps are constructed on grade, they don't seem as impressive as they could be when driving through.

[@brianxyz]

A lot has changed since you filmed this! The last part of your video where you exited onto Highway 1 from the 201 is turning into what I think might be Calgary's most impressive interchange. They're also adding lanes in the N.E. I believe a third lane is being added from 17th Ave. S.E. up to Airport Trail.

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

I hope to go back at somepoint and check it out. I thought about going to visit again this fall (flights were cheap), but maybe in a year or two. Thanks for the comment.

[@aurorafarley4338]

@@AsphaltPlanet1 Are you in a Nissan Maxima for the July 2020 trip?

[@brettthomas5605]

I believe this was filmed in the early summer of 2020. Many of those construction sites are now completed and others will be completed in the fall of 2022.

[@TransCanadaPhil]

Calgary's Perimeter Highway. The new section is going to be fantastic, I love how they've dug right through that hill.

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

I’m looking forward to driving the completed ring road.

[@DanielGarcia1980]

What a beautiful drive, and city. I live in Denver CO, and people often compare Calgary to Denver for similar scenery and standard of living, and they are both giants in the energy industry. Buy from what I see of Calgary, it's a much cleaner and better planned for its size of 1.5 million residents. Denver, at 3.4 million residents in the metro, has infrastructure for a city the size of Calgary, but 3x the population. And as nice as most suburbs are, the city of Denver is very dirty by comparison of Calgary. But don't get me wrong, minus the lack of infrastructure for a city its size, Denver is one of the nicer cities to live in, in the US.

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

I’ve only been to Denver once before. It’s setting in the foothills of the mountains is very similar to that of Calgary’s. I am very much looking forward to seeing I-70 reconstructed once that has been completed.

[@DanielGarcia1980]

@@AsphaltPlanet1 I-70 is coming along well and ahead of schedule. The westbound lanes and bridges are finished, and they just finished tearing down the rest of the viaduct, last week, so work can start on the eastbound lanes. But the project is ahead of schedule, so CDOT is hoping by summer of next year I-70 rebuild should be complete! :-)

[@nickbalderson5300]

Did you also check out glenmore trail

[@CrystalClearWith8BE]

Oh, yes. Another video about your July 2020 trip to Western Canada, well, that was BC and Alberta of course as you had your entire trip there. What did you do at that time? I also love freeways in Alberta and even AB 1/TCH Main Route just east of Banff and the Rockies. Calgary's freeway system is still expanding and AB 201/Stoney Trail is expected to be a complete freeway beltway by 2024.

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

I drove around a bunch of BC and Alberta. I have several more videos to upload from that series.

[@TU-Mrema682]

In the future can you pls film the Sam Houston Tollway when the Houston Channel Ship Bridge finish if u haven't filmed it

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

Probably not. The electronic tolling of the Sam Houston Tollway isn't very friendly for rental car users.

[@TU-Mrema682]

@@AsphaltPlanet1 Oh I didn't know u were using a rental car, I hope u get to film more videos around the World

[@SlowedByCinnamxn]

Very Nice Thumbnail for this Video!

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

Thank you

[@christmashunter4573]

How long was the drive?

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

About an hour

[@zaitunmatdiah6850]

Well it' seems to be Calgary Freeways, that's the part when road goes from Alberta and what city that you were going when you drive?

[@smith22]

Does Alberta have any logic (like Ontario and Quebec do) in how its freeways are named / numbered? And is it true that Calgary, Canada's 4th largest city, has no freeway connection to the rest of the country?!?! :-o

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

There isn’t any logic to how highways are numbered in Alberta. The numbering system doesn’t provide any indication if the highway will be a freeway or not.

[@smith22]

@@AsphaltPlanet1 : that's disappointing! and must be rather confusing, too

[@brettthomas5605]

To answer your second question. Canada has no "interstate" sytem like the US. The small population of the country does not warrent building a freeway system from coast to coast. Each province basically covers the cost of building highways within its jurisdiction. The federal government contributes on a project-by-project basis across the country.

[@highway2heaven91]

For the most part, no. The only freeways that have any logic are Hwy 201 in this video and Hwy 216 (Anthony Henday Drive) in Edmonton. They received their numbers because they connect Hwy 2 with the corresponding TCH in each city, Hwy 1 in Calgary and 16 in Edmonton. To answer the second question, Canada never had a need for facilitating troops across the country during an invasion like the US did (as far as I know, someone else may know more about this) so there was never a pressing need to connect the country with freeways. However, the TCH is a divided highway all the way from Vancouver to the Ontario border now and the only section where you are forced to drive on a two-lane road in Canada is in the Canadian Shield in Ontario.

[@Skanzool]

I wish we had quiet highways like this in Southern Ontario. It would be a lot less stressful getting around!!

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

me too. I certainly hope Ontario ends up constructing the GTA West highway.

[@urgeeked3977]

I just noticed the style of the roads in Alberta look pretty similar to Ontario’s except they use alot of gore points at the exits more than Ontario does

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

Thanks for the comment.

[@zaynabsafi3838]

8:02

[@RoadsOfAsiaBen]

Great drive! Are you aware there also trail named Tsuut'ina Trail a section that goes though Tsuutʼina Nation alongside Stoney Trail?

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

I was aware of that thanks

[@BrandonClaridge]

Just to clarify, Tsuut'ina Trail is the official name of the segment of AB-201 that is within the boundaries of the Tsuut'ina Nation. The remainder of the highway (excluding the segment inside the Tsuut'ina Nation) is officially called Stoney Trail.