100 Avenue is a major
arterial road
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in west
Edmonton
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,
Alberta
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, Canada.
The road starts as
Stony Plain Road
Stony Plain Road is an expressway and arterial road Edmonton, Alberta. Parkland Highway is an alternative route to the corresponding section of Highway 16 in Parkland County.
Overview
Stony Plain Road
Stony Plain Road is an Expressway ...
(
Alberta Highway 16A
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), and as it approaches
Anthony Henday Drive
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it separates into westbound and eastbound one-way streets. The westbound lanes occupy the 101 Avenue alignment, keeping the name Stony Plain Road, while the eastbound street becomes 100 Avenue. 100 Avenue passes through a commercial area, through the major intersection of
170 Street and
Mayfield Road, before becoming its own
two-way street
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at 163 Street; it is also known as ''John and Zita Rosen Way'' between 178 Street and 170 Street.
It passes by
MacEwan University
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Centre for the Arts Campus before arterial 149 Street, which can be used to get back on Stony Plain Road if one were on the way to
downtown
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.
Neighbourhoods
List of neighbourhoods 100 Avenue runs through, in order from west to east:
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Stewart Greens
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La Perle
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Place LaRue
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Terra Losa
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Britannia Youngstown
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Glenwood
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West Jasper Place
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Canora
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Crestwood
Major intersections
This is a list of major intersections, starting at the west end of 100 Avenue.
Other segments
100 Avenue is an important street in
Downtown Edmonton
Downtown Edmonton is the central business district of Edmonton, Alberta. Located at the geographical centre of the city, the downtown area is bounded by 109 Street to the west, 105 Avenue to the north, 97 Street to the east, 97 Avenue and Rossdale ...
, beginning at 102 Street near
Edmonton House
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. It continues westward and eventually merges into
Jasper Avenue
Jasper Avenue is an arterial road in central Edmonton, Alberta, and is the city's main street. Jasper Avenue has no official street number but is aligned with 101 Avenue with the majority of its length. Jasper Avenue is a major public tran ...
at 121 Street.
Segments of 100 Avenue also exist in
Terrace Heights
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Geography
Terrace Heights is located at (46.606682, ...
.
See also
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List of avenues in Edmonton
The following is a list of the east–west arterial thoroughfares in the city of Edmonton, Alberta. Numbered avenues run east-west with avenues numbers increasing to the north. In 1982 a quadrant system was adopted. Quadrant Avenue (1 Avenue; only ...
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Transportation in Edmonton The city of Edmonton, Alberta, has a transportation network fairly typical for a Canadian city of its size, involving most modes of transport including, but certainly not limited to, air, rail, road and public transit.
With very few natural barriers ...
References
Roads in Edmonton
Former segments of the Trans-Canada Highway
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