Jasper Avenue is an

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in central

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, 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 transit route as several of Edmonton's busiest bus routes travel along it. The LRT travels underneath Jasper Avenue between 99 and 110 Streets. It is named after Jasper Hawes, manager of a

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trading post of

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in the early 1800s, located in present-day

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Route description

Jasper Avenue begins at 125 Street in the community of Westmount as a local residential street. One block to the east, 124 Street turns east and becomes Jasper Avenue, which functions as its unofficial western terminus, with 102 Avenue taking over as the main east–west artery to west Edmonton. Jasper Avenue passes the community of Oliver through mixed retail and high density residential. East of 109 Street, Jasper Avenue passes through the

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and is home to many of Edmonton's oldest heritage buildings (for example the

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) and some of Edmonton's tallest office towers, including Canadian Western Bank Place and

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. East of 97 Street, Jasper Avenue departs from both the downtown core and the 101 Avenue alignment, running northeast along the

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valley through the community of

Boyle Street Boyle Street is a neighbourhood located in central Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, immediately east of the downtown core. The neighbourhood is bounded by Grierson Hill to Rowland Road until Alex Taylor Road and then Jasper Avenue east until 82 Street ...

. At 82 Street, the roadway turns north; however Jasper Avenue continues east as a local residential street through the community of

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, ending at 77 Street. The Jasper West area (west of 97 Street) is one of the major retail, living, commercial, and entertainment districts of the city.

History

Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta (27655323461)

While slow reinvestment continued into the 2000s, the downtown core has recently seen increased development, such as the rise of the

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and

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to the north, resulting in increased activity and redevelopment along Jasper Avenue. The original alignment of Highway 16 which entered Edmonton from the west along Stony Plain Road and 102 Avenue, followed Jasper Avenue between 124 Street and 95 Street, where it connected with Rowland Road and the Dawson Bridge, left Edmonton to the east along 101 Avenue. In the 1950s, Highway 16 was moved to 111 Avenue and 118 Avenue, resulting in the inner city route becoming Highway 16A. In the early 1980s, the Highway 16A designation along Jasper Avenue was phased out. Jasper Avenue Westbound Edmonton

Neighbourhoods

List of neighbourhoods Jasper Avenue runs through, in order from west to east:City of Edmonton map utility
/ref> * Westmount * Oliver *

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Major intersections

Starting at the west end of Jasper Avenue.

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