Highway 46 is a
highway in the
Canadian province
Within the geographical areas of Canada, the ten provinces and three territories are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North ...
of
Saskatchewan. It runs from the
Ring Road
A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop, bypass or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city, or country. The most common purpose of a ring road is to assist i ...
at
Regina to
Highway 1 and
Highway 364 near
Balgonie; it is about long. Highway 46 intersects
Highway 362 and
Highway 624 and passes through the communities of
Pilot Butte and
Balgonie; it is known as ''McDonald Street'' within Regina city limits.
History
The present alignment of Highway 46 used to be the original alignment of Highway 1,
but was reverted to a gravel grid road when the
Trans-Canada Highway was realigned entering Regina along
Victoria Avenue in the 1950s.
In the early 1980s, Highway 46 was assigned to the route,
and was subsequently paved Regina to Pilot Butte.
In the early 1990s the highway was paved from Pilot Butte to Balgonie, and it was again re-paved in the summer of 2014.
There are two previous uses of Highway 46 within Saskatchewan. The original route ran from former ''
Provincial Highway 29'' at
Plenty
Plenty may refer to:
Places
* Plenty, Victoria, a town in Australia
* Plenty River (Victoria), a river in the Australian state of Victoria
*Plenty River (Northern Territory), a river in the Northern Territory of Australia
* Plenty, Tasmania, a sma ...
, through
Ruthilda, to ''Provincial Highway 1'' (present-day
Highway 4) near
Biggar.
The route was decommissioned in the 1930s when
Highway 51 was constructed between
Kerrobert
Kerrobert is a town in west central Saskatchewan. It has a population of 970 (2021)
Kerrobert is served by Highway 21, Highway 31 and Highway 51 as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is approximately east of the Saskatchewan/Alberta bord ...
and Biggar.
[ A second use was in the 1960s when Highway 46 travelled from Highway 4 near Val Marie to Claydon;] the route became part of Highway 18 in the 1970s.[
]
Major intersections
From west to east:
References
{{Saskatchewan Provincial Highways
Pilot Butte, Saskatchewan
046 46 may refer to:
* 46 (number)
* 46 (album), ''46'' (album), a 1983 album by Kino (band), Kino
* "Forty Six", a song by Karma to Burn from the album ''Appalachian Incantation'', 2010
* One of the years 46 BC, AD 46, 1946, 2046
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Roads in Regina, Saskatchewan