Talk:Trans-Canada Highway

message: "The longest continuous stretch of highway in the Trans-Canada Highway system is recognized as the longest national highway in the world, at 7,821 km, taking into account the distance travelled on ferries"
This is obviously wrong. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_1_%28Australia%29
:Where does it say this? Did you correct it?Njaohnt (talk) 00:32, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  error correction 

message: From an undated - probably 1980s - official map of Canada:
*1, Victoria to Ontario
*17, Manitoba to Sudbury
*69, Sudbury to Coldwater
*12, Coldwater to Sunderland
*7, Sunderland to Ottawa
*17 (not 417!), Ottawa to Quebec
*40, Ontario to Montreal
*unknown through Montreal
*20, Montreal to Riviere-du-Loup
*185, Riviere-du-Loup to New Brunswick
*2, Quebec to Nova Scotia
*104, New Brunswick to Mulgrave
*105, Mulgrave to North Sydney
*1, Channel-Port aux Basques to St. Johns
And a spur:
*16, Sackville to Cape Tormentine
*1, Borden to at Wood Islands
*106, Caribou to New Glasgow
There are no shields of any sort on the Charlottetown-New Glasgow piece, but an inset map of the main highways bolds only the TCH, and bolds this. --SPUI (T - C) 00:13, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "The Governments of Canada and New Brunswick are each contributing $10 million to twin 12 kilometres of Route 95 between Woodstock and the U.S. border into a four-lane divided highway, linking the Trans-Canada Highway to the border crossing."
--SPUI (T - C) 23:23, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Original route

message: Since the route of the TCH is described in this article going eastbound, any such pictures should show the eastbound direction as well.  Denelson83  07:42, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Now that would be POV... literarily  --66.82.9.49 15:10, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Driver's-eye-view pictures of highway 

message: This article is so lacking! -b 04:42, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it definately needs to be expanded. It would also be nice to see where the highway is 4 lanes and where it is only 2 lanes. Suoerh2 08:04, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History, politics, construction 

message: Is there a source for "except residents of PEI who are known to refer to 'The One'?" I'm unfamilliar with this reference. --Nullhyp 10:32, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: My delete key itches when I look at the trivia section. I really needs sourcing and integration into the article. — Saxifrage ✎ 19:09, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia re:name 

message: The status of Terry Fox overlooking the highway and the lake does not mark the spot where he ended his run. He ended the run about 5km east, in Shuniah. It is marked by a small white sign, originally placed by the province but maintained by a local individual. Vidioman 00:42, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Winnipeg-Ottawa re: Terry Fox 

message: In 1965, there were two routes in Ontario, between Ottawa and Sudbury: the Ottawa Valley Route (17) and Central Ontario Route/Georgian Bay Route (7/12/103/69, changing name at Orillia).
Other routes appear to be:
*Lake Superior Route (Highway 17, Sudbury to Manitoba)
*Northern Ontario Route (Highway 11, North Bay to Nipigon; spur on Highway 66 to Quebec)
*Voyageur Route (Highways 11 and 71, west of Thunder Bay to east of Kenora): no longer signed
--NE2 11:53, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes about branches

message: The following section is an absolute, unadulterated piece of poorly-organized crap. I've removed it from the article for the time being, but am placing it here so that if somebody is prepared to put some work into making it readable, they have access to the information. Bearcat (talk) 05:49, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Quality

message: I changed the intro from saying that it is the "third longest national highway", after the Trans-Siberian Highway and Highway 1 (Australia), to "one of the world's longest national highways", due to a number of sources (see Google Books search) that state the Trans-Canada as the longest. -M.Nelson (talk) 02:52, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Longest national highway" 

message: I see that National Highway System (Canada) redirects here. However, the Trans-Canada Highway is not Canada's National Highway System (NHS). It forms a part of the system, not the system as a whole. See Transport Canada's NHS web page, particularly the NHS Map. Hwy43 (talk) 06:12, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've long agreed that this was overdue, but have never had the gumption to really tackle it — but I've now finally started a basic article on the NHS itself at the National Highway System (Canada) title. Bearcat (talk) 06:32, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Hooray! Thanks for starting. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 06:46, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not Canada's National Highway System 

message: :The Trans-Canada Highway has been posted in kilometres since 1977, when all Canadian roads switched to metric.
The exit numbers on the highway are kilometres in Ontario (starting at Hawkesbury-Rigaud and ascending westward), Québec (starting at Hawkesbury-Rigaud and ascending eastward) and New Brunswick (starting at Edmunston and ascending eastward) but I'd suspect Nova Scotia is still using a sequential numbering system (starting Amherst, extending eastward) where the exit number is *not* the number of kilometres from the provincial border - much like 401 exits were once sequentially numbered instead of numbered on the basis of distance (the 401 was renumbered in the Trudeau era so that the exit number is the kilometre distance from Détroit).  66.102.83.61 (talk) 19:07, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears the excerpt you extracted from the article has nothing to do with exit numbers. I interpret the excerpt, within the context of the section, as relating to posted distances along the highway. Hwy43 (talk) 04:27, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  kilometres, "zero" point and numbering 

message: "Completion of this upgrade is scheduled for winter 2010." is out-of-date. I'm not sure weather it got upgraded or not. Njaohnt (talk) 00:24, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Out-of-date 

message: Isn't Nunavut a province? · rodii · 02:15, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a territory.  They wanted to be a province, but Ottawa was having nunavut. The Interior (Talk) 02:18, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: FOGHORN! ;o) Hwy43 (talk) 09:55, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "All ten provinces" 

message: :If the map is redone, I would like to burn the existing one and trout whomever was brilliant enough to have the background of Canada be a greyscale gradient, and the edges have shadows and some 3D edges. *shudders* - Floydian τ ¢ 17:27, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map is wrong 

message: I restored the Jurisdiction section as most of the information in (such as the route numbering) is already proved by the obviously common fact text in the route description, which falls under citing that the sky is blue. In any case, the links to the various provincial highway articles provide the needed proof to back up the section. Whatever isn't common fact could be deleted or references found (which is why I also restored the reference tag), but the section contains too much information about the oddities of the highway system relative to other national systems to simply be swept under the carpet. Transportfan70 (talk) 00:23, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jurisdiction  

message: the section that covers Vancouver Island is mostly wrong. Whoever wrote it clearly doesn't live here or hasn't in this century. 2604:3D08:1B84:A900:80DB:2489:DC72:D548 (talk) 07:36, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  incorrect information 

message: You have that the highway goes through 9 of 10 provinces but, there are 10 provinces and the highway goes through them all. 188.149.56.32 (talk) 20:35, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you are talking about this passage: '...the term "Trans-Canada Highway" often refers to the main route that consists of Highway 1 (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba), Highway 17 and 417 (Ontario), Autoroute 40, 20 and 85 (Quebec), Highway 2 (New Brunswick), Highway 104 and 105 (Nova Scotia) and Highway 1 (Newfoundland). This route starts in Victoria and ends in St. John's, passes through nine of the ten provinces...' This is correct - this "main route" does not involve PEI. PEI has a spur section of TCH but is not on this so-called "main route". Do you have a suggestion on how to word it more clearly? Indefatigable (talk) 01:00, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I understood it, but to pander to those that don't, bam. A quick peer review for any errors would be appreciated as it is late. Hwy43 (talk) 07:42, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  It is all 10 provinces and not only 9 provinces 

message: The trans Canada does NOT start in Victoria, it starts much further north in my town of Nanaimo.  Specifically at Departure Bay in central Nanaimo, so please fix that.(Jcqpoier (talk) 06:18, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope. It ferries from the mainland to Nanaimo and then proceeds south to end at Victoria. Hwy43 (talk) 06:45, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect information 

message: We read
: An 83-kilometre (52 mi) segment of the Trans-Canada Highway between Thunder Bay and Nipigon is commemorated as the Terry Fox Courage Highway. Fox was forced to abandon his cross-country Marathon of Hope run here, and a bronze statue of him was later erected in his honour. The highway is the only road that connects eastern and western Canada. On January 10, 2016, the Nipigon River Bridge suffered a mechanical failure, closing the Trans-Canada Highway for 17 hours; the only alternative was to go through the United States, around the south side of Lake Superior.
I only see a 20 km segment, from jct 11 & 17, to jct 11 & 102, as being the real "only road" portion. Jidanni (talk) 07:40, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The only road that connects eastern and western Canada 

message: "The maximum speed limit on the Quebec Autoroute System (including the TCH) is a strictly enforced 100 km/h (62 mph)."
I believe that "a strictly enforced" should be removed, since it is unnecessary, there's no source for that claim, and it is false. The speed limit isn't enforced under 120 km/h unless other infractions are commited. Siberys (talk) 21:35, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speed limit in Quebec 

message: "Although the TCH network is strictly a transcontinental system, and does not enter any of Canada's three northern territories or run to the United States' border,"
Should we also mention that it does not enter the region of Labrador? It does enter the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, but only the island region of Newfoundland, not the continental region of Labrador.
I know that it obviously does not enter a lot of regions in each province, especially the northern regions of Quebec and the Prairie provinces, but I somewhat feel Labrador not being connected is noteworthy.
I know that Labrador is incredibly sparsely populated, with over 90% of the province's population living on Newfoundland, but still.
I would also just like to say I am not from either part of the province, so this isn't a suggestion made out of regional pride. SteelTitan121 (talk) 12:45, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Labrador