Highway 46 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained byMinistry of Highways and Infrastructure | ||||
| Length | 22 km[1] (14 mi) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end | Ring Road inRegina | |||
| Major intersections | ||||
| East end | ||||
| Location | ||||
| Country | Canada | |||
| Province | Saskatchewan | |||
| Rural municipalities | Sherwood,Edenwold | |||
| Major cities | Regina | |||
| Towns | Pilot Butte,Balgonie | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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Highway 46 is aprovincial highway in theCanadian province ofSaskatchewan. It runs from theRing Road atRegina toHighway 1 andHighway 364 nearBalgonie; it is about 22 kilometres (14 mi) long. Highway 46 intersectsHighway 362 andHighway 624 and passes through the communities ofPilot Butte and Balgonie; it is known as McDonald Street within Regina city limits.
The present alignment of Highway 46 used to be the original alignment of Highway 1,[2] but was reverted to a gravel grid road when theTrans-Canada Highway was realigned entering Regina alongVictoria Avenue in the 1950s.[3][4] In the early 1980s, Highway 46 was assigned to the route[5] and was subsequently paved from Regina to Pilot Butte.[6] In the early 1990s, the highway was paved from Pilot Butte to Balgonie. 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 formerProvincial Highway 29 atPlenty, throughRuthilda, to Provincial Highway 1 (present-dayHighway 4) nearBiggar.[7] The route was decommissioned in the 1930s whenHighway 51 was constructed betweenKerrobert and Biggar.[2] A second use was in the 1960s when Highway 46 travelled from Highway 4 nearVal Marie toClaydon;[8] the route became part ofHighway 18 in the 1970s.[4]
From west to east:[9]
| Rural municipality | Location | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City ofRegina | −1.9 | −1.2 | 7th Avenue | McDonald Street western terminus | ||||
| −1.1 | −0.68 | Ross Avenue E | ||||||
| 0.0 | 0.0 | Interchange; Highway 46 western terminus | ||||||
| 2.6 | 1.6 | Fleet Street | ||||||
| Sherwood No. 159 | No major junctions | |||||||
| Edenwold No. 158 | Pilot Butte | 10.8 | 6.7 | |||||
| Balgonie | 21.8 | 13.5 | ||||||
| 22.3 | 13.9 | Interchange; Highway 1 exit 217; Highway 46 eastern terminus; continues as Highway 622 | ||||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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