New Brunswick Route 15
Route 15 | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by New Brunswick Department of Transportation | ||||
| Length | 79.0 km[1] (49.1 mi) | |||
| Existed | 1920s–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |   Route 106 / Route 114 in Moncton | |||
 Route 2 (TCH) in Dieppe Route 11 in Shediac | ||||
| East end |  Route 16 (TCH) in Port Elgin | |||
| Location | ||||
| Major cities | Moncton, Dieppe, Shediac, Cap-Pelé | |||
| Highway system | ||||
Provincial highways in New Brunswick Former routes
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→Route 15 is 79 km long and is in the southeastern corner of the province of New Brunswick. Starting at the north end of the Petitcodiac River Causeway, it loops around the city of Moncton on Wheeler Boulevard, then turns northeast from Dieppe to Shediac. From there, it turns east and bypasses Cap-Pelé crossing the Scoudouc River, then southeast to meet the Trans-Canada Highway at Port Elgin. The highway is a divided freeway from Moncton to just east of Shediac, where it remains a controlled-access highway until east of Cap-Pele.
Contents
1 History
2 Major intersections
3 See also
4 References
History
Route 15 as it passes outside Shediac, New Brunswick at Exit 37. The image shows the wide median that the Province of New Brunswick generally employs on its divided highways. This portion of highway was completed about 1970.
Route 15 only extended from Shediac to Port Elgin until the early 1970s, when the Shediac Four-Lane Highway (the first rural expressway in New Brunswick) was built from Dieppe to Shediac. Its construction was controversial, with critics alleging that it was only built to give Moncton-area politicians better access to their summer cottages in the Shediac area[citation needed]. A two-lane bypass of Shediac itself was built shortly afterward.
The Wheeler Boulevard was developed and constructed through the 1970s and 1980s, and was fully complete by 1989.
A two-lane bypass of Cap-Pele opened to traffic in 1998. Since then it has proven itself to be a very dangerous highway artery in southeastern New Brunswick.[citation needed]
In 2012, a section of this highway between Moncton and Shediac was designated "Veteran's Memorial Highway".[2]
Major intersections
The entire route is in Westmorland County.
| Location | km[3] | mi | Exit | Destinations | Notes | |
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| Moncton | 0.0 | 0.0 | Route 106 (Salisbury Road / Main Street) / Route 114 west (Findlay Boulevard) – Salisbury, Riverview, Moncton Centre | Roundabout; eastern terminus of Route 114 | ||
| 0.3 | 0.19 | 0 | Baig Boulevard | At-grade intersection; no access from Baig Boulevard to eastbound Route 15 | ||
| Western end of freeway | ||||||
| 1.4 | 0.87 | 1 | St. George Boulevard | |||
| 3.0 | 1.9 | 3 |  Route 128 (Killam Drive) to Route 2 (TCH) west – Fredericton, Saint John | |||
| 5.4 | 3.4 | 5 |  Route 126 (Mountain Road) – Magnetic Hill | No access from westbound Route 15 to southbound Route 126 | ||
| 6.1 | 3.8 | 6 | Mapleton Road to Route 126 south (Mountain Road) | No access to westbound Route 15 | ||
| 9.0 | 5.6 | 7 | Morton Avenue / Connaught Avenue – Université de Moncton | |||
| 9.9 | 6.2 | 8 | Université Avenue – Université de Moncton | |||
| Eastern end of freeway | ||||||
| 10.6 | 6.6 |  Route 134 (Lewisville Road / Botsford Street) | ||||
| 11.3– 11.8 | 7.0– 7.3 | Route 106 (Main Street) to Route 134 – Dieppe | Roundabout | |||
| Western end of freeway | ||||||
| 12.2 | 7.6 | 10 | Paul Street | |||
| 16.3 | 10.1 | 16 | Harrisville Boulevard / Dieppe Boulevard to  Route 134 – Greater Moncton International Airport, Dieppe | |||
| 18.0 | 11.2 | 17 | Greater Moncton International Airport | Eastbound exit / entrance only | ||
| | 19.4 | 12.1 | 19 | Route 2 (TCH) – Sackville, Nova Scotia, Saint John, Fredericton | ||
| Scoudouc | 26.7 | 16.6 | 26 | Industrial Drive | ||
| Shediac | 32.2 | 20.0 | 31 |  Route 132 south / Route 11 north – Scoudouc, Shediac, Miramichi, Kouchibouguac National Park | Northern terminus of Route 132 / southern terminus of Route 11; exit 0 (Route 11) | |
| 37.6 | 23.4 | 37 |  Route 140 north / Line Road – Shediac, Parlee Beach | Southern terminus of Route 140 | ||
| Grand-Barachois | 43.4 | 27.0 | 43 |   Route 933 to Route 133 – Haute Aboujagane, Grand-Barachois | ||
| Robichaud | 46.0 | 28.6 | 46 | To Route 133 – Cormier Village, Grand-Barachois | ||
| Cap-Pelé | 52.6 | 32.7 | 53 |   Route 950 to Route 133 / Route 945 – Cap-Pelé, St-André-LeBlanc | ||
| Eastern end of freeway | ||||||
| 57.1 | 35.5 | Route 133 west (Acadie Road) | Eastern terminus of Route 133 | |||
| Shemogue | 64.2 | 39.9 |  Route 940 south – Sackville | Northern terminus of Route 940 | ||
| 64.8 | 40.3 | Route 950 west – Petit-Cap | Eastern terminus of Route 950 | |||
| Mates Corner | 69.0 | 42.9 |  Route 955 east – Murray Corner | Western terminus of Route 955 | ||
| Port Elgin | 78.8 | 49.0 |  Route 16 (TCH) / Route 970 south (Shemogue Road) – Sackville, Baie Verte, Prince Edward Island | Roundabout | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
- List of New Brunswick provincial highways
References
Route map:
KML file (edit • help) |
^ New Brunswick Department of Transportation: Designated Provincial Highways, 2003
^ Highway of Heroes planned for New Brunswick, Highway Renaming for Veterans.
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