Editing Trans-Canada Highway (section)

==Highway design and standards==
Unlike the [[Interstate Highway System]] in the United States, the Trans-Canada Highway system has no national construction standard, and it was originally built mostly as a two-lane highway with few multi-lane [[freeway]] sections, similar to the older [[United States Numbered Highway System]]. As a result, highway construction standards vary considerably among provinces and cities. In much of British Columbia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador, the Trans-Canada Highway system is still in its original two-lane state. British Columbia is{{When|date=May 2024}} actively working on converting its section of Highway&nbsp;1 east of [[Kamloops]] to a four-lane [[divided highway]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=September 12, 2019 |title=Highway 1 - Kamloops to Alberta - Four Laning - Province of British Columbia |url=https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation-projects/highway1-kamloops-alberta |access-date=March 19, 2024 |website=www2.gov.bc.ca |publisher=BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure |archive-date=April 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417150049/https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation-projects/highway1-kamloops-alberta |url-status=live }}</ref> Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba have widened most of their southern Trans-Canada Highway network to four lanes. In Quebec, most sections of the TCH network overlap with the province's [[Autoroutes of Quebec|Autoroute]] freeways. New Brunswick is the only province to have its whole length of the main Trans-Canada Highway route at a four-lane freeway standard.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024|reason=can find lots of sources saying it's fully divided, but not limited access}}

Like the former [[U.S. Route 66]], the many non-expressway sections of the Trans-Canada Highway often form the [[Main Street|main streets]] of communities, with homes and businesses directly adjacent to the Trans-Canada Highway.

The Trans-Canada Highway is not always the preferred route between two cities, or even across the country. For example, the vast majority of traffic travelling between [[Hope, British Columbia|Hope]] and Kamloops, British Columbia, takes the [[British Columbia Highway 5|Coquihalla Highway]] via [[Merritt, British Columbia|Merritt]], rather than the longer Trans-Canada Highway route.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}} Another example is that much long-distance traffic between Western and Eastern Canada will drive south into the United States and use the Interstate Highway System, rather than the Trans-Canada Highway through [[Northern Ontario]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}