Alberta Highway 28A

Highway 28A
Highway 28A highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by Alberta Transportation
Length:	17.71 km (11.00 mi)
Major junctions
South end:	Hwy 15 in Edmonton
	Hwy 37 near Ft. Saskatchewan Hwy 643 in Gibbons
North end:	Hwy 28 near Gibbons
Location
Specialized and rural municipalities:	Sturgeon County
Major cities:	Edmonton
Towns:	Gibbons
Highway system
Provincial highways in Alberta National Highway System ← Hwy 28 Hwy 29 →

Route map: / Google

Provincial highways in Alberta

Alberta Provincial Highway No. 28A, commonly referred to as Highway 28A, is an 18-kilometre (11 mi) highway in Alberta, Canada that connects Highway 15 in northeast Edmonton to Highway 28 near Gibbons. It is numbered 17 Street NE within Edmonton and forms an alternate route to Highway 28 into the city from the north. As the southern most component of the Edmonton–Fort McMurray corridor, the highway is designated as a core route of Canada's National Highway System for its entire length.

Highway 28A began as a gravel road in the 1930s, formerly designated as Highway 37 which it now intersects at the north Edmonton city limit. Alberta Transportation has plans to upgrade Highways 28, 28A and 63 to a divided highway, with long term plans for a freeway between Edmonton and Fort McMurray.

Like most rural two-lane highways in Alberta, Highway 28A is not a controlled-access highway, as numerous driveways and local roads intersect it at-grade. Nevertheless, it forms part of the Edmonton-Fort McMurray corridor and is designated as a core route of the National Highway System. Highway 28A begins at an intersection in northeast Edmonton where it splits to the north from Manning Drive (Highway 15) near 227 Avenue. As 17 Street NE, the two-lane highway proceeds through rural residential and agricultural lands north Edmonton for approximately 3.5 km (2 mi) before it reaches Highway 37 and crosses into Sturgeon County. It continues north to the town of Gibbons in which it intersects 50 Avenue and Highway 643 (53 Avenue), approximately 37 km (23 mi) north of downtown Edmonton. A bridge carries a branch of the Canadian National Railway over the highway before it crosses the Sturgeon River on a culvert. While crossing the river, the road briefly widens to a divided highway then immediately terminates at a trumpet interchange with Highway 28.