New Brunswick Route 1
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| Saint John Throughway, Mackay Highway | ||||
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| Maintained by New Brunswick Department of Transportation | ||||
| Length: | 239.11 km (148.58 mi) | |||
| Existed: | 1927 – present | |||
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| West end: | International Avenue Bridge near Calais, ME | |||
 Route 3 near St. Stephen Route 7 near Saint John Route 10 near Sussex
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 Route 2 (TCH) near Salisbury
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| Major cities: | Oak Bay, Digdeguash, St. George, Pennfield, New River Beach, Pocologan, Lepreau, Musquash, Prince of Wales, Saint John, Rothesay, Quispamsis, Hampton, Norton, St. Stephen, Sussex, Penobsquis, Anagance, Petitcodiac | |||
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Provincial highways in New Brunswick
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Provincial highways in New Brunswick
Former routes
Route 1 is a highway in the southern part of the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It begins in the west from the Canada–United States border at St. Stephen, and runs east for 239.11 kilometres (148.58 mi) to Route 2 at River Glade.
The entire highway is a 4-lane controlled-access freeway (from the Maine border to River Glade).
The majority of road development in New Brunswick follows settlement patterns which pre-dated motor transport, thus most communities developed along navigable waterways or were served by railways. The development of controlled access expressways only began in the 1960s and only around the largest communities. The majority of early provincial highway improvements merely consisted of upgrading local roads.
Route 1 initially followed local roads from St. Stephen eastward to Oak Bay where it swung south to the town of St. Andrews, then back north and east (still along local roads) until reaching Saint John where it followed Manawagonish Road through the former city of Lancaster and was later diverted to follow the "Golden Mile" immediately south of Manawagonish Road. It crossed the Saint John River at the Reversing Falls Bridge before proceeding on Douglas Avenue into the north end of the city. From there it went over to Rothesay Avenue and followed the shores of the Kennebecasis River up the valley to Sussex where it ended. Over time, various sections of 2-lane controlled access highway were built to bypass the growing towns and villages, including a long section bypassing the townships of Rothesay and Quispamsis, named the Mackay Highway, having been built through a stretch of timberland formerly owned by the locally prominent Mackay family.
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