Anthony Henday Drive, designated Alberta Provincial Highway No. 216 by Alberta Transportation, is a ring road highway around Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is currently under construction and named after Alberta explorer Anthony Henday.
Nearly 90% of the road is completed and in use. It starts in east Edmonton at Yellowhead Trail (Highway 16) and travels south to Highway 14, then west past Gateway Boulevard / Calgary Trail (Highway 2) and across the North Saskatchewan River to the Cameron Heights neighbourhood, then north past Whitemud Drive, Stony Plain Road and Yellowhead Trail to Ray Gibbon Drive, and then east past St. Albert Trail and 97 Street to currently end at Manning Drive. The highway designation 216, denotes its bypass linkages to the two major crossroads of Edmonton, Highway 2 and Highway 16. A similar ring road, Highway 201, is also being constructed around the City of Calgary.
The free-flowing northwest leg of Anthony Henday Drive from Yellowhead Trail in the west to Manning Drive in the northeast opened on November 1, 2011. An estimated 40,000 motorists use Anthony Henday Drive daily. Upon completion in 2016, Anthony Henday Drive will be the first free-flowing orbital road in Canada.
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