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Regional Boards => Canada => Topic started by: Dougtone on July 07, 2016, 10:32:28 PM
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Going through some old Vermont road photos, I found a photo that mentioned a possible Autoroute 67. It is very possible that this could just be a misprint, or maybe Quebec was planning to place an Autoroute 67 roughly where Autoroute 35 is today. When I-89 was opened in Highgate Springs, Vermont in 1966, there was a commemoration exhibit that mentioned this (see URL below). I am thinking that this is an error and Autoroute 67 was mentioned because of Expo 67. However, I figured that I'd post this to see if there was indeed supposed to be Autoroute 67, or if it was to be Autoroute 35 all along.
http://glcp.uvm.edu/landscape/search/details.php?imageSet=1467942534-577f0686f0bc0&ls=46772&set_seq=1876&sequence=000 (http://glcp.uvm.edu/landscape/search/details.php?imageSet=1467942534-577f0686f0bc0&ls=46772&set_seq=1876&sequence=000)
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I would believe it is in error, given the grid system established for the Autoroutes.
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Perhaps it was proposed to commemorate Expo ’67 temporarily.
Attendance at Expo was over 50 million, more than double Canada’s population at the time and a lot of visitors would have been from the US…… driving to Montreal.
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Hard to say!
Even in the Quebec former highway numbers, there was no hwy. 67 at all!
The actual QC-133, that connects to I-89, was hwy. 7 in the old system.
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Hard to say!
Even in the Quebec former highway numbers, there was no hwy. 67 at all!
The actual QC-133, that connects to I-89, was hwy. 7 in the old system.
We could wonder if they had once studied the possibility to using new routes numbers for the Quebec Autoroutes? I mentionned the following in another thread
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=2353.msg2301365#msg2301365 old topographic maps of Mount Orford and Lake Memphremagog showing what is now A-55 marked as PQ-91.
http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2703473
http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2703345