Lewvan Drive & Pasqua Street

Lewvan Drive & Pasqua Street
Maintained by City of Regina
Length 13.1 km[1] (8.1 mi)
Location Regina
South end Hwy 1 (TCH)
Major
junctions		 Saskatchewan Drive
Dewdney Avenue
Ring Road
North end Hwy 11

Lewvan Drive and Pasqua Street is a major north-south roadway in west Regina, Saskatchewan. The roadway functions at the western portion of Ring Road; however, unlike Ring Road, it is an arterial road with no interchanges.[1]

Route description

Pasqua Street

Pasqua Street is divided into two sections. The northern section is a four lane arterial road that runs north from Sherwood Drive, past Ring Road, to an interchange with Highway 11. North of Highway 11, it leaves Regina and passes through the Sherwood Industrial Park before downgrading to a country road. The southern section of Pasqua Street begins at 3 Avenue N (one block south of Sherwood Drive), and is residential street that continues south to Wintergreen Estates (located just north of the Trans-Canada Highway), where it becomes Koester Road. The southern section is discontinuous, divided by two railways and Evraz Place (formerly known as Regina Exhibition Park).[1] Pasqua Street is named after Chief Joseph Pasqua, a Plains Cree chief of the Qu'Appelle Valley in the mid-19th Century. Pasqua is a Cree word for prairie.[2]

Lewvan Drive

Lewvan Drive is a four lane arterial road that begins at an interchange with the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1), travels north past the Regina International Airport, and ends at Sherwood Drive where the roadway continues as the northern section of Pasqua Street. Downtown Regina can be accessed via Saskatchewan Drive.[1] Lewvan Drive is named after Lew Van Ostrand, an early settler south of Regina. When the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway arrived in 1911, the company purchased the townsite from Ostrand and combined the first two parts of his name to name the railroad in his honour.[2]

History

Pasqua Street originally ran continuous as a collector road through western Regina,[3] but as the city grew it did not have the capacity to function as a major north-south artery. The Lewvan Expressway (later renamed Lewvan Drive) was constructed along a former CN rail line which ran parallel to Pasqua Street, allowing for limited access and grade-separated railway crossings, and was completed in 1984.[4] As part of the project, at-grade railway crossings along Pasqua Street were closed resulting in it being segmented.[3]

Major intersections

From south to north. The entire route is in Regina.

km[1]miDestinationsNotes
0.00.0Service RoadSouthern terminus of Lewvan Drive
0.350.22 Hwy 1 (TCH Bypass) – Moose Jaw, WinnipegInterchange
0.90.56Harbour Landing Drive
1.30.81Gordon Road
2.01.2Jim Cairns Boulevard
2.61.6Parliament Avenue
4.62.9 Regina Avenue – Regina International Airport
5.13.2Crosses Wascana Creek
5.83.613th Avenue
6.03.7Saskatchewan Avenue – Mosaic Stadium, City Centre
6.44.011th Avenue – Evraz Place
6.94.3Dewdney Avenue – RCMP Academy (Depot Division)
7.24.57th Avenue
7.74.84th Avenue
8.65.31st Avenue N
9.15.7Sherwood Drive
Lewvan Drive north end • Pasqua Street south end
9.76.0Stapleford Crescent, Donahue Avenue
10.16.39th Avenue N, Ring Road
10.76.6Pasqua Gate
11.57.1Rochdale Boulevard
12.17.5Junor Drive
13.18.1 Hwy 11 (Louis Riel Trail) – Saskatoon, To Hwy 6 southInterchange
Pasqua Street continues north into R.M. of Sherwood No. 159
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  •       Route transition

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Google (September 1, 2017). "Lewvan Drive and Pasqua Street in Regina, SK" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Street Where You Live List" (XLS). City of Regina. December 23, 2013. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Regina Complimentary City Guide and Map (Map). City of Regina: Department of Public Relations. 1978.
  4. ↑ "Profile of our Capital City" (PDF). City of Regina. March 2007. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
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