New Brunswick Route 15

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Route 15
Length:	79.0 km^[1] (49.1 mi)
Formed:	1920s
West end:	Route 106 in Moncton
Major junctions:	Route 2 (TCH) in Dieppe Route 11 in Shediac
East end:	Route 16 (TCH) in Port Elgin
Major cities:	Dieppe, Shediac, Cap-Pele

Route 15 is 79 km long and is in the southeastern corner of the province of New Brunswick. Starting at the north end of the Petitcodiac River Causeway, it loops around the city of Moncton on Wheeler Boulevard, then turns northeast from Dieppe to Shediac. From there, it turns east and bypasses Cap-Pele, then southeast to meet the Trans-Canada Highway at Port Elgin.

All but the last portion east of Cap-Pele is a divided freeway.

Route 15 as it passes outside Shediac, New Brunswick at Exit 37. The image shows the wide median that the Province of New Brunswick generally employs on its divided highways. This portion of highway was completed about 1970, but was not twinned until the early 1990s.

[edit] History

Route 15 only extended from Shediac to Port Elgin until the early 1970s, when the Shediac Four-Lane Highway (the first rural expressway in New Brunswick) was built from Dieppe to Shediac. Its construction was controversial, with critics alleging that it was only built to give Moncton-area politicians better access to their summer cottages in the Shediac area. A two-lane bypass of Shediac itself was built shortly afterward.

The Wheeler Boulevard was developed and constructed through the 1970s and 1980s, and was fully complete by 1989.

The Shediac bypass was twinned in the early 1990s, and a two-lane bypass of Cap-Pele opened to traffic in 1998. Since then it has proven its self to be a most important and beneficial highway a lifeblood giving artery to the rest of southeastern New Brunswick.

[edit] List of interchanges

Location	Exit Number	Intersecting Roads
Moncton	0	Baig Boulevard
Moncton	1	St. George Street
Moncton	3	Killam Drive / Berry Mills Road (Route 128)
Moncton	5	Mountain Road (Route 126)
Moncton	6	Mapleton Road
Moncton	7	Connaught Avenue / Morton Avenue
Moncton	8	Archibald Street / Universite de Moncton
Moncton	9**	Lewisville Road (Route 134)
Moncton (Halls Creek)	9**	Main Street ( Route 106)
Dieppe	10	Paul Street
Dieppe	16	Dieppe Boulevard
Dieppe	17	Greater Moncton International Airport (eastbound only)
Dieppe	19	Route 2
Shediac	31	Route 11 / Scoudouc Road (Route 132)
Shediac	37	Ohio Road (Route 140)
Barachois	43	Route 933
Robichaud	46	Chemin Acadie (Route 133)
Cap-Pele	53	Route 950
Cap-Pele	58**	Chemin Acadie (Route 133)