DCHP-2

grid road Grid Road DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• 1 n. — Saskatchewan, Transportation, Automotive

  a road built on a road allowance laid out by the original Dominion Land Survey.

  Type: 1. Origin — The prairie provinces were surveyed as they entered Canada, starting in 1871. The survey laid out road allowances in a regular grid, "two miles apart from north to south and one mile from east to west" ("grid road", Gage-1).
  See also Gage-1, s.v. "grid road", which is marked "Cdn.", ITP Nelson, s.v. "grid road", COD-2 labels the meaning "Sask.".

  See also: correction line  grid (road) system  road allowance  

  • 1954  Kasun - That we make application to the Minister of Dept. of Highways for a special grant of $500 on grid road north of No. 40 highway at Kilwinning [...] 
  • 1957  In its first year, Saskatchewan's 10-year Grid Road Program exceeded expectations both in mileage completed and in the quality of the grid roads constructed. . . .
  • 1958  About 1,300 miles of grid roads will be built in Saskatchewan by the end of this year. . . . This is the third building season of the grid road program, which has seen more than 3,000 miles of road built.
  • 1964  That we apply . . . for $50,000 . . . for the purpose of accelerating and extending additional Grid Road. . . .
  • 1977  The Hunter farm is a mile west along the grid road from the town of Govan and about 70 miles north west of Regina [...].
  • 1985  Jenner said he was approaching the Trans-Canada Highway while driving north on a grid road about 14 km west of Moose Jaw on Jan. 21, 1983, when he saw a two-ton truck coming west. 
  • 1987  Sixteen people, many of them Saskatoon residents, were injured following a two-vehicle collision on a grid road near Christopher Lake Thursday morning. 
  • 1999  Saskatchewan highways and grid roads are renowned for their poor winter driving conditions -- with my 4x4, I can safely drive through most snow drifts [...]. 
  • 2004  The van was discovered on a grid road Saturday morning on the reserve northeast of Regina, only 10 kilometres from where a search for missing five-year-old Tamra Keepness was taking place. 
  • 2008  "I took my 14-year-old daughter driving on a grid road south of Swift Current, should I say that? She was driving for a while. She did just fine," Mr. Wall told about 2,000 delegates at the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities convention. 
  • 2015  The hamlet of Cedar Villa is reeling after a longtime resident was struck by a vehicle and killed while jogging with his dog on a grid road not far from his home. Police responded after the 59-year-old man, whose name was not released, was hit on a road southwest of Saskatoon around 1:40 p.m. Monday. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Ross Harwood, chair of the Cedar Villa Estates Community Association, said the man will be missed by the community of about 120 people. 

• 2 n. — especially Saskatchewan, Transportation

  a road network that runs along a grid system.

  Type: 5. Frequency — The expression is most frequently used in Canada (see Chart 1), which mostly stems for its use on the Prairies, especially in Saskatchewan. However, outside the prairie provinces, the grids are of varying sizes and date from many periods.
  See COD-2, which marks the meaning as "Cdn".

  • 1977  The limits would apply on municipal roads and Class 5 highways, which include grid roads taken into the highway system. The rules would be consistent with load limits now in effect on secondary highways, with the exception of the 58,000-pound limit on five-axle semi-trailer trucks and larger units.
  • 1984  The typical Canadian city built before the Second World War seems held together by a grid road system with short rectangular blocks. 
  • 1988  In the greater Toronto area, for instance, more than 90 per cent of the urban land mass is suburban in nature, and less than 10 per cent is in the traditional city style of grid road pattern, small blocks, mixed uses and bustling street life. 
  • 1996  Within Metro, a well-designed urban structure, grid road network and public-transit system support the mix of residential and commercial uses essential both to its bustling downtown core and to its thriving neighbourhoods. 
  • 2002  Still, our road network does put a lot of eggs in a few baskets. The old-style grid road system found in the older parts of Calgary was more flexible. 
  • 2005  Vancouver also has a grid road system with many quiet side streets that are easily turned into bike routes through the addition of traffic calming devices - an option that is far less expensive than building new bike lanes. 
  • 2013  He recalled that the crowning achievement during his time with Coldstream was the College Way extension (commonly referred to as the Grid Road) that now provides a more direct route between the Okanagan College area and Kalamalka Road. Mayor Jim Garlick says Stamhuis has been a leading contributor to improving various aspects of life for the rural community.