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Abbotsford-Mission Highway Sumas Way | ||||
Route information | ||||
Maintained by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure | ||||
Length | 17 km[1] (11 mi) | |||
Existed | 1958–present | |||
Major junctions | ||||
South end | SR 9 at the Canada–US border | |||
Highway 1 (TCH) in Abbotsford | ||||
North end | Highway 7 in Mission | |||
Location | ||||
Country | Canada | |||
Province | British Columbia | |||
Major cities | Abbotsford, Mission | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Highway 11, known locally as the Abbotsford–Mission Highway, is a 17 km (11 mi) long at-grade expressway (With the southernmost part of the highway two lanes) that figuratively cuts the Fraser Valley in half. The highway was first given the '11' designation in 1958, and it originally followed South Fraser Way through Abbotsford, being re-routed onto the four-lane Sumas Way in the mid-1980s. Highway 11 originally entered Mission over the same bridge that carries a spur of the Canadian Pacific Railway across the Fraser River, but it was re-routed onto its own bridge, the Mission Bridge, in 1973.