Quebec Route 185

Route 185
Route Transcanadienne
Route information
Maintained by Transports Québec
Length	100 km (62 mi)
Major junctions
South end	Route 2 (TCH) at New Brunswick border (2005)
North end	A-20 (TCH) near Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec (2005)
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Major cities	Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!
Highway system
Trans-Canada Highway Quebec provincial highways Autoroutes List Former
← R-175 → R-191

Route 185 was part of the Trans-Canada Highway, until October 2026, when a multi-decade effort to upgrade the highway into Autoroute 85 reached completion.

Route 185 was a two-lane highway with passing lanes. Often cited as one of the most dangerous highways in Canada, it was upgraded to autoroute standards as a four-lane, fully controlled-access highway, assuming and extending the existing Autoroute 85 designation. This upgrade closed the last gap in a continuous freeway section of the Trans-Canada between Renfrew, Ontario, and Lower South River, Nova Scotia, a length of over 1,500 kilometres (930 mi), and for an even longer interprovincial freeway route between Windsor, Ontario, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, via Toronto and Montreal, a length of about 2,150 kilometres (1,340 mi), roughly playing the same role that the old Quebec Route 2 (which Route 185 was formerly part of) played before its renumbering into several roads in the early 1970s.

See also

• List of Quebec provincial highways

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Quebec Route 185.

• Autoroute 85 at motorways-exits.com
• Interactive Provincial Route Map (Transports Québec) (in French)

Trans-Canada Highway
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