Equestria Hwy 86 & Griffionstone Hwy 86 & Trans-Equestria Hwy (Hwy 17) (Equestria & Griffionstone Fwys)

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Equestria Provincial Highway 86 & 17, commonly referred to as Highway 86 & Highway 17 or Equestria Freeway, is a major east-west highway in northern Equestria (province), Equestria that forms a portion of the Trans-Equestria Highway. It runs from the U.S / Equestria border near Finnckville, NY through Canterlot to the Griffionstone border east of Manehattan.

Griffionstone Provincial Highway 86 & 17, commonly referred to as Highway 86 & Highway 17 or Griffion Freeway, is a major east-west highway in northern Griffionstone (province), Equestria that forms a portion of the Trans-Equestria Highway. It runs from the Equestria (province) border near Manehattan, Equestria north of  Griffionstone (city) to the U.S / (Equestria) Griffionstone border east of Griffionstone.

Both the Equestria province and Griffionstone province parts of the route were originally called just Highway 17 (Equestria Hwy 17 and Griffionstone Hwy 17) back when the highway was just a two-lane surface road. In 1999, the highway was upgraded to be a controlled-access road to match with the U.S portions of NY Route 17 as it was upgraded to Interstate 86. Along with this the highway in both Equestria and Griffionstone provinces had another number assigned to them, which was Equestria Highway 401 & Griffionstone Highway 401. The number was chose as to match with the country's new rule set that all controlled-access roads will have a 400 number, Princess Routes or "400-series" routes and other Equestria routes were modeled after Ontario Canada's highways.

In Jan 2018, Equestria redid their highway numbering and the road was renumbered to Equestria Highway 86 and Griffionstone Highway 86. See more info on by seeing Equestria Highway renumbering 2018. 

History

Long ago, the when the original New York State Route 17 was built, the route was built through Equestria as a two lane route with the number of Equestria Highway 17 and Griffionstone Highway 17. When the NY 17 road was upgraded to a expressway, the segments in Equestria stayed the same. In 2015, the route through Equestria was upgraded to a expressway. 

The route kept the Equestria Highway 17 number on it and got the official name Trans - Equestria Highway. When the Interstate 86 number was applied to the NY 17 segments in the United States, Equestria decided to follow along and add a new number to the route, at this time the Twilight Sparkle Tollway (EQ Hwy 476) was under construction and also needed a number, so Equestria DOT decided to follow the same numbering as Ontario, Canada does for expressways and chose the number Equestria Highway 401 for the route. Also since part of the route was in the Griffionstone Province of Equestria, that segment became Griffionstone Highway 401.  

In Jan 2018, Equestria renumbered its highways with all routes getting a number to match its US highway connection (if it connected to the US). Equestria dropped the "400 series" numbers for controlled-access roads and instead now has different shields for freeways, regular roads and toll roads. So with this Hwy 401 became Equestria Highway 86 and Griffionstone Highway 86 to match the U.S Interstate 86 number. 

Exit Guide

For the routes on each end at the U.S border, see : Interstate 86 (Beautiful Tempest Shadow Fwy & ACRacebest Freeway) and New York State Route 17