Manitoba Highway 20A
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Provincial Trunk Highway 20A (PTH 20A) is a 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) long provincial highway spur in the Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 province of Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

. Its main purpose is to provide access to Dauphin
Dauphin, Manitoba
Dauphin is a small city in Manitoba, Canada, with a population of 7,906 as of 2006. The nearby lake was given the name "Dauphin" by the explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye in 1741 in honour of the heir to the French throne...

 for any traffic using PTH 20
Manitoba Highway 20
Provincial Trunk Highway 20 is a provincial highway in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It runs from PTH 5 and PR 582 just south of Ochre River to PTH 10 in the village of Cowan.PTH 20 begins by turning west toward Dauphin...

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Like most alternate highways, PTH 20A was the original route of PTH 20 before the highway was realigned and redesignated. This highway travels 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) into Dauphin's city center (where it meets the alternate routes of both PTH 5 and PTH 10). From Dauphin's city center, PTH 20A goes 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) back to its terminus with PTH 20.

The speed limit is 50 km/h (31 mph).
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