Victoria Avenue begins as residential collector road in the Cathedral neighbourhood[3] in Regina's old West End at Pasqua Street.
Victoria Avenue continues east through the mature, residential neighbourhood to Albert Street in downtown Regina.
By the 1990s, traffic congestion on Victoria Avenue E (east of Ring Road) had become a major safety concern, and necessitated the study of a new bypass.
The Regina Bypass was opened in October, 2019 and as part of the project the Highway 1 designation was moved from Victoria Avenue to the new route.
[4] In addition, the Highway 11 designation, which previously began at Ring Road and Victoria Avenue and continued north to Saskatoon, was moved to the Regina Bypass on the western edge of the city.