Nova Scotia Highways

• Long-awaited highway project to ease Burnside traffic set to be completed in 2024

  A long-awaited highway project to ease traffic through Burnside is set to be completed in 2024. The Burnside Connector was approved in 2018.

  Traffic

  Jan 26
  
• Nova Scotia budgeting $500 million for highway projects, improvements in 2024-25

  The investment will fund projects already underway, with about $295 million going to design work, road and bridge improvements and equipment.

  Politics

  Dec 14, 2023
  
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• Nova Scotia plans to spend more than $1 billion on roads and bridges by 2030

  The Nova Scotia government plans to spend more than $1 billion over the next seven years on highways, bridges and ferry services.

  Canada

  Jan 6, 2023
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• ‘Flying ice’ from uncleaned vehicle causes significant damage for N.S. driver

  A Nova Scotia woman is sharing her experience with a dangerous encounter that resulted from a piece of flying ice that wasn't properly cleared off another vehicle.

  Canada

  Feb 8, 2022
• Nova Scotia to spend nearly $500 million this year on roads, highways and bridges

  he plan calls for 11 major construction projects in 2021-22, with the focus on the ongoing twinning of Highways 101, 103, 104 and Highway 107.

  Canada

  Jan 27, 2021
• Nova Scotia to spend $300 million to improve roads and bridges in 2019-20

  Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal Minister Lloyd Hines says much of the additional funding will go toward twinning portions of the province's 100 series highways, including the 101, 103, 104 and the 107 Sackville-Burnside connector.

  Canada

  Dec 18, 2018
• Nova Scotia unlikely to remove all tolls on Cobequid Pass: minister

  Lloyd Hines says maintenance and capital costs will fall to all provincial taxpayers if tolls are entirely removed from the stretch of highway.

  Politics

  Jan 19, 2018
• Tolling Nova Scotia highways will allow twinning ‘decades earlier’: province

  The Nova Scotia government is proposing tolls to pay for half the cost of twinning eight sections of highway across the province.

  Politics

  Jan 23, 2017
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• ‘Going backwards’: N.S. fire chief’s petition to twin Highway 104 denied

  Joe MacDonald says his petition, containing 6,542 names, isn't worded properly to be presented to government, and therefore is invalid.

  Canada

  Nov 2, 2016
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• Fire chief calls for 100 series highways in Nova Scotia to be twinned

  A crash on Monday claimed the life of a 35-year-old Halifax woman near Broadway in Pictou County.

  Traffic

  May 24, 2016