HALIFAX — Recently the Government of Nova Scotia released its five-year highway improvement plan, which showcases more than $500 million in 2025-26 for major highway and road projects, repaving, bridge replacements, capital maintenance and infrastructure work.
Work will begin on two new major projects: the Port Hastings intersection in Inverness County and passing lanes between exits 18 and 19 (Lake Echo/Mineville and Porters Lake) on Highway 107 in Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), a release states.
Work will continue on the:
- Seal Island Bridge rehabilitation (Victoria County)
- Highway 103 Argyle interchange (Yarmouth County)
- Highway 103 twinning from Hubbards to East River (Lunenburg County)
- Highway 104 twinning from Taylors Road to Paqtnkek (Antigonish County)
- Highway 107 twinning from Burnside to Lake Loon (HRM)
- Highway 102 Aerotech Connector (HRM).
Work on infrastructure upgrades for the Tancook Ferry in Lunenburg County will also continue.
The plan also includes access improvements for 100-series highways that are not being twinned, including improving intersections and adding passing lanes, turning lanes and roundabouts.
In all the five-year plan maps out the government’s approach, year by year, to repair and maintain the province’s 23,000 kilometres of roads and highways and 4,100 bridges.
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