100-series highways (Nova Scotia)

Highway system in Nova Scotia Nova Scotia 100-series highways 65px 65px Standard highway markers for Nova Scotia Nova Scotia 100-Series-Map.png Map of the system Arterial (100-series) highways Nova Scotia Highway 1XX (Hwy 1XX) NS The 100-Series highways are a series of arterial highways in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. A 100-series highway is a designation applied to a highway that can be a controlled-access expressway, Super-2, or fully divided freeway. The designation can also be applied in some cases to sections of uncontrolled access roads which are deemed strategically important and which will be upgraded in the future to controlled-access. These highways connect major population centres such as the Halifax Regional Municipality and Cape Breton Regional Municipality with smaller population centres such as Yarmouth, Truro, New Glasgow and Amherst, as well as the neighbouring province of New Brunswick. Nova Scotia Road Map 2019 1:640,000 Province of Nova Scotia en Some of the 100-series highways also carry the Trans-Canada Highway designation on their routes. The typical naming convention is to add 100 to a route containing a local trunk highway. E.g. Trunk 3 is a local trunk highway and Highway 103 is the 100-series highway running parallel to Trunk 3 in this corridor. A 100-series freeway is roughly equivalent in function to the 400-series highways of Ontario, Autoroutes of Quebec, or the Interstate Highway System of the United States, albeit on a much reduced scale and amount of traffic. Many of these highways were developed during the 1960s–1990s as political projects and proved detrimental to rural railway service in the province, resulting in many rail line abandonments. Route list local km local NS Hwy 101 308.5 Trunk 3 in Yarmouth Hwy 102 / Trunk 1 in Lower Sackville Harvest Highway 1962 Passes through the Annapolis Valley and Digby. local NS Hwy 102 100.8 Halifax Hwy 104 in Onslow • Veterans Memorial Highway• Bicentennial Drive 1958 Passes through Bedford, Lower Sackville, and Truro. local NS Hwy 103 291.3 Hardscratch Road in Yarmouth Hwy 102 in Halifax Fishermens' Memorial Highway 1963 Passes through Bridgewater, Liverpool, and Barrington Passage. local NS TCH 104 274.1 New Brunswick border near Fort Lawrence(continues as NB 2) Hwy 105 / Trunk 4 / Trunk 19 in Port Hastings • Trans-Canada Highway• Miners Memorial Highway 1964 Passes through Amherst, Truro, New Glasgow, and Antigonish. local NS Hwy 104 37.3 Trunk 4 near Port Hawkesbury Trunk 4 near St. Peter's 1976 none local NS TCH 105 141.8 Hwy 104 / Trunk 4 / Trunk 19 in Port Hastings Marine Atlantic ferry terminal in North Sydney(continues as NL 1) • Trans-Canada Highway• Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell Way 1970 Ferry connection to Newfoundland and Labrador. local NS TCH 106 19.4 Hwy 104 near New Glasgow Northumberland Ferries terminal in Caribou(continues as PE 1) • Trans-Canada Highway• Jubilee Highway 1968 Ferry connection to Prince Edward Island. local NS Hwy 107 52.1 Hwy 102 near Bedford Trunk 7 in Musquodoboit Harbour 1972 Highway 107 Sackville-Bedford-Burnside Connector (Highway 107 Extension) https://novascotia.ca/tran/highways/hwy107.asp Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal Government of Nova Scotia April 7, 2020 local NS Hwy 111 12.9 Trunk 2 in Halifax Route 322 in Dartmouth • Circumferential Highway• Highway of Heroes 1960 none local NS Hwy 113 9.9 Hwy 103 in Hubley Hwy 102 in Bedford proposed Nova Scotia Transportation & Public Works Focus Report for the Proposed Highway 113 Class I Environmental Assessment https://novascotia.ca/nse/ea/highway113/Hwy113_main_report.pdf Nova Scotia Environment Government of Nova Scotia April 7, 2020 March 2006 none local NS Hwy 118 14.2 Hwy 111 in Dartmouth Hwy 102 near Fall River 1971 The highway has the only collector-express section in Atlantic Canada. local NS Hwy 125 28.3 Hwy 105 near Sydney Mines Trunk 4 in Sydney Peacekeepers Way 1970 Passes through North Sydney. local NS Hwy 142 6.1 Trunk 2 in Springhill Hwy 104 near Springhill 1970 none local NS Hwy 162 8.4 Hwy 105 near Bras d'Or Point Aconi 1978 none unbuilt Historical Note: Nova Scotia's original arterial highway number system had route number signs in the same shape as the U.S. Highway route number signs. These signs are now used for trunk highways. Nova Scotia is planning to convert many 100-series highways to divided 4-lane highways during the 21st century, pending availability of funding. See also Canada Nova Scotia Roads List of Nova Scotia provincial highways 400-series highways (Ontario) 400-series highways (British Columbia) Autoroutes of Quebec References 100