Posted: Jul 08, 2021 9:04 PM AT | Last Updated: July 9
The $151-million Highway 101 twinning project could be pushed back a year unless a decision is made on fish passage in the Avon River in Windsor, N.S.(Paul Withers)
Completion of the $151-million Highway 101 twinning project in Nova Scotia could be pushed back a year unless there is a decision soon on fish passage in the Avon River at Windsor, the province warned Thursday.
Transportation Minister Lloyd Hines said the project is already a couple of months behind schedule because there is no agreement on what will replace the existing causeway and an aboiteau over the river. It is the last section in the 10-kilometre twinning.
Halifax building damaged by crane collapse gets new tongue-in-cheek name
An apartment building in downtown Halifax that was under construction when a crane crashed down on it during a storm in 2019 will open for rentals in May under a new tongue-in-cheek name. The building on South Park Street, which was to originally be called the Olympus, is now called the Crane.
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The Canadian Press February 1, 2021
HALIFAX Nova Scotia says it will spend nearly $500 million this fiscal year to improve and upgrade the province’s roads, highways and bridges.
Transportation Minister Lloyd Hines said in a news release the province’s five-year highway improvement plan includes more than 150 major construction and improvement projects for 2021-22.
Hines says spending on roads and bridges is an “investment in public safety.”
The 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.
Other work involves improving intersections, constructing passing and turning lanes and building new interchanges and roundabouts.
The province says it will spend $500 million to improve and upgrade roads, highways and bridges this year.
A Five-Year Highway Improvement Plan released today includes more than 150 construction and improvement projects for the coming year.
The projects include the continued construction of rotaries to Weidner Drive on King’s Road in Sydney as well as a new Mira Gut bridge.
Intersection improvements at Seaside Drive and Gardiner Road are also on the list, and the Department of Transportation plans to repave sections of the 125 Sydney Bypass, the Sydport Access Road and Caribou Marsh Road.
This year’s plan also includes the conversion of the Port Hastings rotary to a roundabout.