Nova Scotia Highway 111
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Nova Scotia Highway 111 is a 4-12 lane freeway known informally as the Dartmouth "Circumferential Highway". The highway runs from Pleasant Street in the neighbourhood of Woodside in the south across the A. Murray MacKay Bridge in the north to Halifax and serves as a key transportation link for Dartmouth. The highway from Highway 118 - Woodland Ave. was built at the same time as the MacKay bridge development, opening in 1970. The portion from Pleasant Street to Woodland Ave was built in the mid 1960's and was twinned in 1977.
Access to Highway 102 and 103
Highway 111 oficially extends across the A. Murray MacKay Bridge. Access to Highway 102 is provided indirectly via the A. Murray MacKay Bridge, through the Windsor Street Exchange to Connaught Ave where official signs indicate Highhway 111 inbound or outbound , and onto or from Bayers Rd westbound on the Highway 102, and directional signage to Highway 102 is provided along that route. This was arrange with the former city of Halifax for truck traffic before Highway 118was constructed in the 1970's .Volumues
Traffic volumes on Highway 111 are in excess of 60,000 vehicles per day.
Micmac Rotary
An infamous traffic circle was located at the intersection with Highway 111 and local roads Highway 318 (Braemar Drive/Waverley Road), Highway 7 (Main Street/Prince Albert Road/Graham's Grove Road). Named the "Micmac Rotary" (after nearby Lake Micmac), the rotary was removed during a redesign of the intersection in the early 1990s which saw it replaced by the "Micmac Parclo", which consists of a series of overpasses and controlled access lanes. The resulting roadway through the Parclo and across Lake Mic Mac to the interchange with Highway 118 is the widest in the province at 10-12 lanes.Exits
- Robie Street Exit At the base of A. Murray MacKay Bridge To Highway 2
- Barrington Street Exit At the base of A. Murray MacKay Bridge)
- Princess Margaret Blvd A. Murray MacKay Bridge Tolls (Exit 1)
- Victoria Road Nova Scotia Route 322 (Exit 2)
- Burnside Business Park and Highfield Park (Exit 3)
- Woodland Avenue and Highway 118 (Exit 4)
- Mic Mac Boulevard, leading to Mic Mac Mall (Exit 5)
- Prince Albert Road Highway 7 (Exit 6B)
- Waverly Road Highway 318 (Exit 6B)
- Main Street Highway 7 (Exit 6)
- Portland Street Highway 207(Exit 7)
- Mount Hope Interchange (under construction, scheduled to open 2006)
- Pleasant Street/Woodside Nova Scotia Route 322 (terminus of Highway 111)
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