WINDSOR, N.S. — Highway twinning work underway in and around Windsor will continue throughout the winter.
Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal spokesperson Marla MacInnis recently confirmed that the Highway 101 twinning project spanning from Three Mile Plains to Falmouth is expected to wrap up in the fall of 2022.
The $151.6-million Hants County project was on budget as of Nov. 19, MacInnis said.
A 9.5-kilometre stretch known as Windsor’s causeway is included in the twinning plans.
It is one of four twinning projects underway in Nova Scotia following province-wide consultations conducted in 2017, MacInnis said.
“Nearly 2,000 Nova Scotians took part in the public sessions and feedback was also received from close to 5,400 people through online submissions. Throughout the consultations, we heard loud and clear was Nova Scotians want better and safer 100 series highways,” wrote MacInnis via email.
“We also heard very clearly that they want improvements without tolls. Government committed to that in 2017.”
The department is also twinning a 22-kilometre stretch of Highway 103 spanning from Tantallon to Hubbards, and 38-kilometre section of Highway 104 that runs from Sutherlands River to Antigonish.
MacInnis noted that the construction of a four-lane Sackville-Bedford-Burnside Connector between Burnside and Bedford, along a 8.7-kilometre strip of Highway 107, was also identified as a priority project.
“Given the financial constraints of the province, and the price tag of over $2 billion to complete all of the 100-series sections that were desired, government committed to targeted highway upgrades and twinning in areas the public said we need the most,” she said.
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