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NS-111:

NS-111 is the Halifax-Dartmouth Ring Road. It's a complete freeway and connects to the MacKay Bridge. It's mostly known as the “Circ.” or the Circumferential Highway. The posted speed limit on NS-111 is 80 km/h due to the close proximity of interchanges and merging/weaving movements; however, it is almost universally ignored. Although the highway is mostly a freeway, there is a single at grade intersection where left turns are permitted across the highway to access a private driveway. This at-grade, located at the Gaston Road Extension, may be eliminated when a new interchange is built in the area.

NS-111 is 4 lane divided (usually with a concrete barrier, but with a depressed grass median in one area). The area in the middle of the highway near Mic Mac Blvd. is 11 lanes wide. This area is where most of the merging/weaving takes place. There was once a rotary at Mic Mac, but it was removed somewhere around 1988, and replaced with a Parclo. (see pictures below) The southern terminus of 111 is an at grade signalized intersection with Route 322 (Pleasant Street).

The MacKay Bridge (a toll bridge) isn't actually designated as part of 111, although many maps incorrectly show it as such. The bridge is owned by the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission. The bridge itself is un-numbered. The bridge connects directly to Highway 111 on the Dartmouth side, and indirectly to NS-2 on the Halifax side, via a large interchange, and the intersection of Kempt Road and Windsor Street.

Here is a picture of the original Mic Mac rotary:

Here are pictures of the partial cloverleaf interchange that replaced the rotary:

Pictures by the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources.

Sources:
Félix Mathieu-Bégin, Steve Coolen.

Last Updated: 9/20/05

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