Transportation in Pictou County, Nova Scotia - Roads in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Highway 104roads in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Highway 104, Samson, Samson (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Roads in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Highway 104, Samson, Northumberland Ferries Limited, Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway, Nova Scotia Trunk 4, Nova Scotia Highway 106, Nova Scotia Route 348, Nova Scotia Route 289, Nova Scotia Trunk 6, Sunrise Trail, Nova Scotia Route 245, Nova Scotia Route 347, Nova Scotia Route 256, Nova Scotia Route 374, Nova Scotia Route 376. Excerpt: Highway 104 in Nova Scotia runs from the New Brunswick border near Amherst to St. Peter's. Except for the portion on Cape Breton Island between Port Hawkesbury and St. Peter's, it is part of the Trans-Canada Highway. Highway 104 mostly supplants the former route of Trunk 4. In 1970, all sections of Trunk 4 west of New Glasgow were renumbered, although the number was added back in the Mount Thom and Wentworth Valley areas in the 1990s when new alignments of Highway 104 opened to traffic. The provincial government named the length of the highway between the New Brunswick border and the Canso Causeway the Miner's Memorial Highway on 8 September 2008 one month before the 50th anniversary of the Springhill Mining Disaster of 23 October 1958. The route is 320 kilometres (199 miles) long, of which the western 177 km (110 miles) is a 4-lane divided freeway. From Amherst, the highway runs east to Oxford, then southeast on a tolled section through the Cobequid Pass that opened in 1997. Tolls for this section are $4 for cars and $3.50 per axle for commercial vehicles. It meets Highway 102 near Truro then turns back northeast past Mount Thom to New Glasgow. East of New Glasgow, the highway becomes 2 lanes and undivided, and portions have no controlled access. There are traffic lights in the Antigonish area, although construction has begun on a four-laned bypass... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2546145