Nova Scotia Highway 111
Highway 111 | ||||
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| Highway of Heroes[1] Circumferential Highway | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal | ||||
| Length | 13 km[2] (8.1 mi) | |||
| Existed | 1960–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |  Trunk 2 in Halifax | |||
 Hwy 118 in Dartmouth  Trunk 7 / Route 318 in Dartmouth | ||||
| East end |  Route 322 in Dartmouth | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | Canada | |||
| Province | Nova Scotia | |||
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Highway 111 is a 13-kilometer (8 mi) controlled-access highway in Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Highway 111 varies in width from 4-12 lanes and is known colloquially as the Circumferential Highway, or, more recently, "the Circ", because it forms a partial orbital road around Dartmouth. The highway runs from Pleasant Street in the neighbourhood of Woodside in the south to the A. Murray MacKay Bridge in the north.
It serves as a key transportation link for Dartmouth and Halifax. The section from Highway 118 (Woodland Avenue) to the MacKay Bridge was constructed at the same time as the bridge, opening in 1970. The portion from Pleasant Street to Woodland Avenue was built in 1960 and was twinned in 1977.
Micmac Rotary
The Micmac (or Mic Mac) Rotary was a traffic circle located at the intersection of Hwy 111 with Route 318 (Braemar Drive) and Trunk 7 (Main Street/Prince Albert Road/Grahams Grove). It was named after nearby Lake Micmac, which was partially in-filled to accommodate it. The Micmac Rotary was notorious for rush hour congestion, even resulting in the recording of a song entitled "Mic Mac Rotary Blues".[3]
The rotary was removed during a redesign of the intersection in the late 1980s 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 Micmac to the interchange with Highway 118 is the widest in Atlantic Canada at 10-12 lanes.
Highway of Heroes
On May 22, 2013 Highway 111 was officially named "Highway of Heroes" by Premier Darrell Dexter.
Exit list
The entire route is located in Halifax Regional Municipality.
| Location | km[2] | mi | Exit | Destinations | Notes | ||
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Continues as  Windsor Street (Trunk 2 south) to Hwy 102 | |||||||
| Halifax Peninsula | 0.0 | 0.0 | Trunk 2 north (Bedford Highway) / Lady Hammond Road – Bedford | At-grade | |||
| 0.5 | 0.31 | — | Robie Street | Access via Massachusetts Avenue | |||
| 0.8 | 0.50 | — | Barrington Street | ||||
| Halifax Harbour | 1.4– 2.6 | 0.87– 1.6 | A. Murray MacKay Bridge | ||||
| Dartmouth | 3.2 | 2.0 | Toll booth | ||||
| 3.3 | 2.1 | (1) | Princess Margaret Boulevard | ||||
| 3.9 | 2.4 | 2 |  Victoria Road (Route 322) to Trunk 7 west / Hwy 101 – Downtown, Bedford, Lower Sackville | Signed as exits 2E (Route 322) and 2W (To Trunk 7 / Hwy 101) | |||
| 5.1 | 3.2 | 3 | Highfield Park Drive – Burnside Industrial Park | ||||
| 6.6 | 4.1 | 4 |   Hwy 118 to Hwy 107 / Hwy 102 / Woodland Avenue – Airport, Truro | Signed as exits 4S (south) and 4N (north) northbound; no northbound entrance from Hwy 118 north (Woodland Avenue) | |||
| 7.5 | 4.7 | 5 | Micmac Boulevard | ||||
| 8.3 | 5.2 | 6 | Prince Albert Road / Main Street (Trunk 7) to Hwy 107 / Braemar Drive (Route 318 north) – Waverley, Eastern Shore | Signed as exits 6A (west) and 6B (east) southbound | |||
| 9.0 | 5.6 | — | Gordon Avenue | Northbound exit only; no signage | |||
| 9.9 | 6.2 | 7 |  Portland Street (Route 207) / Woodlawn Road – Downtown Dartmouth, Cole Harbour | Signed as exits 7W (west) and 7E (east) southbound | |||
| 11.6 | 7.2 | 8 | Mount Hope Avenue – Woodside Industrial Park | ||||
| 12.9 | 8.0 | Pleasant Street (Route 322) | At-grade | ||||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||||
See also
References
- ^ "Highway 111 near Halifax renamed Highway of Heroes - Local - the News". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
- ^ a b Google. "Highway 111 in Nova Scotia" (Map). Google Maps. Google.
- ^ "NS Classic Rock Discography - 45 rpm". Retrieved 2009-05-30.