Highway 111 | ||||
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Highway of Heroes [1] Circumferential Highway | ||||
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Maintained by Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal | ||||
Length | 13 km [2] (8 mi) | |||
Existed | 1960–present | |||
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Provincial highways in Nova Scotia 100-series
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Highway 111 is a 13-kilometre (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.
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.
On May 22, 2013 Highway 111 was officially named "Highway of Heroes" by Premier Darrell Dexter.
The entire route is located in Halifax Regional Municipality.
Location | km [2] | mi | Exit | Destinations | Notes | ||
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Halifax Peninsula | 0.0 | 0.0 | ![]() | 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 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | 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 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | 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 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | 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 | ![]() | Signed as exits 7W (west) and 7E (east) southbound | |||
11.6 | 7.2 | 8 | Mount Hope Avenue – Woodside Industrial Park | ||||
12.9 | 8.0 | ![]() | At-grade | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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