Nova Scotia Highway 111

Highway 111
Highway 111
Highway of Heroes; Circumferential Highway
Route information
	Maintained by Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal
Length	13 km (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
Highway system
	Provincial highways in Nova Scotia; 100-series;

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.

Micmac Rotary edit

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 edit

On May 22, 2013 Highway 111 was officially named "Highway of Heroes" by Premier Darrell Dexter.

Exit list edit

The entire route is located in Halifax Regional Municipality.

Location	km^[2]	mi	Exit	Destinations	Notes
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 Incomplete access Tolled