AARoads Forum

Regional Boards => Canada => Topic started by: ghYHZ on July 17, 2018, 12:07:40 PM

Title: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: ghYHZ on July 17, 2018, 12:07:40 PM
Justin is here in Antigonish today to announce a $90 million federal contribution for twinning the 38km stretch of Highway 104 between Sutherlands River and the Antigonish Bypass. There's been a lot of preliminary work started but the completion date not until 2024.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ottawa-federal-government-trudeau-twinning-infrastructure-funds-highway-104-1.4749770

Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: MisterSG1 on July 18, 2018, 10:07:03 AM
Quote from: ghYHZ on July 17, 2018, 12:07:40 PM
Justin is here in Antigonish today to announce a $90 million federal contribution for twinning the 38km stretch of Highway 104 between Sutherlands River and the Antigonish Bypass. There's been a lot of preliminary work started but the completion date not until 2024.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ottawa-federal-government-trudeau-twinning-infrastructure-funds-highway-104-1.4749770

How typical, Justine shows up to announce federal monies going towards a highway to nowhere, while not defending our border and those "refugees"  further piling up in the GTA. Yet Justine doesn't want to spend a cent here in the GTA for further uncontrolled population growth further choking our transportation infrastructure.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: AsphaltPlanet on July 18, 2018, 01:51:31 PM
I'm sure the people of Antigonish really appreciate your assertion that the highway that leads to it actually goes to nowhere.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: Stephane Dumas on July 18, 2018, 04:28:46 PM
Some posters on Skyscraperpage forum think it's smells like a buying vote.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: ghYHZ on July 18, 2018, 04:30:38 PM
Quote from: MisterSG1 on July 18, 2018, 10:07:03 AM
How typical, Justine shows up to announce federal monies going towards a highway to nowhere..............

Highway to nowhere? I'm sure Newfoundlanders would appreciate that! Did you take the time to look at a map to see where Highway 104 is? This is the Trans Canada Highway.....handling all traffic to Cape Breton Island and Newfoundland.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: AsphaltPlanet on July 18, 2018, 04:49:30 PM
It's not like Ontario hasn't ever gotten federal funding for twinning it's portion of the TCH either:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/highway-twinning-update-1.4292170

QuoteOn Friday, Ottawa announced it would contribute $83 million towards work to twin three sections of the highway:


  • Coughlin Road westerly to Highway 582, with work beginning in 2019
  • Coughlin Road easterly to Red Rock Road 9, with work beginning in 2019
  • Highway 587 to Pearl Creek, with work beginning in 2018

Those stretches amount to about 26 kilometres of the Trans-Canada Highway.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: MisterSG1 on July 18, 2018, 04:50:49 PM
Quote from: ghYHZ on July 18, 2018, 04:30:38 PM
Quote from: MisterSG1 on July 18, 2018, 10:07:03 AM
How typical, Justine shows up to announce federal monies going towards a highway to nowhere..............

Highway to nowhere? I'm sure Newfoundlanders would appreciate that! Did you take the time to look at a map to see where Highway 104 is? This is the Trans Canada Highway.....handling all traffice to Cape Breton Island and Newfoundland.

I'm well aware of where Antigonish is, prior to the bypass there were a couple of lights and speed limit drop to 50km/h.

I'm just looking at the big picture, the GTA has a transportation crisis on its hands, while the feds don't make individual decisions on roads, they have arguably laid the seeds for the mess to occur, and this all started when Daddy Trudeau was in power.

Just tell me this, what are the AADT values of Hwy 104 and 105 for that matter beyond New Glasgow. You've heard me constantly stress in the past on these forums how I thin a good portion of NB-2 widening was a waste of money as well. Specifically between Grand Falls and Woodstock.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: AsphaltPlanet on July 18, 2018, 05:08:15 PM
Toronto doesn't have a transportation crisis.

Pull your head out of your ass and look at other major North American cities.  They're all the same.  Traffic sucks everywhere.  It's not just here.

The fact that traffic sucks in Toronto doesn't mean other roads in other places shouldn't be improved.

More than that, there are really no easy solutions to deal with traffic in Toronto.  It's not as if a lane could simply be added on the 401 between the 400 and 404 and all the traffic would go away.  More than that, because so much of Toronto's expressway network is at or near capacity that when even additional lanes are added, traffic congestion is more often than not just moved around rather than actually alleviated in any serious way.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: ghYHZ on July 18, 2018, 05:38:50 PM
The problem with this section of the TCH is a disproportionate number of trucks. The railway has been abandoned or out of service east of Port Hawkesbury and most goods for Newfoundland and Cape Breton move by truck now.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: hotdogPi on July 18, 2018, 05:39:37 PM
Quote from: AsphaltPlanet on July 18, 2018, 05:08:15 PM
there are really no easy solutions to deal with traffic in Toronto.

Remove the tolls on 407.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: AsphaltPlanet on July 18, 2018, 06:42:09 PM
^ That's not a realistic solution.  I don't know what the current value of the remaining 407 contract is, but it was estimated at $6 billion about 15 years ago.  It'd probably be $10 billion now.  Plus, there is a reason so many cities are adding tolled capacity.  There is a real relationship between transportation supply and demand.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: MisterSG1 on July 18, 2018, 11:32:39 PM
Quote from: ghYHZ on July 18, 2018, 05:38:50 PM
The problem with this section of the TCH is a disproportionate number of trucks. The railway has been abandoned or out of service east of Port Hawkesbury and most goods for Newfoundland and Cape Breton move by truck now.

If that is the case, then why don't we just bite the whole bullet now and build a freeway right to the boat? I always envisioned such an extension would use Trunk 4 once on Cape Breton and then use Hwy 125 to Hwy 105 to reach North Sydney.

It's been quite a time since I've taken Hwy 104, is the section between Sutherlands River and Antigonish the non-controlled access section, or does that happen after? I recall a bunch of driveways for instance along Hwy 104 either before or after Antigonish when heading east.



As for you AsphaltPlanet, give me some time to work up a rebuttal.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: AsphaltPlanet on July 18, 2018, 11:54:48 PM
^ Save your energy, I'm not interested in debating transportation policy with you.

You might fair better by writing posts that are more constructive in tone.  There are some legitimate criticisms with the funding issues around refugees now living in the GTA, however, AAroads is not the place to discuss them, nor is that funding at all related to federal TCH funding in another province.

Don't write posts like a Fox News correspondent, it doesn't lead to fruitful discussion.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: MisterSG1 on July 19, 2018, 12:08:48 AM
Quote from: AsphaltPlanet on July 18, 2018, 11:54:48 PM
^ Save your energy, I'm not interested in debating transportation policy with you.

You might fair better by writing posts that are more constructive in tone.  There are some legitimate criticisms with the funding issues around refugees now living in the GTA, however, AAroads is not the place to discuss them, nor is that funding at all related to federal TCH funding in another province.

Don't write posts like a Fox News correspondent, it doesn't lead to fruitful discussion.

Fine then, if you don't want to, be that way.

But in my original post, oddly enough, it wasn't roads that was in my original train of thought for transportation infrastructure expansion. I was thinking more on rapid transit and regional rail. Yes, the freeways may be packed, but certain sections of the subway are completely maxed out as well, the Yonge Line is busier than the 4/5/6 services in NYC.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: ghYHZ on July 19, 2018, 06:28:50 AM
Quote from: MisterSG1 on July 18, 2018, 11:32:39 PM
Quote from: ghYHZ on July 18, 2018, 05:38:50 PM
The problem with this section of the TCH is a disproportionate number of trucks. The railway has been abandoned or out of service east of Port Hawkesbury and most goods for Newfoundland and Cape Breton move by truck now.

If that is the case, then why don't we just bite the whole bullet now and build a freeway right to the boat? I always envisioned such an extension would use Trunk 4 once on Cape Breton and then use Hwy 125 to Hwy 105 to reach North Sydney.

Yes....that would be the plan eventually. But like the other TCH twinning projects....the worst areas: traffic volumes or accident prone are being done as the money becomes available.

Did you even read the newspaper article linked at the top here? This portion of the highway has seen a disproportionate number of accidents: 

"Ottawa chips in for Highway 104 twinning along deadly stretch of road"
"Since 2008, there have been more than 400 accidents between Sutherlands River and Antigonish"


Sure there's an election coming but this section has long been designated for twinning and was one of the proposed toll roads in this article from 2015:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/tolls-proposed-for-8-sections-of-4-busiest-nova-scotia-highways-1.3120344

Again....Sutherlands River — Antigonish is mentioned specifically.  Great to sit back at your home in Brampton ON and comment on highways you know nothing about...even applying they go nowhere!  I drive this section nearly every day. I've seen those crashes but luckily have avoided them myself.

In winter it can be sunny in New Glasgow and sunny in Antigonish but you can encounter a snow storm through the gorge at Marshy Hope with its twists and turns and cars all over the road. (This section will be by-passed completely and not just twinned)

I don't complain about my tax money going for projects elsewhere in the country.....and you mention rail:  VIA Rail Canada which my taxes support serves Brampton. They once served Antigonish. We're a University Town.....St.F.X. (St. Francis Xavier) and those students that once took the train are now all out on the 104!

Even our bus service has been cut back and now western Canada will see this with the discontinuance of all Greyhound routes.....so more people on the road!   

Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: MisterSG1 on July 20, 2018, 09:34:27 PM
^ Excuse me?

You have probably seen me say on these forums plenty of times in the past that both of my parents are from Newfoundland, and while it was a yearly drive for me from around 2006 to 2014, I haven't done it recently, but I do remember the road in question quite well.

Highway 104 in Nova Scotia may be a deadly road as they say, but they say the exact same thing about Quebec's Route 185. I thought that was a very deadly road?

Realistically speaking, you and I are in completely different worlds within Canada. Here's just a few interesting tidbits. While it's often said that one state in the US, California, has a larger population than all of Canada, that is definitely true. Ontario has a population that is larger than 45 of the states. Where I live, Brampton, it has a population of close to 600,000. It is part of Peel Region which contains Brampton, Mississauga, and Caledon, just Brampton & Mississauga alone have a population of 1.4 million. This means that these two cities are larger than SIX of the provinces of Canada. Mississauga also has a population very close to all of New Brunswick. City of Toronto itself, let's not even get the GTA into the picture, has a population larger than all of Atlantic Canada combined.

Proportionally speaking, Atlantic Canada receives a lot more federal money than they pay in. cbeach40 put up a figure on another thread that suggests that New Brunswick's per capita's highway budget is twice that of Ontario.


Again, I'd like to know the AADT of this stretch.

If it were mentioned that the feds were gonna throw a billion into building a "Downtown Relief Line" in Toronto, I'm sure you'd hear strong objection from your neck of the woods.

As for VIA Rail, that's not important to this discussion, I was talking about regional rail, which is maintained by the Province of Ontario known as GO Transit. The fact remains that even with the huge population increase, it is still not possible to take a train from Mississauga on the Milton Line into downtown Toronto outside of rush hours whilst Oshawa and Aldershot are served by trains with 30 minute headways 7 days a week. Honestly, Brampton doesn't even need VIA service, and I highly doubt many passengers are traveling to London or Windsor from Brampton.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: AsphaltPlanet on July 20, 2018, 10:01:20 PM
I don't recall there being street protests in Antigonish when the federal government contributed $697 million to build the 8km Toronto York Subway extension that opened last year.

Maybe there would have been more media attention if the street protests hadn't happened in the middle of nowhere.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: MisterSG1 on July 20, 2018, 10:15:13 PM
Quote from: AsphaltPlanet on July 20, 2018, 10:01:20 PM
I don't recall there being street protests in Antigonish when the federal government contributed $697 million to build the 8km Toronto York Subway extension that opened last year.

Maybe there would have been more media attention if the street protests hadn't happened in the middle of nowhere.

Maybe not protests but a lot of whining and anger. That being said, I think you and I can both agree that the subway extension was a complete waste of money...we don't agree on much.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: AsphaltPlanet on July 20, 2018, 10:28:12 PM
I bet most people in Antigonish had no idea that the federal government contributed money for the subway extension, or helped Toronto finance their new Toronto Rocket subway cars.  Most people around the country probably just go around their day to day lives rather than worry about Toronto.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: ghYHZ on July 21, 2018, 06:14:51 AM
Quote from: MisterSG1 on July 20, 2018, 09:34:27 PM
^ Excuse me? 

There's really no excuse when you make a comment such as a highway to nowhere. If you have family ties to Newfoundland you should be well aware this highway is that provinces life-line to the ferry now that the railway is gone.

So you drove it a couple of times from '06 to '14 but haven't recently. I drive it nearly every day between Antigonish and New Glasgow and DO know the conditions.

Quote from: MisterSG1 on July 20, 2018, 10:15:13 PM
Maybe not protests but a lot of whining and anger........

Another ridicules comment! You're the one that's whining about NS getting a section of highway that's badly needed.........and as AsphaltPlanet said:

" I bet most people in Antigonish had no idea that the federal government contributed money for the subway extension...........Most people around the country probably just go around their day to day lives rather than worry about Toronto"

And that's the way I see it. If a Downtown Relief Line is needed in Toronto......so be it. It would be highly unlikely you would ever hear a protest from here. I'm well aware of the population of Ontario and also the Brampton area...having family in Bramalea. I'm there regularly (just 3 weeks ago) I also use your road and rail infrastructure.

GO Regional Rail provides a very good service. My closest train is in Truro....3 day a week to Montreal but still my tax dollar funds VIA Rail's multiple trains per day  throughout the Ontario/Quebec Corridor but I'm not complaining.

All I'm saying is look after  our need too and we'll be happy!

Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: Alps on July 21, 2018, 01:17:00 PM
 Cool your jets, both of you.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: vdeane on July 21, 2018, 11:47:45 PM
Quote from: MisterSG1 on July 20, 2018, 09:34:27 PM
Highway 104 in Nova Scotia may be a deadly road as they say, but they say the exact same thing about Quebec's Route 185. I thought that was a very deadly road?
Completing A-85 is also one of Québec's major priorities.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: brucester4 on July 22, 2018, 06:25:53 PM
QuoteIf that is the case, then why don't we just bite the whole bullet now and build a freeway right to the boat? I always envisioned such an extension would use Trunk 4 once on Cape Breton and then use Hwy 125 to Hwy 105 to reach North Sydney.

There isn't enough traffic in Cape Breton to justify building a freeway.  I imagine there won't be a 4 lane freeway any further than the Canso Causeway in the foreseeable future.  There was a 1 lane bridge in St Peter's on Truck 4 until recently.  At least that highway is in good shape now.

Quote
It's been quite a time since I've taken Hwy 104, is the section between Sutherlands River and Antigonish the non-controlled access section, or does that happen after? I recall a bunch of driveways for instance along Hwy 104 either before or after Antigonish when heading east.

There are a few driveways in Marshy Hope, all the other heavily build up areas are now bypassed.  The present highway between Sutherland's River and Barney's River isn't really that bad.  It is a super 2 with lots of passing lanes, but it is hilly. There have been lot of accidents, and I think the issues are related to bad drivers more than a bad highway.  I have driven that section hundreds of times, and the only issue I have seen is dangerous passing - not a good feeling when you are in the "suicide lane" passing a large truck.   :-o

Title: NS TCH104 Twinning Awarded
Post by: ghYHZ on February 01, 2020, 02:04:58 PM
The Province of Nova Scotia has awarded the contract that will twin the 38 km section of Trans Canada Highway 104 between Sutherlands River and Antigonish to the Dexter Nova Alliance. Included is 28 km of twinning and 10 km of new divided highway.  And to sweeten the pot.....they also get a 20 year contract to maintain the new highway along with another 25 km of existing highway: the 104 from New Glasgow to Sutherlands River + the recently completed Antigonish Bypass.   

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/twinning-highways-antigonish-104-dexter-nova-alliance-1.5446635


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49473312788_cc62f428c7_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2inMEgw)


And clearing and logging was started this winter with nearly the entire 38 km now cleared: 

Looking east....the new Exit 29 Interchange at Barneys River will be located at the top of the hill in the distance...


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49467800948_3e24cdabb3_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2inipMN)


And looking west from the top of that hill:


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49468294976_197d5922bb_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2inkWDw)


Exit 29 is where the totally new 10 km section of divided highway leaves the existing alignments and heads east towards Antigonish.


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49434239586_47b34d5df9_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2ijkpaC)


The area around Exit 30 is cleared and a new overpass will be added to the right of the existing structure:


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49468519392_98a15fdfdd_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2inn6mL)

Title: Re: NS TCH104 Twinning Awarded
Post by: Rothman on February 01, 2020, 07:53:06 PM
That's a heckuva project.
Title: Re: NS TCH104 Twinning Awarded
Post by: deathtopumpkins on February 03, 2020, 09:16:48 AM
I must admit I'm going to miss the bit of 104 that's being bypassed. Through that valley was a scenic little stretch that was welcome after several hours of fairly boring 4-lane highway.
Title: Re: NS TCH104 Twinning Awarded
Post by: cbeach40 on February 03, 2020, 10:48:41 AM
Quote from: ghYHZ on February 01, 2020, 02:04:58 PM
The Province of Nova Scotia has awarded the contract that will twin the 38 km section of Trans Canada Highway 104 between Sutherlands River and Antigonish to the Dexter Nova Alliance. Included is 28 km of twinning and 10 km of new divided highway.  And to sweeten the pot.....they also get a 20 year contract to maintain the new highway along with another 25 km of existing highway: the 104 from New Glasgow to Sutherlands River + the recently completed Antigonish Bypass.

That's not really sweetening the pot so to speak, it's a design/build/finance/operate/maintain contract. The contractor is taking on a good deal of liability with this, but at the same time will likely be making a pile of money from it long term. Meanwhile the road authority is getting a road sooner than later, but are losing some autonomy over it and over the long term paying more for it.

So yeah, there's benefits and drawbacks to both parties in this sort of arrangement.
Title: Re: NS TCH104 Twinning Awarded
Post by: ghYHZ on February 03, 2020, 11:40:03 AM
Quote from: cbeach40 on February 03, 2020, 10:48:41 AM
That's not really sweetening the pot so to speak, it's a design/build/finance/operate/maintain contract. The contractor is taking on a good deal of liability with this.......

Yes...but they are also getting an additional 25 km of highway thrown in to maintain that's already built.....with sections open for 7+ years now including New Glasgow to Sutherlands River and Phase I of the Antigonish Bypass along with Phase II that opened in '16. 
Title: Re: NS TCH104 Twinning Awarded
Post by: cbeach40 on February 03, 2020, 01:39:41 PM
Quote from: ghYHZ on February 03, 2020, 11:40:03 AM
Quote from: cbeach40 on February 03, 2020, 10:48:41 AM
That's not really sweetening the pot so to speak, it's a design/build/finance/operate/maintain contract. The contractor is taking on a good deal of liability with this.......

Yes...but they are also getting an additional 25 km of highway thrown in to maintain that's already built.....with sections open for 7+ years now including New Glasgow to Sutherlands River and Phase I of the Antigonish Bypass along with Phase II that opened in '16. 

With 20 years to operate and maintain that section.

That sounds less to me like a nice incentive for the constructor and more like the road authority mortgaging an existing section of highway.
Title: Re: NS TCH104 Twinning Awarded
Post by: Chris on February 03, 2020, 02:47:36 PM
This appears to be fairly common internationally, I've seen it used in various European countries as well, where a contractor (often a consortium) gets to operate a larger section of roadway than just the portion to be constructed. Perhaps they need some kind of minimum scale for it to be worthwhile? I can understand that it may be costly to maintain equipment for just the maintenance and operations of a 10 or 20 kilometer section of road and they need 50 or more kilometers for that to work out efficiently.
Title: Re: NS TCH104 Twinning Awarded
Post by: AsphaltPlanet on February 03, 2020, 02:54:24 PM
Unrelated, but I strongly dislike the font that Nova Scotia uses for its mileage markers.
Title: Re: NS TCH104 Twinning Awarded
Post by: AsphaltPlanet on February 03, 2020, 08:35:59 PM
Also, I recorded a video of this section of Hwy 104 last summer:

Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: Stephane Dumas on August 01, 2020, 09:15:07 AM
Might be worth to revive this thread. ;)
I saw this news via Skyscraperpage forums. https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=8984289&postcount=1251  Construction on TCH-104 had begun.
https://novascotia.ca/news/release/?id=20200717005

QuoteConstruction has begun for the twinning of the Highway 104 between Sutherlands River, Pictou Co. and Antigonish.

Crews and machinery broke ground today, July 17. The $718 million project will make the highway safer for motorists and improve the efficiency of one the province's most important transportation corridors.

"This project will save lives and provide travellers and business with a high-quality highway for many years to come,"  said Lloyd Hines, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal. "A safe and efficient highway system is essential to the economic and social well-being of Nova Scotia. Our partnership with Dexter Nova Alliance will deliver on that goal."

Dexter Nova Alliance, led by local contractors Dexter Construction and Nova Construction, with BBGI as an equity partner, was awarded the contract to design, build, finance, operate and maintain a section of Highway 104 in May.

Construction will be completed before the end of 2023.

The Highway 104 project, part of the Trans-Canada Highway, consists of construction of a twinned highway beginning east of New Glasgow near Exit 27 at Sutherlands River, and running east to just west of Exit 31.

The project includes 28 kilometres of new two-lane twinned highway and 10 kilometres of new four-lane twinned highway. There are two new interchanges and about 24 new bridges. Dexter Nova Alliance will also upgrade the existing section of highway.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: ghYHZ on August 03, 2020, 07:16:17 AM
Not part of the current twinning project and located 10 km east of the Antigonish By-pass is a new interchange at the Paq'tnkek First Nation. This is a joint development with the Province and includes a Travel Plaza. The new overpass was designed for the next phase of TCH104 twinning in mind......east toward the Canso Causeway.   

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50181712111_fffb99caf7_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jsooGX)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50181712016_e5e29becd2_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jsooFj)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50181970237_43866ff130_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jspHrp)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50181711761_d737e13065_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jsooAV)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50181711566_e67843d3b6_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jsooxy)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50181712161_9756e48e78_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jsooHP)

Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: ghYHZ on October 25, 2020, 02:23:33 PM
Here's the Dexter-Nova Alliance web site for the new highway: Dexter Nova Alliance consortium

https://hwy104twinning.ca/

Note in the timelines that some sections will open next year.....probably with two-way traffic on the new lanes so construction can then shift over to the existing lanes for upgrading and bridge replacement. (those bridges are now 53 years old).....and that 2043 date is the end of their operations and maintenance contract.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: ghYHZ on October 22, 2021, 11:38:28 AM
The photo page on the Highway 104 Twinning website has been updated to show this years progress with a lot of paving complete. The plan is to shift two-way traffic over to the new twinned lanes this November between Sutherlands River and Barneys River Station and between James River (Pushie Rd) and Antigonish......then rebuild bridges and rehabilitate the existing lanes over the next two years.

The entirely new 11 km 4-lane bypass alignment of Marshy Hope between Barneys River and Pushie Road will still be under construction until the fully completed highway opens in 2023.   

Photos here......

https://hwy104twinning.ca/progress-history/

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51619169390_46390f92be_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mDpJF9)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51617464332_a45f0b23e4_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mDfZPA)

Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: yakra on October 29, 2021, 04:20:34 PM
Looks like quite a bit of roadway (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=ns.ns104&lat=45.58477648041894&lon=-62.18259572982789&zoom=15) is going to be orphaned from Marshy Hope to Glen Bard. I wonder how that's going to work with Trunk 4 tying in to the west. Searched the net for schematics; no luck; all I see is this proposal someone added to OSM (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.587690&lon=-62.198805&zoom=17). Could be apocryphal for all I know, just the editor's assumption; I know of no official sources backing it up.

In New Brunswick, a decent-size chunk of bypassed NB1 became part of Bonaview Rd (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=nb.nb001&lat=45.19882264846791&lon=-67.06865787506105&zoom=14), providing local access. Here though, the old road segment is a bit shorter, and doesn't provide access to much of anything that Trunk 4 doesn't.
Maybe it'll be demolished and return to nature like this temporary connector in Antigonish (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=ns.ns104&lat=45.606742&lon=-61.957054&zoom=15). This one though is a lot longer both in distance and the amount of time spent serving thru traffic.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: ghYHZ on October 29, 2021, 05:37:11 PM
Quote from: yakra on October 29, 2021, 04:20:34 PM
Looks like quite a bit of roadway (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=ns.ns104&lat=45.58477648041894&lon=-62.18259572982789&zoom=15) is going to be orphaned from Marshy Hope to Glen Bard. I wonder how that's going to work with Trunk 4 tying in to the west. Searched the net for schematics; no luck; all I see is this proposal someone added to OSM (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.587690&lon=-62.198805&zoom=17). Could be apocryphal for all I know, just the editor's assumption; I know of no official sources backing it up.

In New Brunswick, a decent-size chunk of bypassed NB1 became part of Bonaview Rd (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=nb.nb001&lat=45.19882264846791&lon=-67.06865787506105&zoom=14), providing local access. Here though, the old road segment is a bit shorter, and doesn't provide access to much of anything that Trunk 4 doesn't.
Maybe it'll be demolished and return to nature like this temporary connector in Antigonish (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=ns.ns104&lat=45.606742&lon=-61.957054&zoom=15). This one though is a lot longer both in distance and the amount of time spent serving thru traffic.

Here's some photos I took at a TIR Open House in November 2018 and is pretty close to what you note.

Trunk 4 will be rerouted to the new Exit 29 structure then will flow onto the existing 104 alignment through the gorge at Marshy Hope. This will become new Trunk 4 then flow back into the existing Trunk 4 alignment at Strathglass Rd near the Pictou/Antigonish Co line.

The section of existing 104 from Strathglass Rd to Pushie Rd will be 'returned to nature' as you say.

It will be possible then to drive from New Glasgow to Antigonish entirely on Trunk 4 avoiding TCH104.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51638874107_d4ef68e37d_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mF9JcD)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51640557095_5d89be9ae1_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mFimuF)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51639701891_5ce0156e44_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mFdYgM)

Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: yakra on October 30, 2021, 05:24:05 PM
Thanks for the photos. The last one shows a much more seamless transition for future Trunk 4. I've fixed that dubious OSM edit.

Quote from: ghYHZ on October 29, 2021, 05:37:11 PM
It will be possible then to drive from New Glasgow to Antigonish entirely on Trunk 4 avoiding TCH104.

Around 2010, there were seven gaps in Trunk 4. Three closed in the early 2010s...
The gap between exits 29 & 29A will be closed soon; that's what this thread's about. ;)
Of the remaining (https://travelmapping.net/user/mapview.php?rte=NS4) 3?
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: Chris on July 23, 2023, 04:33:53 AM
https://novascotia.ca/news/release/?id=20230721003

Newly Twinned Section of Highway 104 Opens, Project Nears Completion

In the coming days, the final 12.5 kilometres between French River and Barneys River will open to traffic, linking four lanes of divided highway from Antigonish to the New Brunswick border.
Title: Re: TCH 104 Twinning from Sutherlands River to Antigonish NS.
Post by: Great Lakes Roads on September 11, 2023, 12:24:57 AM
New Interchange for Broadway, Pictou County

https://novascotia.ca/news/release/?id=20230831006

A new (partial) exit 28 interchange will be coming to the ~20-kilometer section between exits 27 and 29 in Broadway, and it will be an eastbound exit and westbound entrance.

The new interchange is also expected to reduce traffic for people living along Trunk 4 in the area.

Design work is already underway, and the project is expected to cost about $9 million. Construction is expected to begin early this fall and be complete next summer.

Dexter Nova Alliance, the Province's partner on the Highway 104 twinning project, is leading the interchange project.