Interesting that NS 4 is a corridor but TCH 105 is not.
Not really, I've driven the Trans Canada on Cape Breton many of times and the vast majority of that road is a non controlled access roadway. Attempting to convert that road into a freeway would not be a good idea....especially the area where you descend "Kelly's Mountain" there's a nasty switchback before you get to the Seal Island Bridge.
If Hwy 104 is converted into a freeway all the way to Hwy 125, I reckon the TCH will carry 104 all the way to 125 and onward to 105.....thus we would almost have a freeway from my place to the boat..ahem...Newfoundland ferry.
Interesting... I thought the NS 1xx routes were supposed to be limited access, even if not freeway. But who's to say they won't pull a BC and keep the TCH right where it is?
They are supposed to be but they always aren't, heck, the old alignment of NS 104 through Antigonish had a speed limit of 50km/h and you had to pass through a few fairly busy intersections. Indeed some portions of Hwy 104 even on mainland Nova Scotia are not controlled access as you occasionally see private driveways.
If memory serves me right, the only controlled access portion of NS 105 is the last 3 or 4 km on the approach to the ferry terminal. Indeed Hwy 105 has 4 traffic lights on the route if I recall.
About this plan, I find it funny how there's a road planner for either side of the Canso Causeway but no actual real replacement for the Causeway itself. Indeed we may just have freeways on either side of the Causeway but yet a sailboat wanting to cross the Canso strait can hold all traffic hostage.
