Nova Scotia Highway 101

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Highway 101 is an east-west highway in Nova Scotia that runs from Bedford to Yarmouth.

The highway follows a 308 km (191 mile) route along the southern coast of the Bay of Fundy through the Annapolis Valley. Between its western terminus at Yarmouth to Weymouth, the highway is 2-lane controlled access. Between Weymouth and Digby, the highway reverts to a 2-lane local road. From Digby to Grand Pre, the highway is 2-lane controlled access. A short section of 4-lane expressway is built across the Gaspereau River Valley to Avonport, and east of Avonport to St. Croix, the route is again 2-lane controlled access. From St. Croix to its eastern terminus at Dartmouth, the highway is a 4-lane expressway. Some areas of the 2-lane controlled access part of the highway is actually 3 or 4 lanes, with the addition of passing lanes.

The highway has developed in sections, with the part between Bedford and Windsor having been built in the 1970s, followed by parts through the Annapolis Valley and Digby and Yarmouth counties in the 1980s-1990s. The highway was built largely because the elimination of Dominion Atlantic Railway service in the communities along its route. As a result the highway serves as a "B-Train" route for the area .

Communities served by the highway include, from east to west:

[edit] List of interchanges

Location	Exit	km	Intersecting Roads	Notes
Sackville	1	0	Route 1 (Sackville Drive), Bedford Bypass, Highway 102
Sackville	2	3	Route 354 (Beaverbank Road)
Sackville	3A	11	Halifax Regional Municipality Sanitary Landfill
Mount Uniacke	3	16	Route 1
St. Croix	4	37	Route 1
Three Mile Plains	5	44	Route 14
Windsor	5A	47	Wentworth Road
Windsor	6	49	Water Street
Falmouth	7	50	Route 1
Hantsport	8	56	Hantsport Connector to Route 1
West Brooklyn	8A	61	Ben Jackson Road	at-grade
Avonport	9	65	Route 1
Grand Pre	10	68	Route 1
Greenwich / Wolfville	11	77	Greenwich Road
New Minas	12	83	New Minas Connector, New Canaan Road
Kentville	13	87	Route 12 (Chester Road)
Kentville / Coldbrook	14	91	Route 1
Berwick	15	105	Route 360 (Commercial Street)
Aylesford	16	114	Victoria Road
Kingston	17	123	Bishop Mountain Road	westbound only
Kingston	17	125	Marshall Road	eastbound only
Middleton	18A	133	Victoria Road
Middleton	18	136	Brooklyn Road
Lawrencetown	19	144	Elliot Road
Bridgetown	20	156	Route 1 (Granville Street)
Bridgetown	21	160	Route 201
Lequille / Annapolis Royal	22	182	Route 8
Cornwallis	23A	196	Mary Jane Riley Road	westbound only
Deep Brook	23	200	Route 1
Smiths Cove	24	202	Route 1 (Smiths Cove Loop)
Joggins Bridge	25	207	Route 1 (Smiths Cove Loop), Old Post Road	at-grade
Digby	26	210	Route 303 (Flat Iron Road)
Weymouth	27	233	Route 1	at-grade
St. Bernard	28	240	Route 1
Comeauville / Little Brook	29	255	Little Brook Road
Meteghan	31	270	Meteghan Connector
Salmon River	32	282	Salmon River Road	at-grade
Port Maitland	33	291	Richmond Road
Hebron	34	301	Route 340 (Ohio Road)
Yarmouth		308	Route 3 (Starrs Road)	Yarmouth Terminus

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