Nova Scotia Highway 104
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Highway 104 in Nova Scotia runs from the New Brunswick border near Amherst to St. Peter's on Cape Breton Island. Except for the portion on Cape Breton, it is part of the Trans-Canada Highway.
Highway 104 mostly supplants the former route of Highway 4. In 1970, all sections of Highway 4 west of New Glasgow were renumbered, although the number was added back in the Mount Thom and Wentworth Valley areas in the 1990s when new alignments of Highway 104 opened to traffic.
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The route is 320 kilometres (199 miles) long, of which the western 177 km (110 miles) is a 4-lane divided freeway. From Amherst, the highway runs east to Oxford, then southeast on a tolled section through the Cobequid Pass that opened in 1997. Tolls for this section is $4 for cars and $3.50 per axle for commercial vehicles. It meets Highway 102 near Truro then turns back northeast past Mount Thom to the New Glasgow and Stellarton areas.
East of New Glasgow, the highway becomes 2 lanes and undivided, and portions have no controlled access. There are traffic lights in the Antigonish area, although construction on a four-laned bypass is tentatively scheduled to begin in 2008. This bypass will keep traffic moving at 110 km/h (70 mph), and eliminate the various bottlenecks between Antigonish and Heatherton, including streches of road with a posted speed limit of 60 km/h (40 mph). Beginning at Heatherton (19 km to the east), Highway 104 is a two-lane freeway to Aulds Cove, where several gas stations and motels are located. The highway then crosses the Canso Causeway to Cape Breton Island. The highway is unsigned as it follows Highway 4 through the town of Port Hawkesbury. From there, another 37 km (20 mile) two-lane freeway segment follows the southern coast of Cape Breton Island to its end at Highway 4 in St. Peter's. An extension of Highway 104 to Sydney has been proposed in the past.
The Nova Scotia provincial government has designated the entire length of Highway 104 from Amherst to St. Peters as a "strategic highway" to qualify for federal cost-sharing of maintenance and future upgrades. This designation has also been applied to the remaining Highway 4 corridor in Cape Breton along the south shore of Bras d'Or Lake from St. Peters to Sydney. It is eventually envisioned that the Trans-Canada Highway will follow the entire length of Highway 104 from Amherst to Sydney as a 4-lane freeway, upgraded from the existing two-lane freeway and uncontrolled access sections of the highway.
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Kilometre distances are approximate.
[edit] Mainland Section
Location | Exit | km | Intersecting Roads | Notes |
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Fort Lawrence | 1 | 1 | Fort Lawrence Road | |
Amherst / Fort Lawrence | 2 | 2 | Route 2 (Fort Lawrence Road, LaPlanche Street) | |
Amherst | 3 | 5 | Route 6 (West Victoria Street)[1] | |
Amherst | 4 | 7 | Route 2 (South Albion Street) | |
Springhill / Salt Springs Station | 5 | 30 | Highway 142 [2] | |
Oxford | 6 | 40 | Route 321 | |
Thomson Station | 7 | 49 | Route 4 | Former Highway 104 through Wentworth Valley; Cobequid Pass toll section begins [3] |
Westchester Valley | 8 | 59 | Wentworth-Collingwood Road | |
Great Village | 10 | 83 | Carrobie Road | |
Glenholme | 11 | 89 | Route 4 | Cobequid Pass toll section ends |
Masstown | 12 | 93 | Route 2 | |
Lower Onslow / Debert | 13 | 98 | McElmon Road | |
Truro | 15 | 107 | Highway 102 | only exit to Halifax [4] |
Valley | 17 | 116 | Route 4 (Pictou Road), Brookside Road | |
Kemptown | 18 | 126 | Stevens Cross Road | |
Mount Thom [5] | 18A | 133 | Route 4 | |
Salt Springs | 19 | 146 | Route 4 | |
Alma | 20 | 155 | Salter Road | |
Westville | 21 | 159 | Route 4 (Truro Road) | |
Mount William | 22 | 161 | Highway 106 | To PEI Ferry |
New Glasgow | 23 | 164 | Route 289 (Westville Road) | |
New Glasgow / Stellarton | 24 | 165 | Route 374 (Stellarton Road, North Foord Street) | |
New Glasgow / Plymouth | 25 | 167 | Route 348 (East River Road) | |
Thorburn | 26 | 170 | Route 347 (Thorburn Road) | |
Sutherlands River | 27A | 178 | Route 4 | at-grade |
Sutherlands River | 27 | 179 | Route 4, Route 245 (Shore Road) | at-grade |
French River | 28 | 185 | Route 4, French River Road | at-grade |
Barneys River | 29 | 198 | Route 4 | at-grade |
Marshy Hope [6] | 29A | 204 | Route 4 | at-grade |
James River | 30 | 210 | Beaver Mountain Road | |
Lower West River | 31A | 219 | Route 4 | at-grade |
Antigonish | 31 | 221 | James Street | at-grade |
Antigonish | 32 | 222 | Route 7 (West Street) | at-grade Signalized |
Antigonish | 33 | 223 | Church Street | at-grade Signalized |
Greenwold | 34 | 226 | Route 4 | at-grade |
Lower South River | 35 | 230 | Route 316 | at-grade |
Heatherton | 36 | 238 | Summerside Road | at-grade |
Heatherton | 36A | 240 | Route 4 | at-grade |
Monastery | 37 | 252 | Route 4 | |
Havre Boucher | 38 | 262 | Frankville Road | |
Aulds Cove | 39 | 270 | Route 4 | at-grade |
Aulds Cove | 40 | 271 | Route 344 |
[edit] Cape Breton Section
Location | Exit | km | Intersecting Roads | Notes |
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Port Hawkesbury [7] | 43 | 283 | Route 4 | |
Lower River Inhabitants | 44 | 293 | Lower River Road, Port Malcolm Road | at-grade |
Evanston | 45 | 295 | Evanston Road, Whiteside Road | at-grade |
Louisdale | 46 | 306 | Route 320 | |
River Bourgeois [8] | 47 | 316 | Sporting Mountain Road |
Preceded by: NB Route 2 |
Trans-Canada Highway NS Highway 104 |
Succeeded by: NS Highway 105 |
Preceded by: NS Highway 106 |
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Highway designations of the Trans-Canada Highway
British Columbia: Highway 1 • Highway 16 Alberta: Highway 1 • Highway 16 Saskatchewan: Highway 1 • Highway 16 Manitoba: Highway 1 • Highway 16 • Highway 100 Ontario: Highway 17 • Highway 69 • Highway 400 • Highway 12 • Highway 7 • Highway 417 • Highway 71 • Highway 11 • Highway 66 • Highway 17 • Highway 417 Québec: Autoroute 40 • Autoroute 25 • Autoroute 20 • Autoroute 85 • Route 185 • Route 117 • Autoroute 15 New Brunswick: Route 2 • Route 16 Prince Edward Island: Highway 1 Nova Scotia: Highway 104 • Highway 105 • Highway 106 Newfoundland: Highway 1
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