Category: Halifax

Some 100 series highways will be twinned without tolls to pay for them.

The McNeil Government has announced it’ll spend $390 million over seven years twinning Highway 103 from Tantalon to Hubbard, the 101 between Three Mile Plains and Falmouth including the Windsor causeway and the 104 from Antigonish to Sutherland’s River. There’ll also be a Burnside to Bedford by-pass. Also the tolls will come off the Cobequid Pass in 2019.

Conservative Leader Jamie Baillie says the McNeil Liberals tried to pull a fast one when it comes to tolls.

Baillie says Premier McNeil should apologize for trying to scare Nova Scotians into paying expensive tolls in order to twin highways. It was only after the taxpayers said no to tolls, Baillie said in a release, that the government found the money to pay for the twinning.