Burnside Drive is a four-lane divided roadway, with a speed limit of 80 km/h, that serves the Burnside Business Park in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) community of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The road parallels Highway 118, running north from exit 3 of Highway 111 to Akerley Boulevard, a western extension of Highway 107. Although some maps produced by the province show Burnside Drive, as well as a portion of Akerley Boulevard, as part of Highway 107,[1][2] these roads are actually maintained by the HRM, and Highway 107 becomes Akerley Boulevard about halfway between Highway 118 and Burnside Drive.[3]
History
editBurnside Drive, between Highway 111 and Akerley Boulevard, opened to traffic during the 1980/81 fiscal year.[4]
As part of the Sackville-Bedford-Burnside Connector project, commonly known as the Burnside Expressway, Burnside Drive is being extended northward by approximately 1.2 km to meet the new expressway, which is an extension of Highway 107. Tree-clearing began in 2019, and construction is scheduled to be completed in late 2023.[5]
Intersections
edit- Akerley Boulevard (becomes Highway 107)
- Wright Avenue
- Commodore Drive/Ronald Smith Avenue
- Highway 111 at exit 3
References
edit- ^ Nova Scotia Geomatics Centre, Nova Scotia Archived 2011-09-01 at the Wayback Machine, August 2003
- ^ Nova Scotia Major Highways Archived October 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, 2003
- ^ Halifax Regional Municipality, By-Law No. T-400 Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, as amended July 29, 2000
- ^ Annual report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1981. Nova Scotia Department of Transportation. 1981. p. 10.
- ^ "Highway 107 Sackville-Bedford-Burnside Connector (Highway 107 Extension)". Nova Scotia Department of Public Works. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
The proposed highway will be a 9 km controlled access 4-lane freeway with a 1.2 km arterial connector (extension of Burnside Drive). [...] TIR is proceeding on a schedule that will result in clearing of trees and vegetation at the eastern (Burnside) end of the project in spring 2019. All construction for the project is scheduled to be completed in Fall 2023.
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