Route 130 is a mostly north/south provincial highway in the

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province of

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. The road has a length of approximately 108 kilometres, and services small, otherwise isolated rural communities. In these areas, the highway is often unofficially referred to as "Main Street." The highway is known as ''Broadway'' and ''Portage Road'' in Grand Falls, and ''West Riverside Drive'' in

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History

Route 130 was created in 1965 as a short spur from the

Trans-Canada Highway The Trans-Canada Highway ( French: ; abbreviated as the TCH or T-Can) is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada, from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the Atlantic Ocean o ...

into Grand Falls. When a new 4-lane TCH was opened in 2007, the route was extended by over 95 km south from Grand Falls along the former TCH to Aroostook, along a formerly unnumbered route (part of the original

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until the 1960s) from Aroostook to Perth-Andover, the former TCH again from Perth-Andover to

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(near Hartland), and a new access road that meets up with the new highway at Waterville.

Major intersections

Communities along the Route

* Grand Falls * Grand Falls Portage * Lower Portage * Four Falls * Aroostook * Aroostook Junction * Perth-Andover * Hillandale *

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* Bairdsville * River de Chute * Clearview * Upper Wicklow *

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* Florenceville * Riverbank * Stickney *

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* Upper Brighton * Somerville * Waterville

References

{{NB Highways Grand Falls, New Brunswick 130 130 130 Former segments of the Trans-Canada Highway

History

Major intersections

Communities along the Route

See also

References