Highway 111 is a controlled-access highway in
Halifax Regional Municipality
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,
Nova Scotia
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,
Canada
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.
Highway 111 varies in width from 4-12 lanes and is known colloquially as the Circumferential Highway, or, more recently, "the Circ", because it forms a partial
orbital road
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around
Dartmouth. The highway runs from Pleasant Street in the neighbourhood of Woodside in the south to the
A. Murray MacKay Bridge in the north.
It serves as a key transportation link for Dartmouth and
Halifax. The section from Highway 118 (Woodland Avenue) to the MacKay Bridge was constructed at the same time as the bridge, opening in 1970. The portion from Pleasant Street to Woodland Avenue was built in 1960 and was twinned in 1977.
Micmac Rotary
The Micmac (or Mic Mac) Rotary was a
traffic circle
A roundabout is a type of circular intersection (road), intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is typically given to traffic already in the junction.''The N ...
located at the intersection of Hwy 111 with
Route 318 (Braemar Drive) and
Trunk 7 (Main Street/Prince Albert Road/Grahams Grove). It was named after nearby
Lake Micmac
Lake Micmac is a freshwater lake located in the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Located entirely within the community of Dartmouth, Lake Micmac is also known as 'Second Lake' for its position in the Shubenacadie Canal syste ...
, which was partially in-filled to accommodate it. The Micmac Rotary was notorious for rush hour congestion, even resulting in the recording of a song entitled "Mic Mac Rotary Blues".
The rotary was removed during a redesign of the intersection in the late 1980s which saw it replaced by the "Micmac
Parclo
A partial cloverleaf interchange or parclo is a modification of a cloverleaf interchange.
The design has been well received, and has since become one of the most popular freeway-to-arterial interchange designs in North America. It has also bee ...
", which consists of a series of overpasses and controlled access lanes. The resulting roadway through the Parclo and across Lake Micmac to the interchange with
Highway 118 is the widest in Atlantic Canada at 10-12 lanes.
Highway of Heroes
On May 22, 2013 Highway 111 was officially named "Highway of Heroes" by
Premier
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Darrell Dexter
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.
Exit list
See also
*
List of highways named Circumferential Highway
*
List of highways named Highway of Heroes Highway of Heroes may refer to one of the following roads:
Canada British Columbia
* British Columbia Highway 1 between Surrey and Abbotsford, part of the Trans Canada Highway
New Brunswick
* New Brunswick Route 2, part of the Trans Canada Hi ...
References
External links
Google Maps Satellite view of Highway 111
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Limited-access roads in Canada
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Ring roads in Canada