Road Tenders Called
Department of Transportation and Public Works has announced road projects for Annapolis, Antigonish, Cape Breton, Inverness and Pictou counties.
In Annapolis County, a tender has been called for construction of subgrade, gravelling, pulverization and paving of three sections:
- Highway 101 interchange ramps at Mary Jane Riley (Victory) Road, ramps A and B, a distance of about 1.6 kilometres
- Mary Jane Riley Road from Waldec Line Road to Highway 101, a distance of about 1.3 kilometres
- Waldec Line Road from Burns Hill to Mary Jane Riley Road, a distance of about 0.4 kilometres
In Antigonish County, a tender has been called for paving and repaving in three sections:
- Trunk 4, from Frankville Road easterly a distance of three kilometres
- Havre Boucher Road (Wharf Road) from Trunk 4 northerly to Wharf, a distance of one kilometre
- Old Wharf Road from Havre Boucher Road (Wharf Road) to Cape Jack Road, a distance of one kilometre
Four separate tenders have been called for Cape Breton County:
- upgrading and repaving of George Street (Trunk 22) from Edgar Street southerly to Highway 125, a distance 0.5 kilometre
- upgrading, cold planing, gravelling and paving of Trunk 4 from Loch Lomond Road at Big Pond westerly toward Middle Cape, a distance of about six kilometres
- construction of subgrade and gravelling for the Highway 125 twinning from the end of the existing four lanes near Leitches Creek northerly, a distance of three kilometres
- grading, gravelling and paving of Alder Point Road from Toronto Road northerly, a distance of one kilometre
In Inverness County, a tender has been called for the upgrading, gravelling and paving of Portage Road, from the end of a 1996 paving project westerly, a distance of 4.8 kilometres.
Finally, a tender has been called for two culvert replacements at East River East Side Road in Pictou County.
Tenders for the work in Annapolis, in Pictou, and to George Street and Trunk 4 in Cape Breton County close Aug. 27. All others close Sept. 1.
The Department of Transportation and Public Works is committed to better, safer roads for Nova Scotia.