Tenders Called in Four Counties and Two Regional Municipalities

TRANSPORTATION/PUBLIC WORKS--Tenders Called in Four Counties and Two Regional Municipalities

Tenders are being called for work in Hants, Inverness, Pictou and Richmond counties, Cape Breton Regional Municipality and Halifax Regional Municipality.

The tender in Hants County is for construction of subgrade, grading and gravelling of one section of Highway 101, from the Ellershouse Road underpass to Stillwater Station Road, about 5.2 kilometres.

This tender closes on June 14. The work is expected to be completed by May 15, 2003.

The tender in Inverness and Richmond counties is for gravelling and seal coating of two sections.

Section 1: Big Marsh Road, Inverness Co., from North Side River Denys Road, northerly about 2.1 kilometres.

Section 2: Poulamon Loop Road, Richmond Co., off Route 320, about 1.2 kilometres.

This tender closes on June 14. The work is expected to be completed by August 31.

The tender in Pictou County is for cold planing and asphalt concrete repaving of one section of Trunk 4, from the New Glasgow town line westerly to Fraser Mountain Road, about 5 kilometres.

This tender closes on June 13. The work is expected to be completed by August 31.

The tender in Cape Breton Regional Municipality is for cold planing and asphalt concrete repaving of one section of Highway 125, from Exit 5, Sydney River, easterly to Grand Lake Road, Trunk 4, including interchange ramps, about 11.2 kilometres.

This tender closes on June 19. The work is expected to be completed by October 15.

The tender in Halifax Regional Municipality is for micro- surfacing of two sections.

Section 1: Highway 101, eastbound and westbound lanes, from Exit 1, Bedford, to Exit 3, Mount Uniacke, about 33 kilometres.

Section 2: Highway 103, from Exit 4, Five Island Lake, to Exit 5, Upper Tantallon, about 6.8 kilometres.

This tender closes on June 13. The work is expected to be completed by August 31.