Highway Maintenance Projects Scheduled for Six Counties

The province has awarded a $278,665 road-improvement contract for work in six Nova Scotia counties.

The Department of Transportation and Public Works has awarded the contract to Road Savers Maritimes Limited for crack filling and crack sealing on various roads in the following six counties:

• Antigonish County, 6.9 kilometres
• Cape Breton County, 12.3 kilometres
• Guysborough County, 16.5 kilometres
• Inverness County, 15.4 kilometres
• Richmond County, 11.2 kilometres
• Victoria County, 8.2 kilometres

The work adds up to about 70.5 kilometres of highway.

"Timely road maintenance is an important part of our job," said Ron Russell, Minister of Transportation and Public Works. "By performing this maintenance now the department can save larger construction costs later on."

The Department of Transportation and Public Works' highways division manages more than 23,000 kilometres of roads in Nova Scotia. It maintains 4,100 bridges and operates seven provincial ferries. Staff provide services from district offices in Bridgewater, Bedford, Truro and Sydney.