Nova Scotia Highway 106
Highway 106 is a 19 km (12 mi) 2-lane limited-access highway located within Pictou County, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
Highway 106 | |
|---|---|
| Route Transcanadienne | |
| Jubilee Highway Trans-Canada Highway | |
| Route information | |
| Maintained by Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal | |
| Length | 19.38 km[1] (12.04 mi) |
| Major junctions | |
| South end | Hwy 104 (TCH) near New Glasgow |
| Trunk 6 / Route 376 at Pictou | |
| North end | Northumberland Ferries terminal in Caribou continues as Route 1 (TCH) in Prince Edward Island |
| Location | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Nova Scotia |
| Highway system | |
The provincial government named the highway the Jubilee Highway on December 21, 2012 in honour of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.[2]
The highway is part of the Prince Edward Island loop of the Trans-Canada Highway and connects the Northumberland Ferries terminal in Caribou in the north with the mainline Trans-Canada at Highway 104 near Mount William in the south, 3 kilometres (2 mi) east of New Glasgow.
Route description
Highway 106 begins at a trumpet interchange with Highway 104. The route bypasses to the west side of New Glasgow by running along the centre of Abercrombie Point.[3] It crosses Pictou Harbour to the town of Pictou using the Harvey A. Veniot Causeway, which opened in 1968.[4] A traffic circle at the west end of Pictou, known as the Pictou Rotary, connects Highway 106 with the centre of town as well as Trunk 6 (the Sunrise Trail) and Route 376. The route is a super two expressway except for a short section of at-grade two lane highway near the northern terminus. The route ends in Caribou at the Northumberland Ferries terminal to Prince Edward Island, where the Trans-Canada Highway designation continues as Prince Edward Island Highway 1.[3]
Major intersections
The entire route is in Pictou County.
| Location | km[1] | mi | Exit | Destinations | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | Hwy 104 (TCH) – New Glasgow, Cape Breton Island, Westville, Truro | Signed as exits 1E (east) and 1W (west) |
| Mount William | 1.3 | 0.81 | 1A | Abercrombie, Trenton | |
| | 6.6 | 4.1 | 2 | Granton, Abercrombie | |
| Pictou | 8.6– 10.2 | 5.3– 6.3 | Harvey Veniot Causeway crosses Pictou Harbour | ||
| 11.7– 12.1 | 7.3– 7.5 | 3A | West River Road – Pictou | Pictou Rotary Signed as exits 3B (to Hwy 106 north) and 3E (to Hwy 106 south) | |
| 3C | Trunk 6 west (Sunrise Trail) – River John, Tatamagouche, Amherst | ||||
| 3D | Route 376 south to Route 256 – Lyons Brook, Durham | ||||
| Caribou | 19.4 | 12.1 | Caribou Ferry Terminal | ||
| Northumberland Strait | Northumberland Ferries Limited ferry to Wood Islands, PEI | ||||
| — | Route 1 (TCH) west – Charlottetown | Continues in Prince Edward Island | |||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Note: Exit numbers in Nova Scotia are sequential. | |||||
References
Route map:
- ^ a b Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal. (PDF) (Report). Province of Nova Scotia. pp. 155–156. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 20, 2013. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
- ^ "Highway Naming Commemorates 60-Year Reign" (Press release). Government of Nova Scotia. December 21, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
- ^ a b Google (December 19, 2013). "Nova Scotia Highway 106 - Length and route" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
- ^ Little, Jennifer Vardy (July 10, 2008). "The causeway should stay, for now at least". The News. New Glasgow: TC Transcontinental. Retrieved December 19, 2013.