Toll Highway From St. Peter's To Sydney Could Be Almost $22

The Province of Nova Scotia is trying to determine the level of public support for twinned highways. Tolls would be necessary to pay for the projected $2.2 Billion project costs.

8 different highway corridors are up for twinning, with varying estimates on potential tolls.

Corridor 7, from St. Peter's to Sydney, could have a toll introduced from $5.03 to $21.81.

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Steven Smith Follow Me 2017-01-24 3:06 PM AST Reply 0 0 Does the twinned highway end at St. Peter's or continue on through the province? How much will the toll(s) be all the way through, if that is the plan? For me, $5-$22 to St.Peter's? No.
Kathleen Fowler Follow Me 2017-01-24 3:52 PM AST Reply 0 0 Wow, $22.00 is outrageous. I'm all for twinned highways, they save lives, but it's unrealistic to expect anyone to pay that much in tolls. On the other hand, having recently made the trip after a snow fall on a windy day, I would have paid it rather than face the oncoming trucks and the white outs that occur. Easy for me to say tho. I only make the drive about 6 to 8 times a year. Not fair to locals.
Michael MacNeil Follow Me 2017-01-24 4:23 PM AST Reply 1 0 This study was done with no consideration of ever building a twinned highway in Cape Breton or the safety of its residents. If you looked closely at the route that they picked you can see why the high cost of putting a twinned highway through an area that is highly developed requiring a lot of expropriation. If they were serious about building a twinned highway in Cape Breton, they would have chose the route from the Sydport turnoff on highway 125 and follow through the Boisdale mountains over the Grand Narrows bridge and continue on to Orangedale connecting on to the 125. This route would be the shortest, require the least expropriation, have the least connecting roads requiring expensive intersections, will not pass through First nation communities thus being safer, not require construction over a mountain, not interfere with tourism but with the elimination of big trucks would enhance the other routes and also be a major boost for the proposed container terminal especially if they included a right of way for a railway. Personally I think there should be a twinned highway from Sydney through Yarmouth for safety and also connecting our province closer/ faster for business and tourism. Maybe Cape Breton might get more of the American tourist/ business using the Yarmouth Ferry. There should be a $5.00 fee per day for the user no matter if they drove the whole route or 1 mile of it. If a person decided to stop into a community and continue again later in the day, their toll is covered with the original $5.00. It is only fair and logical. Steven Smith Follow Me 2017-01-24 4:31 PM AST Reply 0 0 As far as the route, I was thinking the same thing. It should go through Grand Narrows on to Orangedale. Why route 4? Jason Morrison Follow Me 2017-01-26 1:02 PM AST Reply 0 0 I would imagine they looked at the Boisdale route but the 105 isn't twinned from Orangedale to Port Hawkesbury so if you include twinning the 105 to Port Hawkesbury the route would actually be longer and would have to include flyovers on all those intersecting roads as well. The cost of the bridge over Grand Narrows could have also been another deciding factor. No matter which route is chosen it would be a new build over the tops of mountains to avoid as much developed land as possible. I would love to see the highway twinned but due to the logistics the stretch to Sydney might be the last highway twinned in the province.
Richard Lorway Follow Me 2017-01-24 5:37 PM AST Reply 3 0 A ridiculous concept IMO. We are losing 1,000/year from the Island. Ergo, fewer cars each year. So who does a twinned highway benefit? Infrastructure for who exactly? Hmmm. Maybe the large manufacturers and box stores headquartered elsewhere, who want to make it easier for their trucks to bring in goods to sell to us. If they are the real beneficiaries, then let them pay for the infrastructure. Why should taxpayers subsidize the operations of large private companies? Not to mention putting acres and acres of valuable waterfront property under asphalt and tearing down people's homes and cottages in the process I guess it must be an election year, so let's build highways. Buy a few votes with highway jobs. It's the oldest trick in the book and yet it still works in Nova Scotia. What a waste of valuable tax dollars that could be put to use elsewhere. And this kind of strategic thinking is what passes for "leadership" in this province.

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Steven Smith Follow Me 2017-01-24 3:06 PM AST

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Does the twinned highway end at St. Peter's or continue on through the province? How much will the toll(s) be all the way through, if that is the plan? For me, $5-$22 to St.Peter's? No.

Kathleen Fowler Follow Me 2017-01-24 3:52 PM AST

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Wow, $22.00 is outrageous. I'm all for twinned highways, they save lives, but it's unrealistic to expect anyone to pay that much in tolls. On the other hand, having recently made the trip after a snow fall on a windy day, I would have paid it rather than face the oncoming trucks and the white outs that occur. Easy for me to say tho. I only make the drive about 6 to 8 times a year. Not fair to locals.

Michael MacNeil Follow Me 2017-01-24 4:23 PM AST

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This study was done with no consideration of ever building a twinned highway in Cape Breton or the safety of its residents. If you looked closely at the route that they picked you can see why the high cost of putting a twinned highway through an area that is highly developed requiring a lot of expropriation. If they were serious about building a twinned highway in Cape Breton, they would have chose the route from the Sydport turnoff on highway 125 and follow through the Boisdale mountains over the Grand Narrows bridge and continue on to Orangedale connecting on to the 125. This route would be the shortest, require the least expropriation, have the least connecting roads requiring expensive intersections, will not pass through First nation communities thus being safer, not require construction over a mountain, not interfere with tourism but with the elimination of big trucks would enhance the other routes and also be a major boost for the proposed container terminal especially if they included a right of way for a railway. Personally I think there should be a twinned highway from Sydney through Yarmouth for safety and also connecting our province closer/ faster for business and tourism. Maybe Cape Breton might get more of the American tourist/ business using the Yarmouth Ferry. There should be a $5.00 fee per day for the user no matter if they drove the whole route or 1 mile of it. If a person decided to stop into a community and continue again later in the day, their toll is covered with the original $5.00. It is only fair and logical.

Steven Smith Follow Me 2017-01-24 4:31 PM AST

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As far as the route, I was thinking the same thing. It should go through Grand Narrows on to Orangedale. Why route 4?

Jason Morrison Follow Me 2017-01-26 1:02 PM AST

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I would imagine they looked at the Boisdale route but the 105 isn't twinned from Orangedale to Port Hawkesbury so if you include twinning the 105 to Port Hawkesbury the route would actually be longer and would have to include flyovers on all those intersecting roads as well. The cost of the bridge over Grand Narrows could have also been another deciding factor. No matter which route is chosen it would be a new build over the tops of mountains to avoid as much developed land as possible. I would love to see the highway twinned but due to the logistics the stretch to Sydney might be the last highway twinned in the province.

Richard Lorway Follow Me 2017-01-24 5:37 PM AST

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A ridiculous concept IMO. We are losing 1,000/year from the Island. Ergo, fewer cars each year. So who does a twinned highway benefit? Infrastructure for who exactly? Hmmm. Maybe the large manufacturers and box stores headquartered elsewhere, who want to make it easier for their trucks to bring in goods to sell to us. If they are the real beneficiaries, then let them pay for the infrastructure. Why should taxpayers subsidize the operations of large private companies? Not to mention putting acres and acres of valuable waterfront property under asphalt and tearing down people's homes and cottages in the process I guess it must be an election year, so let's build highways. Buy a few votes with highway jobs. It's the oldest trick in the book and yet it still works in Nova Scotia. What a waste of valuable tax dollars that could be put to use elsewhere. And this kind of strategic thinking is what passes for "leadership" in this province.

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