Highway 111 (Nova Scotia)

Highway 111
Highway of Heroes Circumferential Highway
Route information
Maintained by Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal
Length:	13 km (8 mi)
Major junctions
West end:	Trunk 2 in Halifax
	Hwy 118 in Dartmouth Trunk 7 / Route 318 in Dartmouth
East end:	Route 322 in Dartmouth
Highway system
Provincial highways in Nova Scotia ← Hwy 107 Hwy 113 →

Provincial highways in Nova Scotia

Highway 111 is a 13-kilometre (8 mi) controlled-access freeway in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Highway 111 varies from 4-12 lanes and is known colloquially as the Circumferential Highway, or, more recently, "the Circ", because it forms a partial orbital road around Dartmouth. The highway runs from Pleasant Street in the neighbourhood of Woodside in the south to the A. Murray MacKay Bridge in the north.

It serves as a key transportation link for Dartmouth and the Halifax Regional Municipality. The section from Highway 118 (Woodland Avenue) to the MacKay Bridge was constructed at the same time as the bridge, opening in 1970. The portion from Pleasant Street to Woodland Avenue was built during the mid 1960s and was twinned in 1977.

The MacKay Bridge, as maintained by the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission, is officially part of Highway 111, and is considered as an extension of it. A truck route through the former city of Halifax, from the MacKay Bridge along Connaught Avenue to Bayers Road near Highway 102, is signed with directional markers, but is not officially a part of the route.

The Micmac (or Mic Mac) Rotary was a traffic circle located at the intersection of Hwy 111 with Route 318 (Braemar Drive) and Trunk 7 (Main Street/Prince Albert Road/Grahams Grove). It was named after nearby Lake Micmac, which was partially in-filled to accommodate it. The Micmac Rotary was notorious for rush hour congestion, even resulting in the recording of a song entitled "Mic Mac Rotary Blues".

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