Nova Scotia Highway 125
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| Maintained by Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal | ||||
| Length: | 28 km (17 mi) | |||
| Existed: | 1970 – present | |||
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 Hwy 105 (TCH), Route 305 near Sydney Mines46°14′12″N 60°15′47.9″W / 46.23667°N 60.263306°W
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  Route 223 / Trunk 23 in Leitches Creek Trunk 4 in Sydney River Route 327 in Prime Brook Trunk 22 in Mira Road
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Trunk 4 in Sydney46°8′49.6″N 60°8′38.8″W / 46.147111°N 60.144111°W
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Provincial highways in Nova Scotia
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Provincial highways in Nova Scotia
Highway 125 is a 28 km long controlled-access highway located in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality. The provincial government named it Peacekeepers Way on August 18, 2008.
Part of the provincial 100-series arterial highway network, Highway 125 encircles the west side of Sydney Harbour, from an interchange with Highway 105 (the Trans-Canada Highway) at Sydney Mines to Trunk 4 (Grand Lake Road) immediately east of Sydney.
The northern third of the highway was upgraded during the late 1990s and early 2000s from a two-lane freeway to a twinned 4-lane freeway. Particularly problematic was the fact that the highway passes in proximity to Pottle Lake, the water supply reservoir for North Sydney, which required installation of pollution control monitoring and containment systems.
Approximately 6 km of the highway near its midpoint is currently slated for similar upgrading. As well, the province is completing the planning and design for the twinning of the remaining two-lane section of the highway, between Exit 6 (with Trunk 4/Kings' Rd) and Exit 9 (also with Trunk 4/Grand Lake Rd).
In 2002 a connector road was built from the Grand Lake Road interchange which gives access to the port of Sydney at the former Sydney Steel Corporation property which is now an industrial park.
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