Nova Scotia Highway 118

Highway 118, in Nova Scotia, is a short suburban freeway connecting (officially) Victoria Road via Woodland Ave. in Dartmouth with Highway 102 at Fall River, 14km to the north. The highway crosses the Historic Shubenacadie Canal. It also runs along the western shore of Lake Micmac and the western edge of Shubie Park and is known as Lakeview Drive. Running parallel to the highway from the Waverley Road to exit 14 is a portion of the Halifax Lateral of the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline (natural gas). The highway serves both as a "A-Train and B-Train" route between the Burnside Industrial Park and Highway 102. The highway has the only collector-express section in Atlantic Canada. It is located at the new exit 12 Dartmouth Crossing interchange.The south end of provincial maintenance is at the Highway 111 interchange.HistoryIn the early 1970s, it was decided that a new highway was required to directly link Highway 102 with Dartmouth. In 1972, the then Department of Highways expropriated a portion of land for the construction of Highway 118. The highway was completed in the late 1970s.Exit list Exit 1 was used from 1971 to 2007 and renumbered Exit 11 Exits 2 and 3 used to be a work site until construction started on Dartmouth Crossing in 2005 Exit 4 was used until 1979, when it was renumbered to Exit 13 Exit 5 was also used until 1979, when it was renumbered to Exit 14