By Andrew Macdonald Let's start with a few highway twinning facts: 1. The first twinning of 103 HWY since road builders completed the twinning between Halifax and Upper Tantallon’s Exit 5 just opened this fall, as we reported recently in The Notebook. It was more than...
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John Risley This Week: Bemoans Tedious Delays Of Highway Twinning In Nova Scotia
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Lloyd Hines: Twinning All The Way To Bridgewater & The Canso Causeway On His Radar
By Andrew Macdonald Lloyd Hines On Twinning All The Way To Bridgewater & The Canso Causeway NS Highways minister Lloyd Hines admits he has been “salivating” over the new 11-kilometre twinned section of the 103 HWY, between Upper Tantallon’s Exit 5 to the...
Lloyd Hines On NS Highway Twinning: ‘Razor Thin Margins On Tenders Shows Healthy Competition’
By Andrew Macdonald As The Notebook recently reported Lloyd Hines NS Transportation department opened a new twinned 11-kilometre route on the 103 HWY, the other week. It is the first twinning on the route in 20-25-years since Halifax-Upper Tantallon was twinned. The...
The Tancooks: The Math: Car Ferry Project Amounts To Taxpayers Paying $165,000 Per Islander
By Andrew Macdonald The Tancooks: The Math: Car Ferry Project Amounts To $165,000 per Islander. The overall cost of the car ferry project announced by the NS Transportation department, clocks in at $33M. The department’s minister, Lloyd Hines tells The Notebook that...
The Tancooks: ‘Let The People Decide – Plebiscite Needed On Car Ferry Plan’ – Says Chester Politico Danielle Barkhouse
By Andrew Macdonald The Tancooks: ‘Let The People Decide - Hold A Plebiscite On Car Ferry Plan’ - Says Chester Politico Danielle Barkhouse Fresh from an 82.7% re-elected vote margin, Village of Chester municipal councillor Danielle Barkhouse, says the 200 residents of...
The Tancooks: Islanders Divided Over Car Ferry: Older Folk Reject $33M Car Ferry Plan; Younger Residents Support The Gov Plan
By Andrew Macdonald The Tancooks: Islanders Divided Over Car Ferry - Older Folk Don’t Want It; Younger Folk Support $33M Gov Plan On Saturday afternoon, I hopped into my car and put on my roving reporter/gumshoe reporter hat, and drove to the Chester-Tancook Ferry...
The Tancooks: Where Oh Where Is MP Bernadette Jordan?…
By Andrew Macdonald The Tancooks: Where Oh Where Is MP Bernadette Jordan? I have issued an all-points Notebook bulletin on the whereabouts of NS South Shore Liberal MP Bernadette Jordan. The reason, she was been largely absent from any comment on the proposed $33M car...
The Tancooks: John Risley: ‘Car Ferry To Islands Dubious Spending Of Taxpayers Dollars’
By Andrew Macdonald For the definitive Island way of life feel, The Notebook called up fishtocrat John Risley. For some 30 years, the co-founder of Clearwater Seafoods has lived the island way of life, first with a residency on East Iron Bound, and now the last few...
In Conversation With Lloyd Hines: The Tancooks Car Ferry To Clock In At $33M
By Andrew Macdonald In Conversation With Lloyd Hines: Tancook Car Ferry To Clock In At $33M As part of my latest news obsession - this time on The Tancooks, I had a 30-minute comprehensive chat with NS Transportation minister, Lloyd Hines. Hines announced the ferry...
Official Government Announcement On The Tancooks Car Ferry Project
As part of my latest news obsession on the Tancooks car ferry news, here is the actual government announcement from the desk of NS Transportation minister, Lloyd Hines: TRANSPORTATION/INFRASTRUCTURE RENEWAL--New Tancook Islands Ferry, Shorter Route Announced...
