It almost seems like there’s construction on every road across the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), and it’s creating headaches for some drivers.
From highways 101 and 102 to Bedford, Sackville and downtown Halifax, road work is creating one-way traffic on some streets and closing others all together.
“Oh, my goodness, it is horrendous. Thank God I work at 4:30 in the morning so I don’t have to deal with it coming to work but leaving through Bedford is a nightmare,” Wendy Ogrady says.
Some of the construction projects around HRM are long-term affairs; others completed in a matter of days.
Motorists say they wish there was more communication about where and when road closures are going to happen.
“Certainly for the longer-term closures or the bigger projects like Cogswell, for example, we tried to give residents as much notice as we can, so often providing several weeks lead time to …