Trudeau announces $90-million contribution to twin deadly Nova Scotia highway
SUTHERLANDS RIVER, N.S. — It’s been called a 38-kilometre death trap, a treacherous stretch of Nova Scotia highway that in the last decade has seen hundreds of accidents, multiple fatalities and desperate pleas for help from residents.
Many hope those calls were answered Tuesday with a $90-million funding commitment from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, which along with $195 million from the province will go towards twinning the busy thoroughfare that cuts through the province’s north leading to Cape Breton.
The Pictou County community has fought for years to get improvements for Highway 104, with local fire Chief Joe MacDonald leading the charge.
He’s lost family along the hazardous roadway and has been on the scene of gruesome motor vehicle accidents more times than he can count.