{"id":9577,"date":"2025-12-18T14:39:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=9577"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:39:29","slug":"new-queens-county-roadwork-part-of-nova-scotias-2-5-billion-highway-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/12\/18\/new-queens-county-roadwork-part-of-nova-scotias-2-5-billion-highway-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"New Queens County roadwork part of Nova Scotia&#8217;s $2.5-billion highway plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7431\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7431\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_4769-2-1024x680.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_4769-2-1024x680.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_4769-2-768x510.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_4769-2-1536x1020.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_4769-2-2048x1360.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nova Scotia government announced its five-year highway plan this week. (File photo by Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Queens County roads are getting some attention in the province\u2019s five-year highway improvement plan, announced this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Queens MLA Kim Masland, who is also Nova Scotia&#8217;s Emergency Management and Natural Resources minister, said the work locally will help with climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOur government is committed to climate-resilient infrastructure,\u201d Masland said in a news release.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cProjects like the shoreline protection on Shore Road are vital to ensuring our roads can withstand future challenges.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The overall $2.5-billion plan to upgrade highways, roads and bridges across Nova Scotia includes an extra $150 million planned for gravel roads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New projects added for Queens include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Construction of shoreline protection on Shore Road in Western Head<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paving 2.3 kilometres of the Long Cove Road in Port Medway from the Port Medway Road easterly to the end of the paved section<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Upgrading 2 km of the gravel section of the Long Cove Road<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Work on 0.75 km of the Ramey Road in Buckfield from Route 210 northerly to the end of the sand seal<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The provincial plan includes more than 160 highway improvement projects across Nova Scotia in the coming year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Construction timelines will depend on planning and tendering.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queens County roads are getting some attention in the province\u2019s five-year highway improvement plan, announced this week. Queens MLA Kim Masland, who is also Nova Scotia&#8217;s Emergency Management and Natural Resources minister, said the work locally will help with climate change. \u201cOur government is committed to climate-resilient infrastructure,\u201d Masland said in a news release.\u00a0 \u201cProjects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[1566,3674,31,1437,238,49,3678,3676,2305,3675,3677,1447],"class_list":["post-9577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-buckfield","tag-highway-improvement-plan","tag-kim-masland","tag-paving","tag-port-medway","tag-queens-county","tag-ramey-road","tag-road-construction","tag-road-work","tag-roads","tag-shore-road","tag-western-head"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9578,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions\/9578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}