Nova Scotia’s is going to spend about $465 million on its five-year highway plan, released Wednesday, to try to make travelling safer and more efficient.

The province says it will include repaving, bridge replacements, maintenance and other infrastructure work.

Construction will continue on major projects, such as:

• Highway 101 Cambridge interchange and connector (Kings County)
• Highway 101 dike and aboiteaux upgrades (Hants County)
• Highway 101 twinning from Three Miles Plains to Falmouth (Hants County)
  Highway 103 twinning from Exit 6 to Exit 8 (Lunenburg County)
• Highway 104 twinning from Taylors Road to Paqtnkek (Antigonish County)
• Highway 107 twinning from Burnside to Lake Loon (Halifax Regional Municipality)
• Seal Island Bridge rehabilitation (Victoria County)
• Trunk 4 active transportation corridor conversion (Antigonish County)
• Tancook ferry infrastructure upgrades (Lunenburg County).

“Since taking office, this government has invested roughly $2.5 billion in our five-year plans,” said Minister Tilley. “Safe, dependable and affordable transportation infrastructure is essential for the future prosperity of our province. It makes it possible for us to get to work, go to school, attend medical appointments and it is the way we ship our products to the rest of the world and grow our economy.”

The plan is to advance more than 160 highway improvement projects over the coming year.

More than 6,000 direct and 3,000 indirect jobs are created in the road-building industry every year.