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Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue
I guess I said it a bit offhandedly, “Oh look, in N.S., they twin and grade-separate too. Learn from that, B.C.!” Yea I knew that N.S.-104 was already a super-2 to start and that B.C.-1 wasn’t.
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NS has much better highway infrastructure than BC if you compare similar areas. NS has a number of sparsely populated rural areas and small towns served by divided highways and interchanges.
The most comparable part of BC to NS is Vancouver Island. Vancouver Island has very little real highway, with the main highway into Victoria dropping down to 1 lane each way. Up around Nanaimo the highway has some regular intersections. Some of this has to do with environmental restrictions and difficulty of construction in mountainous areas but not all of it.
I don't have statistics but I'd guess metro Vancouver has 2-3x the highway infrastructure of metro Halifax with 5-6x the population. The biggest highways in both metro Halifax and Vancouver have 10-lane stretches I think (111 and Cape Horn area). (This isn't a cheerleader thing, just an illustration.)