News Release Archive

TRANSPORTATION/PUBLIC WORKS--Snow Closes Trans-Canada
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The Trans-Canada Highway 104 at the Tantramar Marsh near the Nova
Scotia-New Brunswick border has been closed because of heavy snow
and dangerous driving conditions.

Plows have been dispatched to clear the 104 from Springhill to
Amherst and Cobequid Pass about five kilometres west of the toll
booth. Both stretches are blocked by vehicles.

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Contact: Chris Welner
         Transportation and Public Works
         902-424-8687
         E-mail: welnerch@gov.ns.ca

ngr                  Nov. 27, 1997                4:20 p.m.