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Originally Posted by ScovaNotian
I would think that Kingswood benefits the least from this. On the contrary, it would put a number of nice and quiet homes in Kingswood adjacent to a freeway. The highway is useful only for people travelling the 102 and heading for the South Shore (or at least Tantallon) or the other way around.
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The highway would cut traffic levels on the route to and from Kingswood, the 213:
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The only alternative is the Hammonds Plains Road (Route 213); through truck traffic is prohibited there. Traffic Volumes on Hammonds Plains Road are in the area of 12000-15000 vehicles per day.
To reduce the travel time for trucks and others, a 10-km long, 100-series highway connection (Highway 113) from Highway 103 near the Sheldrake Lake Interchange (Exit 4) to Highway 102 near the Hammonds Plains Road Interchange (Exit 3) is proposed. This would reduce the travel distance from Highway 103 to Highway 102 by approximately 13 km, a travel time savings of 8 to 10 minutes.
Highway 113 would also significantly reduce through non-truck traffic on Hammonds Plains Road. It's estimated the proposed highway would reduce traffic there by approximately 3500 to 5500 vehicles per day (at today's volumes).
In addition, an interchange at Kearney Lake Road would improve access to the 100-series highway network and meet the anticipated needs of expanding development in the area.
http://www.kingswood.ca/community/113.html
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There is only one street in Kingswood that you might consider to be next to the alignment, and even then the houses are 150-350 metres away from it.
http://gov.ns.ca/nse/ea/highway113/H..._Alignment.pdf