YARMOUTH, N.S. — So close and yet so far away.
Motorists who travel Highway 101 on their way to the Hebron Business Park can see their destination less than 500 feet from the highway as they drive past.
If they're heading in the direction of Yarmouth, once they arrive they must navigate a circuitous route to the business park through the north end of town, Dayton and part of Hebron.
In a Dec. 23 letter to Yarmouth Mayor Pam Mood, Yarmouth Warden Leland Anthony requested support for a traffic study by Nova Scotia Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR), with respect to an interchange at the Greenville Road on Highway 101.
The town and municipality of Yarmouth are both committed to attracting a new employer to replace Web.com, which is located in the business park and employs close to 200. The company announced late last year it plans to close its Hebron operation in mid-2020.
“Tenants in the (Hebron Business Park) consistently indicate that a solution to the traffic routing for better access to the park from Highway 101 would significantly improve operational dynamics for them,” says Anthony. “Web.com specifically has stated this several times in the last number of years that an interchange at the Greenville Road would be a welcome solution.”
Anthony points out that Town of Yarmouth traffic volumes on key corridors leading to and through the town are placing significant pressures on local infrastructure.
“This project would serve to alleviate some of that congestion, particularly the heavy truck traffic,” he says.
At its Jan. 22 committee of the whole meeting, the Town of Yarmouth approved a motion to support the traffic study request to TIR. Motions passed at committee of the whole meetings must again be approved at a council meeting.
