New era as toll booths come down on Angus L. Macdonald Bridge

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When the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge reopens to postulation connected Monday, determination volition beryllium nary tolls for the archetypal clip successful its 70-year history.

Bridge closed until Monday

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· Posted: Mar 15, 2025 2:57 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

An excavator removes a motion advertizing the outgo of driving crossed the Angus L. MacDonald span connected Friday night

When the Angus L. Macdonald span reopens to postulation connected Monday, determination volition beryllium nary tolls for the archetypal clip successful its 70-year history.

The Halifax span is closed this play for crews to region the toll plaza and hole the span for fare-free traffic.

Tim Houston and his PC enactment campaigned successful 2024 connected a committedness to region tolls from the harbour bridges.

More than 200,000 Nova Scotians person MacPass accounts — the strategy utilized to wage tolls done a transponder — and balances volition beryllium refunded successful the coming weeks.

Construction to region the toll plaza connected the MacKay Bridge volition statesman connected Monday.