{{short description|Road in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada}} {{Infobox road |province=NS |name=Dunbrack Street |alternate_name=North West Arm Drive |allocation={{jct|state=NS|Trunk|32|nolink=yes}} |maint=Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal |map= |length_km=9.2 |length_round=1 |length_ref=<ref name="gmaps">{{google maps|title=Dunbreck Street - Halifax, NS |url=https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6479386,-63.6470993,13.83z |access-date=March 3, 2020}}</ref> |length_notes=Northwest Arm Drive {{cvt|4.6|km}} |established= |municipalities=Halifax Regional Municipality |direction_a=South |direction_b=North |terminus_a=Kearney Lake Road |junction=Main Avenue<br/>{{jct|state=NS|Trunk|3}}<br/>{{jct|state=NS|Hwy|102}} |terminus_b={{jct|state=NS|Route|306}} |previous_type=Trunk |previous_route=30 |next_type=Trunk |next_route=33 }} '''Dunbrack Street''' is a {{cvt|9.2|km}}<ref name="gmaps"/> arterial road in Mainland Halifax, Nova Scotia. It runs from Route 306 (Old Sambro Road) in Spryfield to Kearney Lake Road in Rockingham. Prior to 2019, Dunbrack Street ran from Kearney Lake Road in Rockingham to Main Avenue in Fairview. The remaining section was named Northwest Arm Drive.<ref name=rename>{{cite news |last1=Groff |first1=Meghan |title=North West Arm Drive to be officially renamed Monday |url=https://www.halifaxtoday.ca/local-news/north-west-arm-drive-to-be-officially-renamed-monday-1391395 |access-date=February 27, 2020 |work=Halifax Today |date=April 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227180152/https://www.halifaxtoday.ca/local-news/north-west-arm-drive-to-be-officially-renamed-monday-1391395 |archive-date=February 27, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> The former Northwest Arm section is assigned '''Trunk 32''' by the provincial transportation department as an unsigned highway.<ref name=traffic>{{cite web |last1=Traffic Engineering and Road Safety - Census Team |title=Traffic Volumes - Primary Highway System - 2008 to 2017 |url=https://novascotia.ca/tran/publications/Primary_Roads_-_Traffic_Volume_Data.pdf |website=Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal |publisher=Government of Nova Scotia |access-date=February 26, 2020 |location=Halifax, NS |date=2018 |quote=Note...Northwest Arm Dr is referred to as Trunk 32. |pages=Intro; 93-94}}</ref>
Dunbrack Street is named for Roy Dunbrack, who was a surveyor for the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dunbrack Street rose bushes may stick around for good |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/article/dunbrack-street-rose-bushes-may-stick-around-for-good/ |access-date=March 15, 2020 |work=CTV Atlantic |publisher=CTV Atlantic |date=July 20, 2019 |language=en}}</ref> The Halifax Dunbrack Soccer Club is named after the street.<ref>{{cite web |title=Who We Are |url=https://www.dunbrack.ca/who-we-are |website=Halifax Dunbrack Soccer Club |access-date=13 March 2023 |language=en-CA}}</ref>
==Northwest Arm Drive== The '''North West Arm Drive''' was a {{cvt|4.6|km}}<ref name="gmaps"/> four-lane expressway in Halifax that ran from Main Avenue connecting Fairview to Route 306 (Old Sambro Road), connecting to Highway 102 and Trunk 3. The highway was a stub of the incomplete "Harbour Drive" project which would have connected Highway 102 with the Halifax waterfront, via a bridge over the Northwest Arm and a 6-lane highway through the south end along Water Street and along Barrington past Cogswell.<ref name="cogswell">{{cite news |last1=Bousquet |first1=Tim |title=Concrete jungle |url=https://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/concrete-jungle/Content?oid=960400 |access-date=June 1, 2012 |work=The Coast Halifax |date=March 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407203826/http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/concrete-jungle/Content?oid=960400 |archive-date=April 7, 2016 |language=en}}</ref> The project was cancelled in the 1970s in the wake of public opposition, but not before North West Arm Drive and the Cogswell Street Interchange were completed.<ref name="cogswell"/> On April 29, 2019, the Halifax Regional Municipality renamed it to Dunbrack Street.<ref name=rename/>
==History== Construction of North West Arm Drive by the provincial Department of Highways began in 1975/76.<ref>{{cite book |title=Annual report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1976 |date=1976 |publisher=Nova Scotia Department of Highways |location=Halifax |page=10 |quote=Other major construction projects included a start of the Portland Street Interchange in Dartmouth and North West Arm Drive in Halifax.}}</ref> Work on the four-lane road, stretching from Dunbrack Street to the Old Sambro Road, was completed in 1977/78.<ref name="1978annualreport">{{cite book |title=Annual report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1978 |date=1978 |publisher=Nova Scotia Department of Highways |location=Halifax |page=10}}</ref>
==Major intersections== {{NSinttop|exit|indep_city=Halifax|length_ref=<ref name="gmaps"/>}} {{NSint|exit |km=0.0 |road={{jct|state=NS|Route|306|Route|349|name1=Old Sambro Road|to2=yes|city1=Herring Cove|city2=Sambro|city3=Harrietsfield|city4=Williamswood}} |notes=Dunbrack Street (Northwest Arm Drive) / Trunk 32 southern terminus<ref name=traffic/> }} {{NSint|exit |km=0.4 |road=Cowie Hill Road |notes= }} {{NSint|exit |km=1.3 |road=Bayview Road |notes= }} {{NSint|exit |km=1.0 |road=Peter Saulnier Drive |notes= }} {{NSint|exit |km=1.6 |road=Osborne Street |notes= }} {{NSint|exit |km=2.3 |road={{jct|state=NS|Trunk|3|Hwy|103|to2=yes|road|Albert Walker Street / Walter Havill Drive|city1=Peggys Cove|city2=Timberlea|city3=Armdale}} |notes=Partially grade separated connection to Trunk 3 }} {{NSint|exit |exit=1K/H |km=3.7 |road={{jct|state=NS|Hwy|102|road|Bayers Road|location1=Downtown|location2=Airport|city3=Windsor|city4=Truro|extra=airport}} |notes=Signed as exit 1K (south) and 1H (north); Hwy 102 exit 1D }} {{NSint|exit |km=4.2 |road=Washmill Lake Drive |notes= }} {{NSint|exit |type=trans |km=4.6 |road=Main Avenue |notes=Former northern terminus of Northwest Arm Drive; Trunk 32 northern terminus<ref name=traffic/> }} {{NSint|exit |km=5.1 |road=Willett Street |notes= }} {{NSint|exit |km=5.9 |road=Lacewood Drive |notes= }} {{NSint|exit |km=4.6 |road=Radcliffe Drive / Lincoln Cross |notes= }} {{NSint|exit |km=6.9 |road=Langbrae Drive / Knightsbridge Drive |notes= }} {{NSint|exit |km=7.3 |road=Farnham Gate Road / Ruth Goldbloom Drive |notes= }} {{NSint|exit |km=8.3 |road={{jctname|state=NS|Trunk|2|name1=Kearney Lake Road to Bedford Highway|road|Donaldson Avenue}} |notes=Dunbrack Street northern terminus; continues as Kearney Lake Road }} {{NSint|exit |type=closed |km=9.2 |road={{jct|state=NS|Hwy|102|city1=Halifax|city2=Bedford|location3=Airport|city4=Truro|extra=airport}}<hr/>Kearney Lake Road |notes=Kearney Lake Road continues north; Hwy 102 exit 2 }} {{jctbtm|exit|keys=closed,trans}}
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Roads in the Halifax Regional Municipality}} {{NS Roads and Highways}}
Category:Roads in Halifax, Nova Scotia Category:Nova Scotia provincial highways