Flooding on the Bedford Highway has shut the road down to traffic.The road is closed inbound at Flamingo Drive and outbound at Bayview Road. Halifax Transit routes 16, 18, 80, 81, 90 — which run along the Bedford Highway — are all being detoured up Bayview Drive, through Clayton Park (Lacewood, to Dunbrack, Knightsridge Drive), back down Flamingo and then back onto the Bedford Highway.Halifax Regional Police say Halifax Water is at the scene trying to address the issue. CBC reporter Preston Mulligan says there is 60 centimetres of water and manholes are popped.

Flooding on the Bedford Highway has shut the road down to traffic.

The road is closed inbound at Flamingo Drive and outbound at Bayview Road.

Halifax Transit routes 16, 18, 80, 81, 90 — which run along the Bedford Highway — are all being detoured up Bayview Drive, through Clayton Park (Lacewood, to Dunbrack, Knightsridge Drive), back down Flamingo and then back onto the Bedford Highway.

Halifax Regional Police say Halifax Water is at the scene trying to address the issue.

CBC reporter Preston Mulligan says there is 60 centimetres of water and manholes are popped.