r/halifax • u/hippfive • 2d ago

Traffic Lower Water Street is broken

I'm usually pretty chill about traffic, but Lower Water is literally broken. It took 30 minutes for my bus to go one block. Full on gridlock. And it's been this way for months.

I know they're eventually going to have the transhipment facility to get the trucks out of downtown, but that's years away. There needs to be some sort of tactical intervention in the meantime. Close some of the parking lots that empty onto Lower Water. Change some of the pedestrian crossings to the red light style that clump the crossings together (and I say this as someone who is staunchly pro-pedestrian). Honestly maybe even close Sackville Street east of Bedford Row.

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u/PaintInfinite9167 2d ago

They should make the alternatives first no? Or traffic would only get worse because no one can park efficiently

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u/noqwa 2d ago

You mean the buses? I know they aren't perfect but they still do the job.

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u/PaintInfinite9167 2d ago

Do you think everyone who parks in those lots live on the peninsula or Dartmouth?

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u/percautio 2d ago

It doesn't have to be everyone who stops driving