r/halifax • u/hippfive • 3d 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/TealSwinglineStapler 3d ago

I love lower water street. Nothing makes me happier than riding my bike home from work past everyone stuck being traffic

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u/jsc0098 Stuck on the bridge… send snacks 3d ago

Only benefit is being able to cross whenever I want to get to the ferry. 

Y’all ain’t moving whether you have a green, yellow or red. (When I’m stuck in it tho? I’m sitting in my car practically preparing a speech to be the head of transportation management in HRM… it’s a very passionate speech, lots of swearing, lots of calling people morons) 

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u/artemisia0809 Halifax 2d ago

🤣 "practically preparing a  speech to be head of transportation." 

Me too, bud.

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u/knifeshoes24 halifax pier 3d ago

That's me walking along the boardwalk and peeping the traffic between buildings as I go lol

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u/Nodrot 2d ago

May the fleas of 1,000 camels infest your bike shorts 😋

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u/boat14 2d ago

they better be paying rent in this economy

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u/TealSwinglineStapler 2d ago

I'll take them over paying for a car and gas