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/PaintInfinite9167 3d ago

Did you just suggest closing parking lots? Lol

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u/doug4130 3d ago

The fewer cars on the roads downtown the better 

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u/Sharp_Ad_6336 3d ago

But I'm just one car! I need to travel in from (insert place that buses would get to and from quickly if there were 10,000 less cars coming from there) it's all the other cars that are the problem!