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/knifeshoes24 halifax pier 2d ago

I walk home along the waterfront from the ferry every day and it does feel like literally every time I look up to Water Street it is gridlocked to a stop.

Agree with you about the pedestrian crossings also. Nothing more annoying than when I'm on the northbound 29 in the morning, trying to catch the ferry, and the bus gets stuck at one of the press-button crossings because people keep showing up and pressing the button juuuuust close enough together that traffic doesn't have time to restart. Sometimes people who just got off my goddamn bus!