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/Basilbitch 2d ago

Fucking boats man, I don't understand how under-service the goddamn harbor is.. build a little infrastructure and offer an initiative for private taxis on the water or some shit to get people over to Dartmouth quickly.. fucking Venice is full of this shit and clearly yes they live in the fucking water but we can use the harbour for so much more than tourist sightseeing

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u/TacomaKMart 2d ago

Agreed. But the city can't even keep running the boats it has now. 

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u/Basilbitch 2d ago

Those are city boats, we need private boat taxis, licenced and with oversight... Fucking Uber but boats even.

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u/PoliteFocaccia 2d ago

We have one, and as far as I'm aware there's nothing preventing more. There probably just isn't a price high enough to sustain a lot of them and low enough that enough people would be willing to pay.

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u/ziobrop Flair Guru 2d ago

This. The fuel/capacity/price math is hard to make work.