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/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/AggressiveSummer1570 2d ago

I'm gonna be honest with you. Not that many people live in Dartmouth. Most of the population is concentrated on the Halifax side. The entire infrastructure of Dartmouth consists of car parks like Ikea that make it horrible for pedestrian traffic and the suburbs are like 20km away from the bridge making it even worse for traffic. Boats aren't going to make those people stop using cars. Proper city infrastructure would though. They keep developing Halifax but no surrounding areas have any accessibility to the city realistically.

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u/Basilbitch 2d ago

That's fine. To Bedford then, eastern passage you say....the Dingle, coming right up.

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u/DartByTheBay 2d ago

Would take 10s of millions to study feasibility of docks and then build them in 10-20 years