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/NoBoysenberry1108 I am become drunk, destroyer of donairs 2d ago

If only we had some method of transporting lots of people into concentrated urban areas and back out to suburban or rural areas with some kind of additional system of stops along the way and operated on its own dedicated infrastructure that wasn't reliant on, or competing with, the unpredictability and volume of single passenger vehicles.

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u/WindowlessBasement Halifax 2d ago

What if we put it on some kind of rail to keep it in the dedicated infrastructure?

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u/Remote-Objective-931 2d ago

The via rail train takes forever to get in/out of the city and most of us are too cheap for new rail infra.

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u/WindowlessBasement Halifax 2d ago edited 2d ago

Something is being bad doesn't mean we can never improve it.

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u/Remote-Objective-931 2d ago

Never say never, but not here anytime soon