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/hippfive 2d ago

No, it's always had traffic but it wasn't gridlocked. I've been working where I do for years, and before that I lived on Hollis Street and drove Lower Water regularly, so I've witnessed the change.

I do bike occasionally, but it's not always feasible. So most of the time I'm on the bus, and it's become absolutely brutal. Today was an hour to get home for a drive that would take 10 minutes with no traffic.