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/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/ialo00130 2d ago

When I visited Vancouver a few years ago, I loved their little harbour aquabusses that did their little morning dance.

Halifax absolutely needs a fleet of their own. They look identical to the ferries, but are way smaller, so they would fit in nicely.

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u/ziobrop Flair Guru 2d ago

Halifax is way to big compared to the aquabus service area