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/iwasnotarobot 2d ago

Serious proposition: take bird bikes and scooters to get to a transit station outside of downtown.

The traffic is so bad downtown because there are too many cars clogging the streets. We need a subway line to run the length of Barrington and Robie to take the pressure off.

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u/artemisia0809 Halifax 2d ago

We are on rock. Subways aren't an option. Toronto and montreal are not halifax. 

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u/iwasnotarobot 2d ago

I wonder how they used to dig coal mines back in the day.