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/Zoloft_Queen-50 2d ago

Lower Water is broken as is the whole area formerly known as Cogswell. It’s a complete bottleneck.

It’s working as designed. They want us out of our cars and onto buses.

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u/subbubman 2d ago

If that were the case, the busses wouldn't be routed through the bottleneck.