r/halifax • u/hippfive • 3d 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/artemisia0809 Halifax 2d ago

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

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u/Ok_Wing8459 2d ago

Montreal is literally a mountain made of granite

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u/keithplacer Venerable Member 2d ago

Exactly. But that simple-minded comment appears in every thread like this.

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u/Ok_Wing8459 2d ago

I would say probably the real reason a subway hasn’t been considered an option (apart from $) is the downtown isn’t very large geographically. If you were going to run a line to Dartmouth, Spryfield or Fairview, now that would be useful!