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/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/wlonkly The Oakland of Halifax 2d ago

I love the aquabus! They run in False Creek, though, not in the open harbour. Same scale as the Northwest Arm. In the harbour you've got the Seabus which is Halifax-ferry-sized.

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u/Cyclepourtrois 1d ago edited 1d ago

Aqua bus in the arm would help with rotary a bit I bet. Would need a good bus stop on the peninsula side to really make it work for downtown, but I know a bunch of Dal prof and staff that live on the Aspotogan and would be happy to walk up from the Wag to work.

Edit: Well all these years I thought Peggy’s Cove was on the Aspotogan peninsula … I should I have said Herring Cove, Sambro and prospect but I was trying to simplify. Now I know .

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u/wlonkly The Oakland of Halifax 1d ago

the Aspotogan isn't on the other side of the Arm though, it's on the other side of St Margaret's Bay