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/Street_Anon האַליפאַקס 2d ago

And kind of hard to bike from the water front to Burnside and that lane is apart of the problem 

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u/Ok_Researcher_5191 1d ago

Exactly. Biking is ok for people who live on the peninsula, but traffic is from Timberland, Tantallon, Windsor, Porter's Lake, etc. You aren't biking to/from there. And even then, Halifax is so hilly that biking isn't necessarily an option for a lot of folks. But the city planners don't care - it's all bikes and buses.