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Originally Posted by isaidso
It's very pleasing to see the changes in my hometown. High rises at Rosie and Young? Mid-rises on Gottingen? Still decades in the future, but one can now envision the day when the entire peninsula gets built out. It may take till ~2050 for it to start coming together though.
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Halifax is kind of decentralized and has a lot of older originally pedestrian oriented urban fabric that became a bit too low density for much mixed use in the 20th century, so I feel like it's getting a big bang for the buck with infill. The infill does things like bringing back shops in old Victorian buildings or stitching together downtown with the universities and dockyard.
Increasingly it seems like the missing piece is transit. The city didn't really need anything in the 90's or 2000's but now is the time to plan LRT, streetcars, or something similar. There is sort of a BRT system but the amount of investment in it is tiny; during a time when the city adds 10k people the municipality builds just a few more blocks of bus lane.