[mitchellirons]

I would **love** to see $1bn in development tax credits for the Alderney area of Dartmouth. We are all forgetting that there is already a third crossing of the harbour in the ferry service. Alderney Landing is only a 15-minute ride away from downtown Halifax, and should have been the site of infill and proper urban development long ago.

I'm of the opinion that peninsular Halifax needs more **people** living and working on it as opposed to more people driving in to work there. The HDBC's plan sounds too much like the Chebucto St widening - a proposal developed with the best intentions, but developed by people whose first interests are not development of proper communities but the facilitation of traffic.

If the proposed $1bn cost of a bridge wasn't prohibitive to any approval, I'd have half a mind to send some Jane Jacobs to all of our councillors, MLAs, and **unelected** bridge commissioners. Until then, the point is moot.