From the point of view of self-interested taxpayers a new bridge is perhaps the best kind of transportation investment possible since so much of it can be financed through tolls. Those who take the new bridge will be paying for it while those who do not will not. It's the same as with the bridges that exist today.
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Either way a 1.1b dollar bridge is rather obscene. Are they going to install the rail too? Vancouver gets multi-billions of highway and elevated rail improvements, and we get a billion dollar bridge. I bet you, the ferrys and buses, you could buy with that money would move more people than a 6 lane bridge.
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Well Vancouver has many bridges as well, including major new bridges under construction. It is also about five times larger than Halifax.
Ferries and buses are useful for some things but they're just not the same class of infrastructure. Buses will be using the new bridge for example, along with commercial traffic that is not served by transit.
"Bridge or transit" is really the wrong way to be looking at this.