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Originally Posted by someone123
Newer car technology is coming but having a good transit system will remain a huge advantage for the foreseeable future. Even if everybody switches to hybrid cars, transit will still be more efficient and therefore cheaper. It's very popular in cities that have reliable trains running at a decent frequency. Haligonians think they don't like transit but really they don't like standing on a bus in slow traffic. Nobody does.
Part of the problem here is that transit improvements are an order of magnitude too small for the city. For some reason it is reasonable to contemplate billion dollar highway plans in Halifax but a $10M transit terminal in Dartmouth causes years of waffling.
Now is absolutely the time to be looking at things like LRT, streetcars, and dedicated busways.
As I've said, I'm not against the Bayers widening but it should be turned into an opportunity to add transit-only lanes. HOV lanes are another possibility.
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For sure... I was just implying that peole are still going to drive cars and we are still going to have to grow and maintain car infrastructure. Plenty of people still drive cars in europe, and northern europe still spends on both car and public transit infrastructure.
Hell, when I lived in europe every city had massive, multi-lane ring roads AND buses, trams, and LRT. Now that's a transportation network.
We can't ignore the fact that bicycles aren't the be all and end all, and don't make that much sense in a city with such a big footprint. I live on the peninsula, and so do these councillors... but we have to think about everybody here... especially when they are anti-height, how are we going to reach the densities to make everything sustainable? Its all mindboggling to me how they can contradict themselves so much. These people seem to be oblivious to this.