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Originally Posted by esquire
However, the trouble with Winnipeg is that adding new river crossings (at least in places where they would make sense) is difficult because there aren't really any open corridors left in the central part of the city where traffic is concentrated, so ottlenecks abound at river crossings and railway underpasses.
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Is it possible to tunnel under the rivers?
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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
Halifax's problem with LRT is that its suburbs are so low density. The downtown core is a dense, urban area, but you exit the pre war built area, and it quickly devolves into low density housing with large tracts of undeveloped forest.
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This is true to some degree but maps are really misleading here. There are huge low-density areas as large as the built up parts of the city but they have small populations and they are no longer being as actively developed. They are not worth serving at all with something like LRT. The inner suburbs on the other hand are getting a lot more development and some of them have similar population densities to the urban core. Most of the new housing construction is multi-unit now.