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Originally Posted by someone123
I don't know if it's changing but it never seemed there was much sense of urgency to planning in Halifax. Politicians and staff alike tended to take a leisurely approach to everything and the excuse used was that Halifax was just a small city that wasn't really growing much so none of it mattered. But the city grew by 8,000 people last year, and its traffic is already not great. There has been no substantial improvement to transit either. Either there is going to have to be some more ambitious infrastructure development or the city is going to waste a lot of its potential.
This already happened a lot as you say with all the development that went to areas like Bedford and Hammonds Plains.
Could the lack of growth in bridge traffic be due to the fact that they've been at capacity for a while now at rush hour? If they were closed tomorrow they'd have 0 traffic, but that wouldn't be a good argument for why the city doesn't need bridges.
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the bridges arnt at capacity though. they carried more traffic in the 90's and early 2000's they they do now iirc.
Edit - i found it. in 2015/16 33million trips. 2.3% increase from 2007/08. Capacity is 38million trips.
that is basically flat growth, and will take another 50 years at that rate to reach capacity.