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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe
I doubt Halifax will get rail transit before it hits 1 million people. It isn't that it isn't needed, but the people just don't want it yet.
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I think the biggest problem for rail in Halifax is that the geography is somewhat complicated and there's no single route that would be a "silver bullet" for the transportation network that could justify capital investment in the $1B range.
The latest transit plan is good evidence of this. 4 different BRT routes and 6 ferry routes. BRT didn't even really work for the connection to Bedford, and the peninsula in this plan has unavoidably complicated coverage to serve downtown, the universities, hospitals, North End and naval base/shipyard, etc.
ION in Kitchener-Waterloo neatly connects up major hubs in the metro area with 1 line. There's no such route for metro Halifax.