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Originally Posted by isaidso
That stretch of Brunswick Street is awful the way it is. It just doesn't work.
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Except, of course, to move vehicle traffic, for which it is still quite useful.
The downtown core cannot aspire to be a carless utopia (which seems to me to be what you'd aim for) at this stage in the city's development. We don't have the transit infrastructure to make that practicable, and probably won't for several decades, since it will only become feasible once the population reaches a certain critical mass. HRM is at that awkward stage of development: big enough to need much better public transit, but not yet big enough to support it.
In the meantime, we still need to allow cars to move around, much as many of us apparently wish it weren't so.